Occupational Therapist – Home Environment Assessment & Response Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role in a Home Environment Assessment & Response Team (HEART).

Location: Warwickshire

Contract Type: Locum Ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £25-£32 per hour (assignment rate)

Either full or part-time

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Occupational Therapist:

• Work under the guidance of Senior Occupational Therapists to promote People’s independence in line with relevant legislation
• The HEART Service is an exciting and rapidly expanding collaborative service and is at the forefront of the preventative and early intervention agenda for Councils and discharge pathway with Health.
• It’s purpose is to enable customers and their carers to live as independently as possible by providing practical solutions that enable customers to remain living in their homes as safely and independently as possible.
• The post requires an Occupational Therapist who is motivated and wants to work in a multi-agency environment, willing to undertake assessment of needs as directed by the Senior Occupational Therapist.
• Have knowledge of range of services available to people with disabilities and advise them and/or their carers as appropriate.
• Have a knowledge of assistive technology, equipment and appropriate compensatory techniques to enable customers to maximise their independence in all aspects of daily living in their home environment.
• The role will involve carrying out functional, risk and standardised assessments, developing support plans with customers and carers, undertaking review assessments for OT colleagues and being outcome focused.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC
• Car driver

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ruben Mota; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.