Occupational Therapist – Learning Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Gloucester

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £26 – £30 per hour (assignment rate)

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:

• The post holder will work across all areas of the integrated community locality teams working within the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Team.
• Positive behaviour support (PBS) is a person-centred approach for providing long-term support to people with learning disabilities and autism, including those with mental health conditions, who display, or may be at risk of developing, behaviours of concern (also referred to as behaviours that challenge or challenging behaviour). 
• Use core rehabilitation skills along with a health coaching approach, in line with professional standards.
• To create, review and amend patient centred goal plans, within a positive behavioural support framework, thus enabling independence, improvements in quality of life and reductions in behaviours described as challenging.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

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

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.