Locum Social Services Occupational Therapist

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Services Occupational Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role in Solihull within a reablement setting.

Location: Solihull

Contract Type: Locum, Ongoing and full-time

Occupational Therapist Pay Rate: £34 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 Social Services Occupational Therapist:

• To be responsible for providing specialist occupational therapy support to staff, people, formal and informal carers. To participate in project work and to be responsible for a range of liaison functions.
• Make individual home visits to assess people’s needs in accordance with current legislation and anti-discriminatory practice, promoting a strengths based approach and ensuring demonstrable person-centred outcomes.
• To identify and engage with positive risk-taking to enable people to achieve their full potential to reach their chosen goals, participate fully in life. To be responsible for supporting mental capacity and/or best interest decisions, subject to legal and ethical parameters.
• Organising any necessary property adaptations with the appropriate involvement of other agencies and to recommend, design and monitor the process for the provision of adaptations.

Requirements of the Social Services Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent experience within social services / local authority / council
• Registered with the HCPC
• Car driver essential
• Experience working within a reablement setting is ideal

Contact:

This Social Services 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 as well as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS Occupational Therapists applications are also welcome as we have vacancies available within the NHS.

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.