Occupational Therapist – Access and Independence Service

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: Haringey

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £39.01 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:

• To be a key member of the Access and Independence Service, working with Haringey residents to encourage independence and integration for residents across the borough, in line with the Adult Social Care vision.
• To support your team managers to deliver a high-quality service, in order to improve outcomes of residents across the borough.
• To act in line with the Haringey values; Human, Ambitious, Accountable and Professional
• To provide professional supervision to Occupational Therapy Assistants and students
• To provide an initial assessment of service users with complex care and therapy needs across the teams within the Access and Independence Service: First Response, Reablement and the Assessment Service
• Support service users to set client centred goals to promote independence and in the home environment wellbeing
• Assessment and provision of equipment to improve independence with activities of daily living.
• Assessment for major/minor adaptations (including completing accurate specifications) to home environment to enable independence and reduce risk of injury.
• Manual handling assessment to reduce risk of injury to service users and carers and where feasible reduce packages of care for single handed care.
• To support the duty manager to triage referrals to in order to ensure that the appropriate pathways into Adult Social Care are identified.
• To provide urgent home visits when required, either to facilitate timely discharges from hospital or following functional deterioration of service users in the community.
• To identify long term care needs when required, considering alternative services that can meet service user’s care and support needs, and to present costings to weekly Care Authorisation Panel

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

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Reece Golding; 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.