Occupational Therapist – Social Care Team

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

Location: Midsomer Norton

Contract Type: Ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £24 – £28 per hour (assignment rate – depending on experience)

Shift Pattern: Full time, will accept 4 days. 37.5 hours per week. Monday – Friday, 08:30 am – 16:30 pm. 

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:

• Work across B&NES to visit service users in their own homes
• Undertake moving and handling risk assessments and arrange delivery and demonstration of moving and handling equipment
• Provide moving and handling plans and recommendations to ensure the safety of service users and carers
• Complete general occupational therapy assessments
• Arrange for the provision of equipment that will meet service user needs and to give instructions on the use of the equipment to the individual and carers
• Undertake assessments for minor and major home adaptations and provide recommendations predominantly through the Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) process
• Produce occupational therapy housing reports for service users when re-housing is necessary

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC
• An experienced Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist who has a proven background in complex moving and handling, assessment and provision of equipment and minor and major adaptations work (DFGs)
• Car driver

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ray Deb; 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.