Occupational Therapist

Liquid Personnel is currently looking for an Experienced Occupational Therapist to join our client’s team in Southwark.

Due to the nature of this role, our client requires an Occupational Therapist who has post qualified experience in a similar role.
 
Benefits of Occupational Therapist role:

• Hybrid working available
• Manageable caseloads
• £33.95 per hour
• Excellent training and development opportunities

 
Your duties as an Occupational Therapist:

• To visit people with a disability at home or in their permanent residence to carry out occupational therapy assessments. This will include the use of appropriate assessment and intervention tools that support best practice and capture the physical and social care needs. Such as daily living skills, carer support, social situation, and environmental barriers.
• To promote access to paid employment, training, rehabilitation, social and leisure opportunities as part of promoting each person’s independence and social inclusion, and to work with local and community groups to make them welcoming and accessible
• To ensure that family and paid carers can offer personal carer safely through assessing manual handling, use of equipment to improve safety and giving advice and guidance to family carers and pad care supervisors.
• To determine necessary adaptations to client’s homes and arrange or these to be carried out in liaison with professionals from a range of disciplines. To advise clients who are having alternations done privately.
• To monitor and respond to clients’ needs in changing circumstances, including anticipating and responding to the effects of certain degenerative medical conditions.

 
Further requirements:

To supervise Assistant Practitioners or students, including students of other disciplines as required and to teach professional skills to relevant departmental staff an external professional as required.
 
Essential requirements of this Occupational Therapist role:

To ensure that any information or signposting is clear and consistent with policy and to be shared with person in need and family members as appropriate.  To be able to proactively engage the person with what the next steps are on the customer journey. They will take a whole family approach to child protection to keep more children safely at home with their families you will also be required to have the legal right to work in the UK.
 
 
 
 
Why work with Liquid?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive criminal justice knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of probation work positions across the UK

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“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*

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Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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