Occupational Therapist

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for an Occupational Therapist on a 6 months contract initially with a possibility of further extension.

The primary purpose of the role is to:

• Contribute to the delivery of an effective Adult social care service as part of a social care team, improving outcomes for People and Carers.
• Carry out high quality holistic assessments, using strengths based, person centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for people and carers.
• Provide a person-centred, asset based interventions to enable people to optimise and maximise their abilities, by utilising a strengths based approach.
• Manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs and risk assessments, care planning and safeguarding investigations.
• Undertake the legal and statutory duties of the post as required by the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and any other relevant legislation. You will also undertake and develop the role in line with any new requirements such as undertaking assessment in line with responsibilities under liberty protection safeguards.
• Have a good understanding of the legal social care framework and all relevant policies and procedures.
• Develop service and practice improvements.

Requirements:

• Professional occupational therapy qualification as recognised by the HCPC
• Current HCPC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development

If this sounds good to you, please apply for immediate contact or call us directly.