Job Description

Occupational Therapist
Location: Wolverhampton

Job Purpose:

To take a lead responsibility for some complex assessments and undertake other complex assessments jointly with Community Care Assessors or Social Workers.

To offer specialist advice to the team on clients’ functional, psychological and physical abilities using own professional knowledge base.

To take responsibility to ensure that appropriate parts of service packages (eg equipment and adaptations) are processed and monitored, in liaison with other departments.

To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal.

To undertake assessments and write reablement plans, monitor outcomes and provide professional support to reablement workers

Principle/Main Responsibilities & Tasks:

Clinical:

To be responsible for allocating O.T. referrals that are made by the area team and give advice to the team regarding matters related to Occupational therapy.

To provide specialist assessments and programmes of care in liaison with multi-disciplinary teams.

To provide specialist moving and handling assessments and make provision for training and equipment, as appropriate.

To ensure that any necessary assessments and provision of equipment and adaptations are carried out, in accordance with the local authority policy and advise the Head O.T. of any inability to fulfil commitments.

To provide assessments and treatment of a rehabilitative nature, where appropriate.

To provide O.T. advice and support to other agencies, relatives and informal carers.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations and optimise functional ability and the ability to live in the community.

To carry out specialist assessments for the team to facilitate appropriate placements.

To assist with resettlement into the community from residential homes and out of area hospitals.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
An easy registration process (all done online)
Referral schemes and incentives
Ongoing compliance managed for you
Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

For more information please contact me on Taylor.johnson@pprsocialcare.co.uk or 07813 347 703

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