Occupational Therapist

Job Description

Job Title : Occupational Therapist
Job Category : Social Care Qualified
Location : Badminton Road Council Offices, South Gloucestershire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £24.38

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* This is an essential OT role within Adult Social Care, where you will be responsible for carrying out OT assessments needs and providing advice and guidance to our service users. You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, health and the voluntary sector, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective, and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
* You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision and respond to changes need. This includes, develop, and evaluate reablement programs as part of care packages ensuring that programs to support independence are implemented.
* You will be responsible for managing your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
* You will raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments and complete safe methods of work practice guides, in order to ensure that needs are assessed, and appropriate action is taken.

Full clean driver’s licence and access to a car (or able to use another appropriate means of travel) to travel to a range of locations including home visits.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
1. You will hold or be working towards a professional qualification e.g. degree, NVQ 4 or equivalent
2. You will have relevant experience of working in similar service areas.
3. You will demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, processes and procedures.
4. If relevant: you will have a proven ability to supervise and allocate work to others, monitoring their performance and taking corrective action.
5. You will have well developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues and service users.
6. You will have financial experience or training to carry out associated financial tasks.
7. You will have a good level of general IT skills and the ability to use, or be trained in the use of, appropriate specialist in-house software packages.
Able to demonstrate the Council’s values and behaviours.