Occupational Therapist

Job Description

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: £26.15

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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.

This role is the majority of the time is office base with community travel, with the some homeworking.

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.

Key Responsibilities
Carry out assessment of needs, providing advice and guidance to service users and their carers, in order to establish care plans where appropriate, ensuring that services are effective and meet legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
Review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision, responding to changing needs and renegotiating service provision where appropriate.
Manage own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
If relevant: supervise a small team on a day to day basis including allocations of casework, giving guidance, advice and feedback, ensuring that clear organisation and direction is provided and that all team members receive training support and development opportunities.
Support the delivery of designated areas of work by coordinating day to day operations and contributing to developing projects and processes.
Raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments where appropriate, in order to ensure that needs are assessed and appropriate action is taken.
Develop and evaluate reablement programmes as part of care packages ensuring that programmes to support independence are implemented.
Liaise and work with contacts from different sectors, including health and the voluntary sector, sometimes as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
Complete and present records and reports in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
Take necessary action in accordance with Safeguarding procedures in order to protect vulnerable people.

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.
8. Able to demonstrate the Council’s values and behaviours.

Essential
Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent. (KSE1)
Registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC). (KSE1)
Experience of working with a broad range of people including , disabled people, families, partners in a social care setting and providing solutions including, reablement, rehabilitation, Telecare, equipment and adaptations. (KSE2,5)
Demonstrate good understanding of disability on activities of daily living (KSE2)Experience of, or be prepared to work in accordance with the Councils Safeguarding policies and procedures (KSE3)
Evidence of on-going continuous professional development and knowledge of current legislation and practice relating to social care. KSE1,3)
IT skills to use client data system (with training if needed), and common software packages e.g word, outlook (KSE7)
Have good interpersonal skills, be able to carry out good quality assessments and outcome focused plans and communicate findings and risks to service users, families, carers and keep detailed and accurate records. (KSE3,5)
Full clean drivers licence and assess to a car (or able to use another appropriate means of travel) to travel to a range of locations including home visits.
Desirable
Considerable post qualifying experience (KSE2)
Some skills or experience in supervising and mentoring others (KSE4)
Qualified Best Interest Assessor (KSE1)
Experience of working with complex cases (KSE2)
Experience of working across other organisations i.e. health, third sector (KSE2)