Job Title: Occupational Therapist – Leeds
Location: Leeds
Pay Rate: £19.20 per hour
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:00 and 10:00 – 18:00
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an Occupational Therapist based in Leeds to join a respected client. This role offers the opportunity to become part of a committed team of nine Occupational Therapists, working collaboratively with professionals across Health and Social Care, including Physiotherapists, Nurses, and care staff. The team plays a vital role in supporting individuals who are not yet ready to return home following a hospital stay, with a strong focus on promoting independence and facilitating their transition back to their own homes. The Recovery Hubs are fostering a rehabilitation-focused environment, underpinned by a 24-hour therapeutic approach.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will conduct comprehensive Occupational Therapy (OT) assessments with a strength-based, personalized approach. You will develop and implement goal-led outcome planning, work alongside support workers to ensure individuals achieve their outcomes, and regularly review progress. Additionally, you will lead discharge planning for individuals returning to their homes, perform moving and handling assessments, including risk assessments, and identify solutions to reduce risk. You will provide professional supervision and line management under a Disability Team Manager, shape and develop the service, support student education, supervise new graduate Occupational Therapists, maintain up-to-date case notes and records, and participate in training and development activities to ensure continuous professional development (CPD).
Requirements:
- Degree/diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Proven assessment skills and experience in a range of needs.
- Skills in moving and handling, including risk assessment.
- Ability to work within legislative frameworks and make recommendations for complex adaptations.
- Commitment to CPD, with half a day a month dedicated to professional development.
Core Responsibilities:
- Undertake complex Occupational Therapy and reablement assessments.
- Manage an allocated caseload, regularly monitoring and reviewing service user needs.
- Provide specialist services to remove barriers to social inclusion.
- Deliver, fit, and collect equipment as appropriate.
- Provide practice education for OT students and support less experienced team members.
- Attend regular supervision and contribute to safeguarding investigations.
- Use management information systems to maintain accurate records.
Additional Information:
- Professional supervision and line management provided by a registered Occupational Therapist.
- Opportunities for career progression and involvement in service development.
- Support for CPD, including peer groups and half a day a month dedicated to professional development.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- 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
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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