Community Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Occupational Therapist, Reablement, Adult Social Care

Would you like a challenging and rewarding career with real opportunities to change the lives of people in Northumberland?

We are looking for newly qualified or experienced Occupational Therapists to join our Short Term Support Service.

Please note HCPC registration is essential for the role or HCPC pending for newly qualified OTs. You must also have a valid UK driving licence.

If you would like to make a positive impact on people's lives every working day we would like to hear from you.

About the position:

• Location : Berwick
• Hours: Full time (37 hours)
• Assignment: Permanent
• Salary: NCC Band 7 (equivalent to NHS band 5) £31,099 - £34,723

Main duties of the job

• The successful candidates will manage a caseload of clients (often with highly complex needs), using evidence-based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to promote independence and achieve peoples goals.
• Our staff provide leadership and clinical education for junior, student and support staff, through supervision, as appropriate to the banding of the post.
• You will participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interests and steering groups.
• All Short Term Support Service staff are enabled to work agile from home or any Northumberland County Council site, including an allocated base office site.

• We are a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team for adult rehabilitation working across both primary and secondary healthcare.
• Our Occupational Therapists work alongside Team Supervisors, Reablement Workers and NHS Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors to help clients achieve their rehabilitation goals.
• We also carry out rapid assessment and intervention, providing an urgent community response service.
• We work with adults with various conditions including orthopedic and neurological, as well as older people with age related conditions, falls and stroke.

About us

What our Occupational Therapy staff say about working here:

• the team is fantastic and really supportive, and we can make a real difference in our clients' lives
• it's a beautiful county and the people are canny
• you will be valued for who you are and what you do
• there are lots of opportunities and the teams are very supportive of each other great
• staff benefits and pension scheme
• it's a brilliant team and an exciting time to join, staff are driving the service forward
• the people make it very rewarding
• varied caseloads, supportive management structure, beautiful surroundings, varied job role, different environments, opportunities for complex workWhy choose us?We have some outstanding benefits to offer you, including:
• 26 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays (rising to 31 after 5 years of service)(pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexi scheme applicable to majority of roles
• Local government discount schemes available to all employees with offers at local businesses along with various national brands
• A commitment to work-life balance offering flexibility through various schemes including job sharing, home working, flexible working, part-year working, and compressed hours
• Car Leasing Scheme