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Salary:£48,194 - £50,727 (Inclusive of 12.5% market supplement)
Hours per week:37 hours
Main duties of the job
Reablement - Empowering Independence
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with a passion for transforming lives and restoring confidence?
Due to internal promotion and the expansion of our service, we are looking for someone like you to join our Reablement Team.
We believe in making a positive impact on individuals' lives. As a key member of our team, you will help people rebuild their lives after hospitalisation, enhancing their daily activity skills and restoring their confidence. We value compassion, dedication, and the drive to make a difference.
You will manage a diverse and challenging caseload, conduct strengths-based assessments, and apply person-centred principles to promote well-being and positive risk-taking. Collaboration is essential to our success, and you will work closely with healthcare professionals and social workers to achieve the best outcomes, setting goals, creating personalised reablement plans, and providing supervision and support for complex cases.
We are committed to professional growth and excellence. You will act as an expert advisor to team members on bespoke equipment provision, evaluating reasoning, and making decisions to increase independence and reduce risk. Your expertise and guidance will be invaluable in encouraging a supportive and innovative environment.
If you have over three years of post-qualification experience, hold a full UK driver's licence, understand occupational therapy laws, and share our values, we want to hear from you.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Promote, develop and model high quality occupational therapy practice within the sphere of
reablement.
- Monitor that staff are working within statutory responsibilities and promote evidence informed
practice. This will include the quality assurance and evaluation of day to day practice of
occupational therapists and other reablement team members.
- Practice within the current legal framework, including health, social care and housing
legislation; and Wiltshire Council policies and procedures. Provide guidance and expert
advice to support other members of the team to work within the legal framework, policies and
procedures. Produce reports on practice and professional standards.
- Manage a busy caseload including complex and challenging cases; provide expert guidance
and mentoring to colleagues for the management of complex and challenging cases.
- Maintain an overview of the reablement service, reprioritising work according to staffing and
service needs.
- Undertake strengths based occupational therapy assessments working with complex and
contentious situations. Act as an expert advisor to other reablement team members.
- Design and implement creative reablement plans to enable customers to meet their goals and
reduce need for ongoing support and minimise demand for long term care.
- Demonstrate competence in complex risk assessment and positive risk taking. Work with
customers to manage risk and record actions and strategies agreed. Support other team
members with management of risk.
- Undertake complex moving and handling risk assessments, using your expertise to record the
recommendations in an format appropriate to the customers and/or carers needs. Monitor
and evaluate risk, share information with the relevant parties including demonstration of
recommended techniques. Support occupational therapists in the reablement team with
expert knowledge of moving and handling and specialist techniques and equipment.
- Assess for and recommend minor and major adaptations in accordance with the Care Act and
Housing legislation and guidance with customers with complex physical or social barriers,
within the reablement service. Use expert professional skills and judgement to analyse,
discuss and negotiate options with the customer to improve accessibility within their own
home or recommend re-housing. Review reablement and occupational therapy support plans,
suggesting other possible options, equipment or intervention as appropriate. Authorisation of
equipment and minor adaptations.
- Establish and maintain collaborative working within the health and social care community,
negotiating the most appropriate pathway for the customer and referring to specialist partners
as required.
- Consider the needs of carers in line with Care Act eligibility and make referrals to partner
agencies for assessment and support as required.
- Take active responsibility for your own continuing professional development and maintain an overview of the reablement teams professional development including attendance at
statutory and non-statutory training and participation in development opportunities
- Plan, co-ordinate and deliver training sharing your expert knowledge and experience with the
reablement team and external partners.
- To have an excellent awareness of safeguarding in line with Wiltshire policy, including making
referrals and participation in safeguarding investigations.
- Provide professional supervision to other members of the team, promoting evidence-informed
practice.
- Actively engage in individual and group supervision and embed learning in practice.
- Participate in appraisal and team meetings and contribute to individual and team development.
- Have an expert knowledge of IT including Microsoft applications. Oversee that all
occupational therapy and reablement contacts are recorded accurately, and in a timely way,
onto the Social Care records and monitor performance standards.
- Understand and utilise universally available services within the voluntary and community
sector, as well as maintaining knowledge of services commissioned by the Council to support
effective provision of information to customers. Promote the use of universal services with
reablement team members and the wider service.
- Actively participate in the development and strategic direction of the team to influence
effective and efficient service delivery. Contribute to development of policy and guidance.
Lead implementation of new legislation, policies and guidance in social care.
- Work in collaborative partnerships with colleagues from the council, health and other
stakeholders within the voluntary and community sector which promote well-being, social
inclusion and resilient communities.
- Deal with urgent and high risk situations to maximise the services ability to respond to
emergencies. Deputise for the Team Manager as required.
- Using advanced negotiation skills contribute to complaints resolution.
- Comply with the Wiltshire Council behaviours framework or any new policy adopted by the
council on professional practice.
- Be an ambassador for the Council at all times, always representing the Council positively,
professionally and appropriately at meetings with customers, external partners and agencies.
- Attend Civil Emergencies requiring a rest centre.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Promote, develop and model high quality occupational therapy practice within the sphere of
reablement.
- Monitor that staff are working within statutory responsibilities and promote evidence informed
practice. This will include the quality assurance and evaluation of day to day practice of
occupational therapists and other reablement team members.
- Practice within the current legal framework, including health, social care and housing
legislation; and Wiltshire Council policies and procedures. Provide guidance and expert
advice to support other members of the team to work within the legal framework, policies and
procedures. Produce reports on practice and professional standards.
- Manage a busy caseload including complex and challenging cases; provide expert guidance
and mentoring to colleagues for the management of complex and challenging cases.
- Maintain an overview of the reablement service, reprioritising work according to staffing and
service needs.
- Undertake strengths based occupational therapy assessments working with complex and
contentious situations. Act as an expert advisor to other reablement team members.
- Design and implement creative reablement plans to enable customers to meet their goals and
reduce need for ongoing support and minimise demand for long term care.
- Demonstrate competence in complex risk assessment and positive risk taking. Work with
customers to manage risk and record actions and strategies agreed. Support other team
members with management of risk.
- Undertake complex moving and handling risk assessments, using your expertise to record the
recommendations in an format appropriate to the customers and/or carers needs. Monitor
and evaluate risk, share information with the relevant parties including demonstration of
recommended techniques. Support occupational therapists in the reablement team with
expert knowledge of moving and handling and specialist techniques and equipment.
- Assess for and recommend minor and major adaptations in accordance with the Care Act and
Housing legislation and guidance with customers with complex physical or social barriers,
within the reablement service. Use expert professional skills and judgement to analyse,
discuss and negotiate options with the customer to improve accessibility within their own
home or recommend re-housing. Review reablement and occupational therapy support plans,
suggesting other possible options, equipment or intervention as appropriate. Authorisation of
equipment and minor adaptations.
- Establish and maintain collaborative working within the health and social care community,
negotiating the most appropriate pathway for the customer and referring to specialist partners
as required.
- Consider the needs of carers in line with Care Act eligibility and make referrals to partner
agencies for assessment and support as required.
- Take active responsibility for your own continuing professional development and maintain an overview of the reablement teams professional development including attendance at
statutory and non-statutory training and participation in development opportunities
- Plan, co-ordinate and deliver training sharing your expert knowledge and experience with the
reablement team and external partners.
- To have an excellent awareness of safeguarding in line with Wiltshire policy, including making
referrals and participation in safeguarding investigations.
- Provide professional supervision to other members of the team, promoting evidence-informed
practice.
- Actively engage in individual and group supervision and embed learning in practice.
- Participate in appraisal and team meetings and contribute to individual and team development.
- Have an expert knowledge of IT including Microsoft applications. Oversee that all
occupational therapy and reablement contacts are recorded accurately, and in a timely way,
onto the Social Care records and monitor performance standards.
- Understand and utilise universally available services within the voluntary and community
sector, as well as maintaining knowledge of services commissioned by the Council to support
effective provision of information to customers. Promote the use of universal services with
reablement team members and the wider service.
- Actively participate in the development and strategic direction of the team to influence
effective and efficient service delivery. Contribute to development of policy and guidance.
Lead implementation of new legislation, policies and guidance in social care.
- Work in collaborative partnerships with colleagues from the council, health and other
stakeholders within the voluntary and community sector which promote well-being, social
inclusion and resilient communities.
- Deal with urgent and high risk situations to maximise the services ability to respond to
emergencies. Deputise for the Team Manager as required.
- Using advanced negotiation skills contribute to complaints resolution.
- Comply with the Wiltshire Council behaviours framework or any new policy adopted by the
council on professional practice.
- Be an ambassador for the Council at all times, always representing the Council positively,
professionally and appropriately at meetings with customers, external partners and agencies.
- Attend Civil Emergencies requiring a rest centre.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
