Job summary
Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist eager to not only manage an interesting caseload but also play a pivotal role in guiding and supporting your colleagues?
Elevate your career by becoming a pivotal member of our Reablement Team, making a positive impact on individuals' lives post-hospitalisation, rebuilding confidence, and enhancing daily activity skills.
Our Advanced Occupational Therapists provide professional support, train team members, and act as expert advisors on equipment and decision-making. The role primarily focuses on working with individuals in care homes using the discharge-to-assess model, but it's part of the broader reablement team.
As an Advanced Occupational Therapist, you'll manage a challenging and diverse caseload, conduct strengths-based OT assessments, and apply person-centred principles to promote well-being and positive risk-taking. Weekend participation is needed due to our current weekend service.
If you have over 3 years of post-qualification experience, hold a full UK Driver's license, understand occupational therapy laws and are ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you! Join us in creating success stories of individuals in Wiltshire reclaiming their independence.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
About us
Wiltshire Council isthe unitary local authority for the county of Wiltshire, England, established in 2009 to provide both county-level and district-level services.The council's vision is to foster strong communities where residents can achieve their potential through empowerment and inclusion.The council focuses on long-term challenges, community engagement, and delivering services that support independent living, reduce inequalities, and promote overall well-being.
Key Responsibilities and Services
The council provides a range of essential services to residents, including waste management, public planning, and support for vulnerable populations, such as older adults and people with disabilities.
The council consists of elected councillors who form a cabinet to set the council's direction and priorities.A system ofoverview and scrutinyensures accountability for the cabinet's decisions.
The council engages in long-term planning, such as its household waste management strategy, focusing on new approaches and opportunities to manage waste over the next decade and beyond.
The council uses Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funds to support local infrastructure projects, including roads, schools, and recreational facilities, to manage the impact of development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Family overview
Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security and
development
- Safeguarding, protection and care.
- Community, residential, day or field settings.
- Ongoing risk and needs assessment of and advice for individuals and groups.
- Specification of any non-council provision.
- Individual or small group emphasis.
- May involve personal care activities.
- Likely to involve immediate response to client.
Service and Function Context
Reablement is a short term, therapist led service aiming to prevent, reduce and delay the need for
ongoing services. Reablement supports people to be as independent as possible and includes the
provision of information and advice, analysis of needs, provision of equipment and adaptations and
targeted assistance from a team of support workers.
The reablement team seek to support people to make use of community and personal assets to
achieve their goals.
The overall responsibilities of the reablement team are -
- To work with customers, carers and families to identify goals and design creative reablement
support plans to achieve them.
- To connect customers with local resources and facilities.
- To operate within legal frameworks and defined budgets for social care.
- The team will work closely with colleagues from Health, private providers, the voluntary sector
and others, to support the occupational needs of customers.
Job Purpose
To provide practice and professional leadership, support and supervision for Occupational Therapists
and social care staff in adult care teams
To uphold and promote standards of practice for Occupational Therapists as determined by the
regulatory body - HCPC, and in accordance with the Professional
Standards and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational
Therapists.
Specific duties and 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.
- Specific requirements for this post -
- Ability to travel on a daily basis and to undertake visits to customers in their own homes or in
other settings e.g. hospital.
- There will be a requirement to work outside of standard hours, including weekends to meet
the needs of the service, for example assessing customers abilities at different times of the
day or provide support to other members of the reablement team. The number of out of hours
worked will not exceed 10% of the total contracted hours per week.
- To be flexible and work in other reablement teams as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Family overview
Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security and
development
- Safeguarding, protection and care.
- Community, residential, day or field settings.
- Ongoing risk and needs assessment of and advice for individuals and groups.
- Specification of any non-council provision.
- Individual or small group emphasis.
- May involve personal care activities.
- Likely to involve immediate response to client.
Service and Function Context
Reablement is a short term, therapist led service aiming to prevent, reduce and delay the need for
ongoing services. Reablement supports people to be as independent as possible and includes the
provision of information and advice, analysis of needs, provision of equipment and adaptations and
targeted assistance from a team of support workers.
The reablement team seek to support people to make use of community and personal assets to
achieve their goals.
The overall responsibilities of the reablement team are -
- To work with customers, carers and families to identify goals and design creative reablement
support plans to achieve them.
- To connect customers with local resources and facilities.
- To operate within legal frameworks and defined budgets for social care.
- The team will work closely with colleagues from Health, private providers, the voluntary sector
and others, to support the occupational needs of customers.
Job Purpose
To provide practice and professional leadership, support and supervision for Occupational Therapists
and social care staff in adult care teams
To uphold and promote standards of practice for Occupational Therapists as determined by the
regulatory body - HCPC, and in accordance with the Professional
Standards and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational
Therapists.
Specific duties and 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.
- Specific requirements for this post -
- Ability to travel on a daily basis and to undertake visits to customers in their own homes or in
other settings e.g. hospital.
- There will be a requirement to work outside of standard hours, including weekends to meet
the needs of the service, for example assessing customers abilities at different times of the
day or provide support to other members of the reablement team. The number of out of hours
worked will not exceed 10% of the total contracted hours per week.
- To be flexible and work in other reablement teams as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist.
- Evidence of further professional development including practice education including contributing to the development and learning of others individually and as part of a team.
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualification awards, such as a post graduate certificate, diploma or Masters, degree in a health, social care or management topic or a qualification in coaching.
- Experience as a practice educator.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist.
- Evidence of further professional development including practice education including contributing to the development and learning of others individually and as part of a team.
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualification awards, such as a post graduate certificate, diploma or Masters, degree in a health, social care or management topic or a qualification in coaching.
- Experience as a practice educator.
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).
