Community Occupational Therapist

Job summary

About you

It is an exciting time to come and work in Leeds City Council to be a part of the Integrated Reviewing Team, with Occupational Therapists and Social Workers working closely together to ensure that people are receiving the appropriate level of care and support, by doing right fit assessments.

About the role

The Team consists of 3 Senior Occupational Therapists, 2 Community Occupational Therapists and 2 Occupational Therapy Assistants.

We are looking for a Community Occupational Therapist, who can demonstrate on-going experience in assessing and reviewing a variety of moving and handling cases and other cases with a complex care package, to work as part of a citywide team.

Main duties of the job

The post holders must be able to work within a team, but also autonomously manage their own workload.

The team will work closely with the Social Workers in the team.

The Occupational Therapy team will initially focus on:

• people who have been discharged from hospital, with a new package of care, where there are two carer staff members
• people who would benefit from a full functional assessment, with an aim to reduce the package of care, where the social worker identifies areas that could be looked at from an OT perspective, where an OT has not previously been involved, or where there is no equipment currently in place.
• Professional supervision and line management are provided by a Disability Team Manager, who is a registered OT.

We encourage our staff to grow their career with us, from students and newly qualified Occupational Therapists through to senior and experienced managers. Continued Professional Development (CPD) is at the heart of our practice and staff are given half a day a month to develop this. There is a clear career progression pathways and work to ensure that there is the right balance between support and challenge in all roles.

Opportunities are available to be involved in development work within the Council and with other agencies and we provide opportunities for all our registered OTs to support student education and to gain skills in the supervision and support of unregistered staff and new graduate OTs.

About us

Would you like to be part of something bigger and join us in our ambition to become the Best Council, working together as a Team for Leeds. Do your values match ours and do you have something to offer?

Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant, and attractive city to the people of Leeds. This is a fantastic time to join us.