Job Description

Salary

37,938 - 44,711 (pay award pending)

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Housing

Date posted

13/06/2025

Job reference

REQ20429



Directorate: Adult Care, Housing and Public Health

Temporary until 3rd May 2026, full time, 37 hours per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a temporary Housing Occupational Therapist to join Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in the Housing Options Team to assist in delivering a quality service to people in need of appropriate housing.



Applicants are required to have a current HCPC registration and RCOT membership.

The Housing Options Team are passionate about ensuring customers are appropriately housed and that their long-term needs are met in terms of accessibility and support. If you share this passion and enthusiasm, this could be the job for you.

As a qualified Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for providing a high standard of assessment with well thought through recommendations for accessible housing. Your role will be fundamental in supporting the allocation and letting of Council properties to ensure that stock is used appropriately and that lettings are sustainable, achieving longevity in tenancies by recommending appropriate minor and major adaptations. In doing so you will be supporting people in being rehoused and providing them with security and enhancing their quality of life.

This varied and interesting role will include planning and undertaking comprehensive assessments of customers' housing needs in a variety of settings including customers' homes, hospital, rehabilitation units, nursing homes, etc., then implementing appropriate interventions to meet those needs. This will include, but is not limited to: housing advice, adaptations; provision of equipment; and referral to other services where appropriate.

Experience in community work, housing adaptations, hospital discharges and mental and physical health with adults and children would be very valuable for this role.

For any further information please contact Carol Wordsworth at carol.wordsworth@rotherham.gov.uk or Helen Eastham at helen.eastham@rotherham.gov.uk


This post involves working with children/ adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check


This post operates under a Career Grade/Grading Assessment Scheme, with starting salary and progression through the grades being linked to experience, qualifications and level of work being undertaken.


Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.


Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).