Job Description

Job Title: Occupational Therapist - Adults' Services
Location: Southwark (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: 29.42 per hour.
Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced and dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our client. This role offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment where you will handle a high volume of referrals and manage straightforward OT cases. The successful candidate will be required to work two days per week based at our office.
Key Responsibilities:

• Screen and assess referrals: Review and manage incoming referrals, ensuring the appropriate allocation of cases to the right OT resources.
• Provide clinical advice: Offer expertise in OT assessments for straightforward cases, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
• Manage caseloads efficiently: Prioritize and manage a high volume of referrals while maintaining quality standards of service.
• Collaborate with other teams: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including social workers, healthcare providers, and other relevant professionals, to ensure comprehensive care for clients.
• Complete occasional home visits: Conduct home visits as necessary to assess the client's living environment and ensure recommendations are appropriate for their needs.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified Occupational Therapist with a valid HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registration.
• At least 2 years of experience working as an Occupational Therapist, with a strong background in handling high volumes of referrals and managing straightforward cases.
• Proficient in case management and report writing: Experience using OT assessment tools and ensuring thorough documentation.
• Ability to conduct home visits: Comfort and competence in conducting occasional home visits as part of the assessment and care planning process.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working in community settings or within social care services.
• Knowledge of OT interventions for older adults or individuals with mobility challenges.
• Experience with referral triage and effective prioritization of cases.
• Proficiency in using OT-related software and databases.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and 'Faster Pay' service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• "Refer a Friend" bonus - get 500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• "Find your own job" bonus - get 250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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