Occupational Therapist - Chelsea, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Personnel

Sanctuary Personnel
Sanctuary Personnel
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Chelsea, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Sanctuary Personnel, a committed and competitive recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist to work full-time based in Kensington and Chelsea.

The pay rate for this permanent Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist job is £37,260 - £45,381 per annum


Main Duties:


  • Use strengthbased approach for assessment and OT support plan. Work creatively to meet the Service User's needs.
  • Advise service users on all aspects of their daily life including information about communitybased services, LD, Primary Care and Mental Health, as appropriate.
  • Advise on ways of overcoming problems and risk reductions of daily living by using new techniques or technological solutions.
  • Adapt the environment to suit the service user's needs by recommending and ordering appropriate and costeffective equipment and/or minor adaptations to the home
  • Demonstrate and provide guidance to the service user, their family and carers in the correct use of OT equipment. Develop knowledge about new equipment including assistive technology.
  • Meet the OT practice standards, HCPC regulation and RBKC OT service policies and procedures. Share newly acquired knowledge with the colleagues to improve the overall quality of the OT Service.
  • Work in partnership with the health and other relevant agencies in order to provide continuity of care to the service users.
  • Supervise Occupational Therapy Assistants and Occupational Therapy Students as required, keeping line manager informed. Maintain concise records of assessments and other contacts with users, relatives and other professionals in accordance with departmentaland professional policies.
  • Contribute to and participate in the planning and review of departmental policies. To adhere to deadlines for competing the work and tasks. Achieve the set targets to ensure performance targets are met.
  • Identify own training and development needs and with agreement of managers group, attend internal and external courses to support personal continuing professional development. To complete development logs and share knowledge gained within team and boroughmeetings.
  • Keep up to date on developments within the OT profession and in the provision of Social Care.
  • Design, implement and evaluate project/research type work.
  • Act as a representative of the OT team or service at meetings or on working parties.
  • Make full use of Information Technology systems i.e. Personal Index, Lotus Notes, Word, Email, PowerPoint, Intranet /Internet and to undertake further training as necessary.

Requirements of the Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist:

  • Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy
  • HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist
  • At least two years of postqualifying experience working as an Occupational Therapist
  • Proven experience of working with older and disabled people
  • Ability to undertake holistic assessments of service user's and carer's needs and establish their priorities
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and an awareness of its impact on user group
  • Awareness of the importance of current professional issues and an ability to consider these within the context of departmental issues

Contact:


With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.


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.

With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughoutthe process and into your work placement.
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