Community Social Services Occupational Therapist
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to join our team to:
1. Maintain a complex occupational therapy caseload and be responsible for the assessment, support planning and review of complex individual needs, initiating and coordinating a range of outcomes that promote independence.
2. Undertake occupational therapy assessments using a range of health and social care tools, including activity analysis, graded goal setting, environmental risk assessments, specialist equipment provision, risk enablement, moving and handling risk assessments, major adaptation design specifications, Mental Capacity assessments, and Continuing Healthcare assessments.
3. Identify potential re-ablement opportunities and provide access to those services as required.
4. Promote a strengths-based approach that embeds the ethos of promoting independence and wellbeing, ensuring that people can assess and manage their own needs, risks, and uncertainties within their chosen living environment and meet their identified short- and long-term occupational performance goals.
5. Identify community and other natural support resources, maximizing individual assets and capabilities by using preventative/universal services and other funding sources, in line with the Adult Social Care Strategy.
6. Monitor and review ongoing service provision, ensuring all parties involved are fully coordinated, focusing on wellbeing and outcomes, and that all alternative solutions have been considered.
7. Liaise and negotiate with local providers and support networks to deliver better outcomes.
8. Provide professional information, advice, and support to people and their carers, staff, and colleagues by building positive relationships and partnerships.
9. Undertake safeguarding investigation work in relation to people and their specific occupational therapy issues.
Job Details
Location: West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Pay: £28.0 - £28.0 Per hour
Job level: Other Qualified Professional
Hours: Full time
Posted: 26 Sep 2024
Type: Agency/Temp/Locum
Closes: 3 Oct 2024
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