Reablement - Empowering Independence
Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist driven by a profound passion to instigate positive transformations in people's lives and restore confidence?
Elevate your career by becoming a pivotal member of our Reablement Team, making a positive impact on individuals' lives post-hospitalisation, rebuilding confidence, and enhancing daily activity skills. Our Advanced Occupational Therapists provide professional support, train team members, and act as expert advisors on equipment and decision-making.
As an Advanced Occupational Therapist, you'll manage a challenging and diverse caseload, conduct strengths-based OT assessments, and apply person-centred principles to promote well-being and positive risk-taking. You will provide professional support and training on occupational therapy matters to Occupational Therapists and other team members. You will manage a busy caseload of complex work undertaking strengths-based occupational therapy assessments using person-centred practice principles to assess, support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk-taking.
Main duties of the job
You will collaborate with healthcare professionals and social workers for optimal outcomes, conducting assessments, setting goals, creating personalised reablement plans and providing supervision and support for complex cases within your team. Acting as an expert advisor to other team members on the provision of bespoke equipment, evaluating reasoning of occupational therapists and making decisions with regard to best value, increasing independence and reducing risk.
If you have over 3 years of post-qualification experience, hold a full UK Driver's license, understand occupational therapy laws and are ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you! Join us in creating success stories of individuals in Wiltshire reclaiming their independence.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That's why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
Job responsibilities
To provide practice and professional leadership, support and supervision for Occupational Therapists and social care staff in adult care teams. To uphold and promote standards of practice for Occupational Therapists as determined by the regulatory body (the Health and Care Professions Council) and in accordance with the Professional Standards and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
* Registered with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£46,700 to £49,155 a year (Inclusive of 12.5% market supplement)
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