Occupational Therapist – Adult Social Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist for its client's Adult Social Care service based in Flintshire. This is a full-time agency role offering £25.39 per hour, supporting adults and carers to maximise independence, reduce barriers to daily living, and achieve positive outcomes within their homes and local communities.

Benefits of the role

• £25.39 per hour
• Full-time – 37 hours per week
• Community-based role with home visits across the county
• Complex case management
• Minor and major adaptations experience required
• Manual handling assessments
• Seating and environmental assessments
• Equipment assessment and provision
• Positive risk-taking and strengths-based practice
• Rehousing assessments where adaptations aren't appropriate
• Work collaboratively with health, housing, social care and third-sector partners

Your duties and responsibilities

• Complete occupational therapy assessments for adults within their own homes and communities
• Manage a complex caseload and develop person-centred intervention plans
• Undertake minor and major adaptations assessments
• Carry out manual handling assessments and moving and handling recommendations
• Assess seating, posture, environmental needs and specialist equipment requirements
• Arrange and monitor equipment provision to support independence and safety
• Apply strengths-based practice and positive risk-taking approaches
• Conduct rehousing assessments where property adaptations are not feasible
• Work collaboratively with health professionals, housing services, social care teams and third-sector organisations
• Maintain accurate records, reports and assessment documentation
• Support carers and service users with advice, guidance and practical solutions

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Experience working with adults in community or social care settings
• Significant experience completing adaptation assessments, including major adaptations
• Knowledge of manual handling principles and equipment provision
• Experience undertaking home-based occupational therapy assessments
• Strong communication, organisational and IT skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently
• Full UK driving licence and access to your own transport for county-wide visits

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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