About the role
Liquid Personnel is looking for experienced Occupational Therapist to support its client's Adult Social Care service tea in Rutland, delivering high-quality interventions to enable individuals to remain independent in their own homes.
This is a varied role, combining reablement, discharge support, and community-based interventions.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Complete holistic, strengths-based assessments and develop personalised reablement plans
- Support individuals on Discharge to Assess pathways, enabling safe return home
- Work with community patients to prevent hospital admissions
- Assess and provide equipment and adaptations (including major adaptations)
- Complete risk assessments, including complex moving & handling cases
- Promote and support use of assistive technology
- Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals
- Maintain accurate case records and monitor support plans
- Supervise OT Assistants and provide guidance to colleagues
Benefits
- Competitive rate of £32 p/h
- Hybrid working model
- Broad caseload across reablement and discharge work
- Supportive council environment
- Strong likelihood of extension
Qualifications & Experience
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Experience within Adult Social Care or Health settings
- Understanding of:
- Care Act 2014
- Safeguarding procedures
- Strong assessment, risk management, and care planning skills
Key Skill
- Ability to manage and prioritise workload effectively
- Strong communication and partnership working
- Confident in moving & handling assessments
- IT literate (case management systems, email, data input)
Working Pattern
- Hybrid working:
- 2 days office-based
- 1 day working from home
- Remaining time in the community
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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