Occupational Therapist – Equipment & Adaptations

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with strong experience in equipment and adaptations?

Islington Council is looking for 2 Occupational Therapists to join its growing service, supporting residents to maintain independence, improve wellbeing and access the right interventions at the right time.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative Health and Care environment, using your specialist OT skills to provide practical, person-centred solutions that make a genuine difference to residents' everyday lives.

What will your responsibilities be?

As an Occupational Therapist, you will:

• Complete comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.
• Assess residents' functional needs and identify appropriate equipment and adaptations.
• Recommend practical solutions to promote independence, safety and wellbeing.
• Apply a strengths-based, person-centred approach to assessment and care planning.
• Work in line with the Care Act 2014, supporting early intervention and prevention.
• Identify residents who may benefit from preventative interventions.
• Work collaboratively with Health, Social Care and wider multidisciplinary teams.
• Apply service criteria and make appropriate decisions around case closure and transfer.
• Support the development of effective pathways and joined-up solutions.
• Contribute to service development, quality assurance and continuous improvement.
• Maintain high standards of professional conduct, performance and ethics.

Qualifications & Experience

We’re looking for Occupational Therapists who have:

• Current HCPC registration.
• Strong post-qualified Occupational Therapy experience.
• Proven experience assessing and recommending equipment and adaptations.
• Experience working with adults, older people and/or people with disabilities.
• Knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and Adult Social Care practice.
• Experience undertaking holistic, strengths-based assessments.
• The ability to identify practical solutions that promote independence and reduce risk.
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working skills.
• The confidence to manage your own caseload and make professional

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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