About the role
Liquid Personnel are currently recruiting for an experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join the Children with Disabilities Team at Wokingham Borough Council.
This is an exciting opportunity to support children and young people with disabilities by carrying out specialist assessments, recommending equipment and adaptations, and helping families create safer, more accessible home environments.
You'll work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, collaborating with social workers, health professionals, housing teams and equipment providers to deliver life-changing interventions.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Assess children and young people to identify functional needs and promote independence
- Develop person-centred action plans to reduce risk and improve daily living
- Assess, prescribe and review specialist equipment
- Recommend and oversee minor and major home adaptations
- Complete housing needs reports to support medical priority rehousing
- Liaise with surveyors, architects, builders and grants officers to ensure adaptations meet assessed needs
- Work collaboratively with families, schools, health professionals and partner agencies
- Maintain accurate case records, assessments and care plans
- Undertake home visits and property visits across the borough
Benefits
- Excellent rate of £300.57 per day
- Hybrid working with a minimum of two office days per week
- 9-month contract with an established Children with Disabilities Team
- Opportunity to make a lasting impact on children and families
- Varied role combining assessments, equipment and housing adaptations
- Supportive multidisciplinary environment
Note: Know someone who would be a great fit? Refer a colleague and receive a referral bonus for successful placements.
Qualifications & Experience
- HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Experience working as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist within a Local Authority
- Experience assessing for specialist and complex equipment
- Experience managing major and minor adaptations from assessment through to completion
- Ability to interpret architects' plans and provide creative solutions
- Strong communication and multidisciplinary working skills
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
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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