Salary: £41,127 per year
Reference: 192037
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Occupational Therapist to work in Woking on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Senior Occupational Therapist job is £41,127 per annum.
Shift Pattern:
36 hours per week
Both full-time and part-time applications would be considered
Duties:
Work with colleagues across all sectors to arrange appropriate support in the community including engagement in safe hospital discharge, ensuring a high standard of Occupational Therapy provision
Assess and manage the impact of people's physical and mental health conditions on their occupational performance
Put into practice the legislation underpinning, and your professional experience of, mental capacity assessments and best interest decisions, specialist mental health assessments, moving and handling risk assessments and intervention, equipment provision, major adaptations and rehabilitation with the aim of supporting and empowering people to live meaningful lives within the community
Undertake safeguarding work for those under your care
Utilise a range of skills to lead frontline holistic assessments of occupational therapy needs and planning support across a dedicated caseload of adults with both mental and physical health needs within a mental health social care setting
Have an influence on the future development of the team and will be responsible for supporting and providing clinical supervision to more junior members of staff
Requirements of the Senior Occupational Therapist:
Substantial post qualification experience of working within a social care and/or mental health setting, including routine experience of complex casework and risk assessment
Knowledge of social care and mental health policy and legislation is essential, as is a background in working directly with people with variable, unstable or challenging social care and mental health needs
Proven and excellent supervisory experience and skills
An ability to undertake moving and handling risk assessments, major adaptations assessments and more specialist cognitive/mental health assessments
Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, with the flexibility to work across the County of Surrey
Contact:
This Senior Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Megan Pollicott; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.