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Our client in West Midlands are looking for 2 Occupational Therapists. Salary - negotiable. There is funding for 53 hours so could be 1 person full time (37 hours) + 1 person part time (16 hours) or 2 x part time at around 26.5hrs each. Reablement team in social care, covering people working on a project secondment. Working in a team with 4 other OTs. The OT's will be working with care provider who provides short term support for people. The aim is to work with people and reduce their care needs, sometimes taking on people with more complex needs so OT may be going in to facilitate a better set up. Complex cases can involve moving and handling. No major adaptions or housing but can access minor adaptions. Rates dependent on experience and discretion of manager.
Responsibilities:
- People with good moving and handling knowledge and single handed knowledge
- Have good, solid assessment and guidance and is able to produce quick turn around
- Ability to work well with care agencies and working well with carers, setting up therapy programs, etc
- Experience in supporting and guiding new staff would be a plus but is not essential
- Need to have a few years of experience to hit the ground running
- Will not accept newly qualified OTs
- Open to other backgrounds if they have transferrable skills with rehabilitation or reablement
- Hybrid: one day in the office policy a week
- No set days to work for part time, but ideally would be beginning of the week
- Ideally local enough to do visits and observational assessments
- Self allocation system for visits so number of visits can be variable
- Need to have ability to do some early hours visits (ex: 7am on occasion)
- MUST be able to drive own car
Qualifications:
Need to have a few years of experience to hit the ground running. Will not accept newly qualified OTs. Open to other backgrounds if they have transferrable skills with rehabilitation or reablement.