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Occupational Therapist, Reablement, Adult Social Care
Would you like a challenging and rewarding career with real opportunities to change the lives of people in Northumberland?
We are looking for a newly qualified or experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Short Term Support Service.
Please note HCPC registration is essential for the role or HCPC pending for newly qualified OTs. You must also have a valid UK driving licence.
If you would like to make a positive impact on people's lives every working day we would like to hear from you!
The position:
Location : Berwick
Hours: Full time (37 hours)
Assignment: Permanent
Salary: NCC Band 7 (equivalent to NHS band 5) £33,024 - £36,648
Please note a job share or part time would be considered for the right applicant.
About the role
The successful candidates will manage a caseload of clients (often with highly complex needs), using evidence-based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to promote independence and achieve people’s goals.
Our staff provide leadership and clinical education for junior, student and support staff, through supervision, as appropriate to the banding of the post.
You will participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interests and steering groups.
All Short Term Support Service staff are enabled to work agile from home or any Northumberland County Council site, including an allocated base office site.
About the Short-Term Support Service:
- We are a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team for adult rehabilitation working across both primary and secondary healthcare.
- Our Occupational Therapists work alongside Team Supervisors, Reablement Workers and NHS Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors to help clients achieve their rehabilitation goals.
- We also carry out rapid assessment and intervention, providing an urgent community response service.
- We work with adults with various conditions including orthopedic and neurological, as well as older people with age related conditions, falls and stroke.
- This makes our work varied and interesting and also very rewarding.
- The Short Term Support Service plays a pivotal role in supporting hospital discharge and admission avoidance and interventions can take place in client's homes as well as Residential and Nursing homes.
- Some therapy activities occur in hospitals and other community settings, such as Leisure or Community Centres for group work.
About you
We are looking for someone who likes variety in their working life and is keen to develop their Occupational Therapy skills through involvement with a wide range of clients with wide ranging health and social care needs.
We would like to hear from applicants who share our values:
• Putting people first ensuring that their identified needs are met in a timely and efficient way
• Delivering excellence and quality in service provision
• Showing respect for service users and colleagues alike
• Keeping our communities safe and well
We want our staff to be the best so we can give the best possible support to people who need us.
What our Occupational Therapy staff say about working here:
• the team is fantastic and really supportive, and we can make a real difference in our clients' lives
• it's a beautiful county and the people are canny
• you will be valued for who you are and what you do
• there are lots of opportunities and the teams are very supportive of each other
• great staff benefits and pension scheme
• it's a brilliant team and an exciting time to join, staff are driving the service forward
• the people make it very rewarding
• varied caseloads, supportive management structure, beautiful surroundings, varied job role, different environments, opportunities for complex work
For further information please see the attached job description and person specification.
Northumberland is world-renowned as a visitor destination and an ideal location to strike a perfect work/life balance. There is no better way of enjoying the picturesque scenery and stunning coastline than on an everyday basis!
Why choose us?
We have some outstanding benefits to offer you, including:
• 26 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays (rising to 31 after 5 years of service)(pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexi scheme applicable to majority of roles
• Local government discount schemes available to all employees with offers at local businesses along with various national brands
• A commitment to work-life balance offering flexibility through various schemes including job sharing, home working, flexible working, part-year working, and compressed hours
• Car Leasing Scheme
• A range of salary sacrifice schemes
• Staff networks - run by staff, for staff, providing opportunitires for peer networking, matual support and staff development eg Armed Forces, ADS, Enable (disability), LGBT+, Menopause, Mental Wellbeing and Racial Equality
For further information:
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applications who meet the essential criteria. If you wish to notify us of your eligibility for this scheme please email hrrecruitnent@northumberland.gov.uk with your name and the job title you have applied for and one of the recruitment team will ensure this is factored in the shortlisting process and kept anonymous. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to attend an interview please also let the team know.
Alternative application format:
British Sign Language: northumberlandcc-cs.signvideo.net
For those with speech difficulties or hearing loss: Text relay service dial 018001 01670 623930
Although we advertise on North East Jobs, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications.
