Senior Occupational Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,511 i £45,718 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £1000 welcome payment, lease car & relocation |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Hertfordshire, Eastern England |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Hertfordshire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | HCC28031 |
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Job Title: Senior Occupational Therapist
Starting Salary: £41,511 opportunity to progress to £45,718 per annum – pay award pending + £1000 welcome payment, lease car & relocation - terms apply
Hours: 37
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Adult Care Services
About the team
Housing Solutions – Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, 37 hours
the Housing Solutions team offer specialist assessment across Hertfordshire for major housing adaptations. The team has a blend of community based Occupational Therapists and Community Care Officer Trusted Assessors who complete specialist housing needs assessments to identify major adaptation solutions to enable a person to have better access to the facilities within their homes.
We explore personal strengths, their family and friends’ support networks, and using expert knowledge we connect people with things that will help individuals and families to get on with their lives, achieving prevention, reducing or delaying the need for statutory provision of care services.
Enablement Team – Farnham House, Stevenage – 37 hours
The Enablement Occupational Therapy Team provide support to older people and adults with a disability. We promote personalisation through our assessment process, focusing on the wellbeing of the individual. The Enablement Occupational Therapists deliver enabling programmes. Their input is time-limited, with intervention generally between 4 -6 weeks, this can be extended up to 12weeks where identified goals require this. The care management is completed externally to the enablement team allowing our OTs to focus solely on their OT interventions.
Adult Disability Team West
St Albans Team – Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, 37 hours
We work in an enabling way with people and their families and carers, to promote independence and participation, through meaningful occupation and a strengths-based approach. Across all our services we aim to ensure that people are provided with the right support and advice, and at the right time.
We work collaboratively alongside social care colleagues, as well as with our health partners, housing and care providers, and a range of community support services.
About the role:
Working collaboratively with other partners and teams within Adult Care Services
Developing innovative support plans
Promote and support strength based assessment and practice approach to all interventions to maximise independence, health and well being to prevent or reduce the need for Adult Social Care
Working creatively with residents to ensure their safety and independence
Raising awareness in the area and developing valuable links for the team
Supporting other Therapists and Community Care Officers
Provide information and advice to enable an individual to confidently and safely participate in their daily life, includes grading of tasks and activities and adapting their environments
You will undertake a specialism eg Moving and Handling, BiA, AMP or Occupational Therapy practice educator
Specific to Housing Solutions:
Completing complex assessments and making recommendations for major housing adaptations
Care planning and organising equipment for minor adaptations
Specific to Enablement Team:
Designing personalised programmes that enable, and encourage the individual to relearn skills and regain abilities.
Reviews of moving and handling, provision of specialist equipment, & minor adaptations to support identified goals.
Supporting people in the community and on discharge pathways from acute hospital settings
About you
Essential:
HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist
Full driving licence and regular access to a vehicle
2 years post qualifying experience as an Occupational Therapist
Knowledge and experience in social care sector
Experience of completing assessments and making recommendations
Ability to work on your own as well as part of a team
Desirable
Knowledge of Care Act 2014
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act 2005
Starting Salary: £41,511 opportunity to progress to £45,718 per annum – pay award pending + £1000 welcome payment, lease car & relocation - terms apply
Hours: 37
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Adult Care Services
About the team
Housing Solutions – Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, 37 hours
the Housing Solutions team offer specialist assessment across Hertfordshire for major housing adaptations. The team has a blend of community based Occupational Therapists and Community Care Officer Trusted Assessors who complete specialist housing needs assessments to identify major adaptation solutions to enable a person to have better access to the facilities within their homes.
We explore personal strengths, their family and friends’ support networks, and using expert knowledge we connect people with things that will help individuals and families to get on with their lives, achieving prevention, reducing or delaying the need for statutory provision of care services.
Enablement Team – Farnham House, Stevenage – 37 hours
The Enablement Occupational Therapy Team provide support to older people and adults with a disability. We promote personalisation through our assessment process, focusing on the wellbeing of the individual. The Enablement Occupational Therapists deliver enabling programmes. Their input is time-limited, with intervention generally between 4 -6 weeks, this can be extended up to 12weeks where identified goals require this. The care management is completed externally to the enablement team allowing our OTs to focus solely on their OT interventions.
Adult Disability Team West
St Albans Team – Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, 37 hours
We work in an enabling way with people and their families and carers, to promote independence and participation, through meaningful occupation and a strengths-based approach. Across all our services we aim to ensure that people are provided with the right support and advice, and at the right time.
We work collaboratively alongside social care colleagues, as well as with our health partners, housing and care providers, and a range of community support services.
About the role:
Working collaboratively with other partners and teams within Adult Care Services
Developing innovative support plans
Promote and support strength based assessment and practice approach to all interventions to maximise independence, health and well being to prevent or reduce the need for Adult Social Care
Working creatively with residents to ensure their safety and independence
Raising awareness in the area and developing valuable links for the team
Supporting other Therapists and Community Care Officers
Provide information and advice to enable an individual to confidently and safely participate in their daily life, includes grading of tasks and activities and adapting their environments
You will undertake a specialism eg Moving and Handling, BiA, AMP or Occupational Therapy practice educator
Specific to Housing Solutions:
Completing complex assessments and making recommendations for major housing adaptations
Care planning and organising equipment for minor adaptations
Specific to Enablement Team:
Designing personalised programmes that enable, and encourage the individual to relearn skills and regain abilities.
Reviews of moving and handling, provision of specialist equipment, & minor adaptations to support identified goals.
Supporting people in the community and on discharge pathways from acute hospital settings
About you
Essential:
HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist
Full driving licence and regular access to a vehicle
2 years post qualifying experience as an Occupational Therapist
Knowledge and experience in social care sector
Experience of completing assessments and making recommendations
Ability to work on your own as well as part of a team
Desirable
Knowledge of Care Act 2014
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act 2005
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