Occupational Therapist (Social & Healthcare Qualified)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £21.57 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | PL14 |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Cornwall Staff Agency |
| Math o swydd: | Dros dro |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | OccupationalTPL14-9737 |
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Occupational Therapist (Social & Healthcare Qualified)
Location: East Cornwall (County-wide coverage)
Contract Type: Temporary
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 27 February 2026
Hours: Ideally full-time (negotiable)
Salary: £21.57 per hour
Dress Code: Smart/Casual
Required Attendance: Face-to-face visits required weekly
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Adult Social Care service on a temporary basis. This community-focused role will support our strategic savings plan for 2025/26 by delivering optimal care, reducing reliance on long-term care packages, and promoting independence for adults across Cornwall.
The role is county-wide, working flexibly across East Cornwall and in alignment with other Occupational Therapy roles. You will operate as an autonomous practitioner within a complex and varied community caseload, providing specialist assessments, interventions, equipment recommendations and adaptations.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
• Prioritising and monitoring OT referrals, providing advice to Social Workers, Technical Officers, Case Coordinators, Adult Social Care staff and external agencies.
• Acting as a point of contact for advice and enquiries relating to community OT services.
• Conducting complex assessments including risk assessments, and delivering specialist interventions.
• Managing a complex community caseload, prioritising your workload within conflicting demands.
• Completing face-to-face home visits to assess, plan and evaluate services alongside service users, carers and professionals.
• Providing training and guidance to service users and carers to support independent living.
• Working with people with complex and varied needs, including physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health challenges and terminal illness.
• Recommending and facilitating major and minor adaptations, ensuring technical feasibility and safe use.
• Carrying out risk assessments for community equipment and demonstrating safe use to service users and carers.
• Responding to urgent referrals as required.
• Contributing to staff development, induction programmes, case coordinator training and manual handling guidance.
• Supporting service innovation and identifying creative solutions to workload and organisational pressures.
• Maintaining accurate written and electronic records, professional reports and assessments.
• Using evidence-based practice, audit and outcome measures to evaluate and improve services.
• Assisting in recruitment processes when required.
• Working in line with Health & Safety, equality of opportunity principles, and professional standards including the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics.
About You
We are looking for experienced community-based Occupational Therapists who:
• Have experience within Adult Social Care (highly desirable).
• Are confident managing a varied and challenging community caseload.
• Can carry out regular face-to-face home visits.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills, including handling sensitive and complex information.
• Are able to work autonomously and collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Are committed to continuous professional development.
Essential Qualifications & Requirements
• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration
• Full driving licence, access to a car and ability to use it for work
• Experience working in Housing Occupational Therapy departments
• Strong IT skills
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Occupational Therapist looking for a meaningful temporary role supporting adults across Cornwall, we would welcome your application.
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