Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,220.00 to £42,839.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38220.00 - £42839.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Northallerton, DL7 8AE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0025-25-0063 |
Summary
Job specifics: Provide a professional OT assessment within the Customer Resolution Centre and or the Locality Occupational Therapy Team Maintain professionals skills and knowledge it is expected that Occupational Therapists will rotate across all 3 services areas Provide a speedy resolution to equipment enquiries within the Care and Support Team in the CRC Support people contacting the CRC for equipment advice to complete online self-assessment tools Provide effective information, advice and guidance on equipment within the Care and Support Team in the CRC Work creatively with adults with care and support needs and their carers, family and friends when planning reablement interventions Work collaboratively with staff in Discharge Hubs, Community Social Care, Reablement and Recovery delivery arm to ensure that an adult with care and support needs and or their carers outcomes are achieved Work proactively with care and support workers to ensure a graded approach to facilitate maximisation of a persons ability is achieved. Analyse a persons activity and identify a graded approach to promote their independence. Support care and support workers in optimising a persons ability and enabling functional achievement, Develop rehabilitation plans with people which help rebuild lost skills and restore confidence. Regularly review the reablement plan Where the adult with care and support needs and or their carers outcomes cannot be achieved within the service ensure that care is co-ordinated and transferred to Community Social Care. For those who are over 12 months qualified and following the appropriate training and experience, undertake safeguarding adult investigations as Lead Investigator where required by the Line manager or Service Manager. For those in the first year of qualification and or new to a qualified Occupational Therapy post, assist with Safeguarding Adults Investigations as required by the relevant Line manager or Care Service Manager. For those who are Deprivation of Liberty Best Interest Assessor qualified (see note above*) the BIA will be expected to undertake the statutory assessments and maintain their BIA qualification or be successfully completing the re-approval requirements. Job Purpose The core focus of the Occupational Therapist (OT) role is to maximise the independence and safety of vulnerable people in North Yorkshire who have social care needs. The post holder will do this by undertaking assessments with vulnerable people using the Directorates procedures. The post holder will support people and carers who have been assessed as being in need through the provision of advice, support equipment and adaptations to develop appropriate support plans to meet their preferred outcomes within specified resources. Operational Management Undertake occupational therapy assessments with adults with care and support needs and or their carers and where requested to undertake assessments of need with carers in any setting. Assess for and arrange equipment and adaptations to maintain/improve the persons independence in daily living activities. Undertake manual handling assessments, risk assessments and the production of a manual handling plan when appropriate. Work with Discharge Hubs and Community Social Care teams to facilitate appropriate assessment access to more complex equipment and major adaptation solutions to individuals, including the processing of applications for disabled facilities grants. Following assessments, identify whether or not people and carers fall within the eligibility criteria and communicate this to the adult with care and support needs or a carer, and work creatively and innovatively with them to develop an agreed support or intervention plan to achieve the identified outcomes. Produce agreed support intervention plans or reablement intervention plans. Undertake financial assessments relating to Top-Up Grants for adaptations. Provide support and advice to people and carers on how their needs could be partly or wholly met by access to universal and other non-care services. Avoid unnecessary hand-offs when the OT is the only worker involved, by arranging simple services to meet the persons or carers needs. Demonstrate and educate people, carers and appropriate colleagues, care workers in the correct use of equipment and or techniques to enable the person to achieve optimal independence in activities of daily living. Provide training, assessment and sign-off of competencies in the provision of an agreed range of simple equipment and minor adaptations to assessment and reablement staff. Provide appropriate day to day consultation, advice and support to other staff. Undertake or contribute to re-assessments or review of services as required. Maintain regular contact with people and carers during an active involvement or reablement to monitor and respond to changes in their situation. Represent the Directorate in court proceedings and with other agencies as required. Undertake a practice education role with students as required. Assist in proactively working towards the increased uptake of direct payments and other service development initiatives including (but not limited to) reablement, personalisation, individual budgets, self-assessment and self-directed care. Resource Management Provide day to day advice and support (as required) and act as Professional Practice Educator to students who are placed in or visiting the team as agreed. As appropriate contribute to wider team and organisational performance targets. Support the adult with care and support needs and or their carer to meet their assessed needs within the indicative budget and in a way which maximises resources, where this is not the case you will seek advice from your Line manager at the earliest opportunity. Research or select most cost-effective equipment to meet a persons needs. Partnerships Participate in training and development and project activity including multi-disciplinary and multi-agency activity. Contribute to the development of the local community to enable the empowerment of vulnerable people, including liaising with local, universal and other services to promote vulnerable peoples access to them. Work with colleagues and other agencies including health partners, district and borough councils, housing organisations and private and voluntary sector to ensure maximising of resources and opportunities for people. Liaise with colleagues and other agencies to ensure the development and provision of coordinated and effective services. Communications Maintain clear, concise and timely records of cases, care packages and actions in line with the Directorate's policies on file maintenance, this includes electronic and paper records. Communicate to the adults with care and support needs and carers in an appropriate manner. Effectively negotiate and manage conversations where there is a disagreement. Engage with a range of other agencies to maximise choice and resources. Communicate effectively and in a manner and timescale appropriate for the level of urgency, to your manager, other colleagues and professionals. Systems and Information Ensure that you utilise the current business processes to support the Adult Social Care function in relation to case recording, financial monitoring, ICT. Assisting in the collection of data and making appropriate use of IT systems. Assist in the timely and accurate collection of performance data using appropriate IT systems and processes. Contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of Adult Social Care processes and systems. Assist in the collection of performance data using the appropriate IT systems.