Occupational Therapist – Discharge to Assess

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Discharge to Assess Team at the Redbridge.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive, locality-based multidisciplinary team delivering integrated community health and Adult Social Care services. You'll play a key role in supporting safe hospital discharges while promoting independence through high-quality, person-centred Occupational Therapy interventions.

The Role

As an Occupational Therapist within the Discharge to Assess Team, you'll manage a caseload of approximately four cases per week, undertaking both standard and complex assessments for adults with a wide range of health needs.

Working autonomously and alongside multidisciplinary colleagues, you'll assess for specialist equipment, manual handling solutions, and major adaptations to ensure people can return home safely and maintain their independence.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake holistic, person-centred Occupational Therapy assessments.
• Assess for and recommend simple and complex equipment, manual handling solutions, and major adaptations.
• Complete support planning and reviews for adults and their carers.
• Manage and prioritise a varied caseload of complex and standard cases.
• Work collaboratively with health, housing, and social care professionals.
• Provide advice and training on the safe use of equipment in line with legislation and best practice.
• Maintain accurate case records and contribute to safe discharge planning.

Essential Requirements

• HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist.
• Extensive experience assessing for complex equipment, specialist equipment, manual handling, and major adaptations.
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team undertaking complex Occupational Therapy assessments.
• Strong knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation and housing legislation.
• Proven ability to independently manage, prioritise, and progress complex cases.
• Experience reviewing equipment provision and educating service users and carers on safe use.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and clinical reasoning skills.

Why Join Redbridge?

• £41.58 per hour
• Locality-based integrated health and social care service
• Supportive multidisciplinary team
• Regular professional supervision and support
• Flexible working opportunities available
• Immediate interviews and quick start

Interested?

For more information or to apply, contact us today.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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