Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Area:  Nottinghamshire Social Services
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job Details:  Experienced Occupational Therapist required – Adults or Children’s experience is suitable. Main role is Assessing and recommending school adaptations for disabled children in schools e.g. wheel chair ramps etc. JD available on request: To be responsible for the occupational therapy assessment of individual needs and the initiation and coordination of a range of outcomes to meet them, promoting the principles of choice and control, personalisation and self-directed support to ensure that service users can assess and manage their own needs, risks and uncertainties. Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the occupational therapy assessment, support planning and review of complex individual needs and then initiate and co ordinate a range of outcomes to meet them.
• Maintain a complex caseload commissioning services within available resources.
• Following appropriate training undertake assessments using a range of health and social care tools, for example, moving and handling assessments, specialist occupational therapy assessments, moving and handling assessments, Best Interests Assessments.
• Be responsible for the identification of potential reablement opportunities and provide access to those services as required.
• Provide professional detailed information, advice and support to service users and their carers.

Mosaic system. Within the Physical Disability Specialist Service. Countywide. Driver’s license required.
Code: U.XMS 0008 34E4 / 1.015011.B10531