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Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Area: North East London Social Services 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                          
Job details:  Occupational Therapist required for 12 weeks to cover sickness. Adults. Must have Moving and Handling experience, working with adults in a community setting.
Significant post-qualifying experience in an Occupational Therapy setting with experience of manging others an providing high standard of supervision. 
• Experience of undertaking highly complex casework within a statutory adult setting 
• Experience of service delivery which is culturally sensitive and responsive to the needs of a multi-cultural community 
• Experience of prioritisation, care planning and service delivery 
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in assessing complex risk
• Experience of having to interpret, understand and make judgements on the complex interactions between the risk and protective factors in any given situation when arriving at a decision about whether the vulnerable adults their families and carers is experiencing or is likely to experience significant harm.
 • Have high-level knowledge and skills in gathering information from a range of sources
Budgetary awareness. 
• Strength based approach
• Make timely judgments and decisions that are based on evidence and thorough analysis of all the information gathered. 
• Demonstrate an ability to support others to draw up specific support plans with clear timescales/outcome that are based on high quality assessments, which are strength based and identify how risks are addressed and mitigated. 
• Systematically monitor and review decisions and plans, advising where they need revising in the light of new information and evaluation of whether the interventions are achieving the planned outcomes. 
• Know about the different methods of intervention and understand their effectiveness. 
• Demonstrate or show evidence of having undertaken and managed to completion no of complex cases and able to demonstrate a high level of conceptualisation of critical analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written). • ICT skills including use of Microsoft applications.
Code:  U. OR5238. 026002. B14698