Locum Community Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Area:  Gloucestershire Social Services
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract Length: Ongoing
Job details:  Adult Social Care. This is an essential OT role within Adult Social Care, where the post holder will be responsible for carrying out OT assessments needs and providing advice and guidance to service users.
*  You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, health and the voluntary sector, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective, and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
* You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision and respond to changes need. This includes, develop, and evaluate reablement programs as part of care packages ensuring that programs to support independence are implemented.
* You will be responsible for managing your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
* You will raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments and complete safe methods of work practice guides, in order to ensure that needs are assessed, and appropriate action is taken.
This role is the majority of the time is office base with community travel, with some homeworking.
Full clean driver’s licence and access to a car (or able to use another appropriate means of travel) to travel to a range of locations including home visits.
Code: U.ACO 365175. 015001.BE13724