Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist  (2 roles)
Area: Greater Manchester Social Services
Salary:  £35
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing                          
Job details:  Experienced Occupational Therapist within social care required to assess adults and/or paediatrics within their own home to maintain their independence via rehab techniques, use of reablement, equipment, minor and major adaptations. JD available on request:

• As an Occupational Therapist within Early Intervention Integrated services, including Reablement, Equipment and Adaptations and Assistive Technology, you will work with service users who are experiencing difficulties with their ability to complete activities of daily living and experiencing reduced levels of independence. 
• The service responds to both children and adults who require assessment and intervention to support optimum health and wellbeing within the home environment and the community. 
• In responding to adult cases, you will provide highly specialised assessment, treatment and management of adults who present with physical, learning or mental health needs that impact on their ability to manage within their home environment. 
• You will be responsible for the assessment of need and to utilise a range of solutions to achieve optimum independence, via the use of a reablement programme, assistive technology, small pieces of equipment and minor adaptations, and/or the provision of major equipment and adaptations where an integrated approach has already indicated no further rehabilitation potential, or a compensatory approach is needed for the adult to reach their full potential. You will work in conjunction with the Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist and other specialists as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop an integrated approach to services.
• In responding to paediatric cases, you will provide highly specialised assessment, treatment and management of babies, children and adolescents who present with diverse and complex physical, developmental and learning needs.
• You will be responsible for the provision of adaptations in the home environment for children where the care plan indicates no further rehabilitation potential, or a compensatory approach is needed for the child to reach their full potential. You will work in conjunction with the Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist and other specialists in Occupational Therapy to develop an integrated approach to services, identifying service goals and priorities as part of a child’s overall care plan and needs assessment.
• You will provide a specialist response in complex cases, formulating and implementing intervention plans aimed at reducing the impact of disability and increasing the independence of children in their own homes through the provision of equipment and adaptations.
• You will be based with one of the 3 Early Intervention teams.  As part the Healthier Wigan Partnership, we work closely with our colleagues across the health and social care economy, including public health, community and acute health care services and housing, all providing an integrated approach to promoting and maintaining the health, wellbeing and independence of the people we support. 
• You will ensure the delivery of high quality and effective services to adults, children, families and carers using a personalised and assetbased approach that promotes health and wellbeing.  You will support people to optimise their engagement in the local community and support them to develop outcomebased recommendations.  You will work closely with integrated community colleagues to promote the use of the assetbased approach, ensuring this is provided across the multi-disciplinary workforce. 

Code:  U. XMS 0009 EC45/1.009004.B16024