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About the Role
This role involves providing specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions to support safe and timely hospital discharges for adults under the Care Act 2014 and the Discharge to Assess (D2A) model. The focus is on assessing functional abilities, identifying risks, and arranging necessary support to maximize resident independence and facilitate return to the least restrictive environment.
Responsibilities
- Undertake occupational therapy assessments in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
- Complete strengths-based assessments focused on independence, wellbeing, and prevention.
- Identify appropriate equipment, assistive technology, and adaptations to facilitate safe discharge.
- Assess moving and handling requirements and recommend suitable interventions.
- Support residents to regain and maximize independence following hospital admission.
- Develop outcome-focused support plans that reduce reliance on long-term care where appropriate.
- Facilitate safe and timely discharges from acute hospitals, community hospitals, and intermediate care settings.
- Support the effective delivery of the Discharge to Assess pathway.
- Collaborate with NHS colleagues, social workers, therapists, nursing staff, and community providers.
- Participate in daily discharge planning meetings and multidisciplinary discussions.
- Prioritize urgent referrals to prevent discharge delays and unnecessary hospital stays.
- Provide occupational therapy duty cover for urgent discharge referrals.
- Respond to escalated cases affecting hospital flow and undertake same-day assessments where required.
- Advise colleagues on complex functional assessments and risk management.
- Contribute to seven-day discharge arrangements and hospital flow initiatives where required.
- Provide professional guidance and training to health and social care colleagues on occupational therapy practice and strengths-based interventions.
Requirements
- HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
Skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong assessment skills
- Strong prioritization skills
- Strong multidisciplinary working skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Locum
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Post-qualified experience
Education Level
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
Benefits
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service
- Access to exclusive roles
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- 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
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer.
- 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.