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About the Role
Provide a quality Occupational Therapy service to adults, conducting functional assessments for older people, adults with physical and sensory needs, or learning disabilities. The role involves carrying out urgent assessments, risk assessments, and providing interventions with equipment and minor adaptations. It also includes referring for major housing adaptations, safeguarding adults and carers, and reviewing provided interventions to ensure wellbeing principles are central to care and support planning.
Responsibilities
- Provide a quality Occupational Therapy service to adults.
- Conduct professional occupational therapy functional assessments for older people, adults with physical and sensory needs, or learning disabilities.
- Carry out urgent assessments and risk assessments.
- Provide Occupational Therapy interventions using simple and complex equipment, including moving and handling equipment.
- Recommend equipment and minor adaptations, from simple items to complex specialist chairs and shower chairs.
- Refer and recommend for major housing adaptations via the Disabled Facility Grant pathway or other relevant pathways.
- Safeguard adults and carers at risk of harm, promoting Making Safeguarding Personal principles and their wellbeing.
- Undertake reviews of equipment, adaptations, and interventions provided.
- Ensure wellbeing principles are at the heart of assessment and care and support planning.
Requirements
- Registered as an Occupational Therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Understanding and experience of operating with a comprehensive assessment framework.
- Minimum of 2 years of working in the UK experience as an Occupational Therapist.
- Experience of preparing clear and accurate correspondence, reports, and other written documentation, including risk assessments.
- Sound, practical understanding of relevant legislation (such as the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Disabled Facility Grant), policies, and processes necessary to deliver complex and multiple services to vulnerable adults.
Location
- Barnet
Work Type
- Flexible Working
- Part-time
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Minimum of 2 years of working in the UK experience as an Occupational Therapist
Education Level
- Registered as an Occupational Therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Benefits
- 31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
- A vast range of lifestyle discounts
- Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee well-being training programs including confidential employee assistance
About the Company
- Barnet is a borough with excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces and diverse communities.
- The council aims to build on these strengths and is growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing the borough.
- The organisation is committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better.
- Staff are committed to Our Values: Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative.
Equal Opportunity
- Barnet Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
- Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures.
- To deliver Barnet Council’s commitment to equality of opportunity in the provision of services, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers.
- Barnet Council embraces all forms of flexible working (including part-time, compressed hours, and hybrid working) and is committed to offering employees a healthy work-life balance.
- Barnet Council is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
- We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert.
- We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process.
- We support the access to work scheme.