CRS Occupational Therapist

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

The Hounslow Community Recovery Service is an integrated health and social care service supporting people's independence following an injury, illness or a change in life circumstances. The team provides community rehabilitation and reablement aiming to restore and maximise independence or prevent deterioration in physical, psychological, and social functioning. It brings together different health and social care professionals into a single integrated team.

All health and social care professionals within the Community Recovery Service will have a set of core skills that all staff in the team are able to deliver regardless of profession. This supports the single assessment process, maximises use of resources and minimises duplication. In addition, team members will retain specialist skills and knowledge which will be utilised as required to support specific clinical pathways. Specialists will also support other team members' work to ensure fulfilment of relevant goals.

About The Team You'll Be Working In

You will be working in a supportive team; regular professional supervision, CPD, case discussions, training and appraisals focus on the individual needs of the staff and the residents we serve.

If you want to make the best use of your skills and are passionate about promoting independence and choice this is the job for you.

About You

Key Responsibilities

1. Hold responsibility for your own community rehab. caseload working without direct supervision.

2. Participate in 7-day working rotas as required which may include cover in emergencies.

3. Undertake comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment of residents including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies.

4. To be alert for instances when vulnerable residents may be at risk and to ensure safeguarding vulnerable adult alerts are made as appropriate within required timescales.

5. Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of clinical risk within own patient caseload.

Your Skills

1. Be able to provide a high standard occupational therapy service, which involves working autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team within the community setting.

2. To be able to negotiate with residents, their families/carers to enable their needs to be positively met within available resources.

3. Use a range of verbal and nonverbal communication tools to communicate effectively with residents to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes.

4. Ability to maintain and demonstrate Royal College of Occupational Therapy guidelines and standards of practice including maintaining accurate and comprehensive records. To have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and to monitor quality of service as appropriate.

Essential for The Role

1. Dip COT (state registered) or Degree in Occupational Therapy.

2. Experience in a rehab setting required.

3. Enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the employee specification.

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held and Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

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Closing date: 19th November 2024

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 25th November 2024.

To apply, please click "Apply Now".

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £38,364.00-£46,041.00 per year

Work Location: In person