Occupational TherapistinCambridgeinCambridgePUBLISHED THU 13 MAR 2025
Cambridgeshire County Councilr6yOCaWZ
As part of our dedicated team, you’ll work closely with a Senior Occupational Therapist to manage your own caseload, focusing on optimising care solutions for service users currently receiving double handed support. Not only will you benefit from robust professional development opportunities, including team support and CPD offers, but you'll also enjoy a comprehensive wellbeing package, the option to buy extra leave, and flexible bank holidays tailored to suit your needs. We wholeheartedly encourage women and all candidates to apply — if you don’t meet every single criterion but feel this role resonates with you, we want to hear from you! Together, let's create an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and empowered.
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to work across Cambridgeshire within our Prevention and Early Intervention services. The aim of the service is to identify, prevent, reduce and delay the need for both short- and long-term care and support. It comprises of the Adult Early Help team, Reablement, Technology Enabled Care, Sensory Services and Occupational Therapy. We play a crucial role in preventing admissions, promoting single handed care through specialist assessment and equipment provision, signposting, problem solving, facilitating discharges, and acting as a link between health and social care. This project will be focusing on the proactive review of people receiving double handed care and support. Occupational therapy assessment will aim to determine whether the provision of moving and handling equipment, information and advice, and support to care staff, can optimise these packages of care. This is a hybrid post. Working from home with multiple office bases around county including March, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and Cambridge. Dependant on location of employee. The role is offered on a full-time basis (37 hours per week) as a 12 month fixed term opportunity. Interviews are planned for the week beginning the 24th of March. We will honour any continuous service in terms of annual leave entitlement for staff joining us from other local authorities or NHS trusts. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the role or employee benefits, please call Occupational Therapy Team Manager Rebecca Marr on . Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
You will be supported by a Senior Occupational Therapist to manage your own caseload of service users that have been identified as receiving double handed care and support packages. You will be supported to record and evidence the intervention provided and outcomes achieved. You will have support from the whole team, including team meetings, OT professional development group, a great CPD offer and a wide range of training opportunities. You will be educated to Degree or Diploma level in a subject recognised by the College of Occupational Therapy and have experience in assessing moving and handling, and optimising care/ single handed care. You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle. We have office bases across Cambridgeshire and the post holders work base may be negotiable dependant on the needs of the service. We work in an agile way, and home working for a proportion of the working week will be supported.
About us
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to work across Cambridgeshire within our Prevention and Early Intervention services. The aim of the service is to identify, prevent, reduce and delay the need for both short- and long-term care and support. It comprises of the Adult Early Help team, Reablement, Technology Enabled Care, Sensory Services and Occupational Therapy.
We play a crucial role in preventing admissions, promoting single handed care through specialist assessment and equipment provision, signposting, problem solving, facilitating discharges, and acting as a link between health and social care.
This project will be focusing on the proactive review of people receiving double handed care and support. Occupational therapy assessment will aim to determine whether the provision of moving and handling equipment, information and advice, and support to care staff, can optimise these packages of care.
This is a hybrid post. Working from home with multiple office bases around county including March, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and Cambridge. Dependant on location of employee.
The role is offered on a full-time basis (37 hours per week) as a 12 month fixed term opportunity.
Interviews are planned for the week beginning the 24th of March.
We will honour any continuous service in terms of annual leave entitlement for staff joining us from other local authorities or NHS trusts.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the role or employee benefits, please call Occupational Therapy Team Manager Rebecca Marr on .
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
What will you be doing?You will be supported by a Senior Occupational Therapist to manage your own caseload of service users that have been identified as receiving double handed care and support packages.
You will be supported to record and evidence the intervention provided and outcomes achieved.
You will have support from the whole team, including team meetings, OT professional development group, a great CPD offer and a wide range of training opportunities.
About youYou will be educated to Degree or Diploma level in a subject recognised by the College of Occupational Therapy and have experience in assessing moving and handling, and optimising care/ single handed care.
You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle.
We have office bases across Cambridgeshire and the post holders work base may be negotiable dependant on the needs of the service.
We work in an agile way, and home working for a proportion of the working week will be supported.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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