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This is a part time opportunity for 18.5 hours per week with flexibility on working pattern. The advertised salary will be pro ratad for part time hours.
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Neighbourhood team covering North and South Harlow. There will also be a commitment required to support the West Essex quadrant as a whole through your robust practice delivery, strong decision making and with a vision to promote peoples independence and wellbeing utilising activity and engagement in occupation, through a strength-based approach.
You will join a knowledgeable and supportive team, who are proud of creating an inclusive environment where we build each other up. And, with access to a range of training and development opportunities to empower you through our award-winning Essex Social Care Academy along with flexible working options, you can make your career work for you.
Whatever you want to achieve in your social care career, you can do it here.
As an Occupational Therapist you will carry out assessments of risk and deliver therapeutic interventions reached in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLs/CHC etc) and which build resilience and enable independent living for vulnerable adults. Quality assuring interventions to ensure that vulnerable people are safeguarded in line with the Councils statutory obligations, working with colleagues across the council and in other statutory bodies to do so, balancing need with financial commitment, positive risk taking and close working with the community are key to this role.
About us- Accountable for assessment and identification of appropriate systems of support, facilitating service user choice which empowers people and enables them to live healthily, safely and independently.
- Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLs/CHC etc).
- Responsible for providing specifications which evaluate the safe use of equipment and adaptations and comply with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines on safe working practices, thereby reducing risks.
- Delivers expertise in particular area of practice and advises on those areas, contributing to the development of the four key principles.
- Delivers expertise and professional knowledge and expertise to provide advice and guidance for complex cases in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLS/CHC assessments etc)
- Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a vulnerable adult, include intervention as required.
- Attends meetings, reviews, case conferences and court hearings to provide information, insight and evidence, providing reports where appropriate.
- Work collaboratively building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships, stakeholders, and the voluntary sector which facilitates the delivery of joint objectives which deliver improved outcomes.
This is a part time opportunity for 18.5 hours per week with flexibility on working pattern. The advertised salary will be pro ratad for part time hours.
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Neighbourhood team covering North and South Harlow. There will also be a commitment required to support the West Essex quadrant as a whole through your robust practice delivery, strong decision making and with a vision to promote peoples independence and wellbeing utilising activity and engagement in occupation, through a strength-based approach.
You will join a knowledgeable and supportive team, who are proud of creating an inclusive environment where we build each other up. And, with access to a range of training and development opportunities to empower you through our award-winning Essex Social Care Academy along with flexible working options, you can make your career work for you.
Whatever you want to achieve in your social care career, you can do it here.
As an Occupational Therapist you will carry out assessments of risk and deliver therapeutic interventions reached in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLs/CHC etc) and which build resilience and enable independent living for vulnerable adults. Quality assuring interventions to ensure that vulnerable people are safeguarded in line with the Councils statutory obligations, working with colleagues across the council and in other statutory bodies to do so, balancing need with financial commitment, positive risk taking and close working with the community are key to this role.
About us
- Accountable for assessment and identification of appropriate systems of support, facilitating service user choice which empowers people and enables them to live healthily, safely and independently.
- Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLs/CHC etc).
- Responsible for providing specifications which evaluate the safe use of equipment and adaptations and comply with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines on safe working practices, thereby reducing risks.
- Delivers expertise in particular area of practice and advises on those areas, contributing to the development of the four key principles.
- Delivers expertise and professional knowledge and expertise to provide advice and guidance for complex cases in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2e.g. MCA/DoLS/CHC assessments etc)
- Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a vulnerable adult, include intervention as required.
- Attends meetings, reviews, case conferences and court hearings to provide information, insight and evidence, providing reports where appropriate.
- Work collaboratively building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships, stakeholders, and the voluntary sector which facilitates the delivery of joint objectives which deliver improved outcomes.
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