Occupational Therapist - Manual Handling

Job Title: Occupational Therapist - Manual Handling
Location: Suffolk
Pay Rate: £35 per hour

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a qualified and experienced Occupational Therapist to join its client’s Manual Handling Team within Suffolk Adult Social Care for a short-term assignment focused on manual handling assessments and care package reviews.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Delivering safe and timely front-line OT services across the directorate


• Supporting triage and reducing duplication between health and social care to manage OT waiting lists


• Advising and supporting external care providers on safe moving and handling practices


• Reviewing care packages to ensure best value and optimal use of equipment


• Assessing and reducing double-handed care packages where appropriate


• Providing mutual aid to other OT areas as needed


• Completing OT assessments and reviews in line with best practice

Benefits:

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Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy


• HCPC registration


• Experience to Band 6 level or equivalent


• Manual handling expertise essential


• Local authority experience preferred (NHS also considered)


• Must be local to Lowestoft or able to commute daily

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service


• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly


• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies


• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal


• Your own 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 *

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.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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.

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