Senior Occupational Therapist (S113)

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Job Description

Occupational Therapist - Higher Grade (S113) - Community Rehab Service.

Salary: Band: 10, £41,510 - £45,718 p.a - + shift allowance of 7.5% if applicable

37 hours per week

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.

This unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

The Service

The Community Rehab Service (CRS) is an integrated health and social care service designed to support adults with health and care needs to continue living in their own homes as independently as possible for as long as possible.

We are ambitious in our plans to deliver innovative and effective services that put the customer at the centre of what we do, working in more flexible ways to understand how we can put the right support in the right place at the right time to help people live the lives they want to live.By doing this, our aim is to improve the quality of care provided, reducing demand for social care services, reducing acute admissions (and therefore increased demand for ASC services) and length of time spent in hospital, as well as reducing the dependency on long term care.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist where you will deliver reablement and rehabilitation interventions to Portsmouth residents in their own homes to restore, maximise or prevent deterioration in their physical, psychological and social functioning. The role will involve you assessing the rehab and reablement needs of clients referred to the service (including those with complex presentation), planning treatment interventions and determining and evaluating agreed outcomes. You will monitor, evaluate and modify interventions to measure client progress and treatment effectiveness evaluating outcomes and arranging transfers of care if appropriate. You will be responsible for completing risk assessments and provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to clients, carers, relatives and other professionals. In addition, you will support and educate rehabilitation assistants as well as supervision to unqualified/qualified staff.

What you'll need to succeed

You will have a Diploma of the College of Occupational Therapists or BSc Occupational Therapy or OT qualification, substantial post qualifying experience and a current registration with HCPC. With a thorough understanding of the principles of rehabilitation, reablement and enablement you will have the ability to formulate, modify and evaluate rehabilitation programmes. You will have experience of complex caseload management and providing specialist equipment and using assistive technologies to improve, restore and attain occupational performance. With knowledge of relevant legislation relating to adults with disabilities you will have experience of manual handling and formulating functional assessments of complex needs and devising action plans.

With excellent communication skills you will have experience of working under pressure t meet deadlines whilst responding to competing demands and changing priorities. You will be fully conversant with the eligibility criteria for Adult Social Care.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Application process:

Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please do not just send a CV.

Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body.

Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.

You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement you application.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Closing time/date: Monday 16 December 2024 @ 23.59 pm.

The interview process will be held w/c 6 January 2025.

A commitment to our values

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk