Job Description

Job Title: Senior Occupational Therapist

Team: Independent Living Services

Hours: 37 per week

Grade: I scp31 \xc2\xa337,261 to scp35 \xc2\xa341,496

Contract: Permanent

The Role

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Discharge to Assess function of The Independent Living Service. The Independent Living Service has 26 staff made up of Occupational Therapists, Disability Officer and Community Assessment Officers and includes the Sensory Team and Telecare Team. The aim of the post is to aid with discharge facilitation, rehabilitation and community follow up. The posts will sit alongside the Home Support Reablement Service and looks to assist people upon discharge who could be at possible risk of readmission to hospital without support.

This post offers an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of innovative ways of working across health and social care in order to improve the experience of service users and carers and to promote wellbeing and independence.

The ability to develop, maintain and improve relationships with service users and carers is essential in this role as well as the attributes required to participate in inter-disciplinary team working.

The OT role will involve undertaking assessments/reviews of need under the Care Act 2014, assist with advice /techniques, equipment, adaptations and provision of support as necessary and also link people in to universal and voluntary services. They will also assist colleagues within other areas of the service as necessary.

The Senior OT will work within the Discharge to Assess at Home function of the Independent Living Service and sit alongside Home Support Reablement, Community Therapy and the Intermediate Tier Social Work team. This role requires the person to work weekends and bank holidays on a rotational basis to support the delivery of the service 365 days of the year.

About You

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual who has a passion for working with adults, understanding their needs, aspirations and supporting them to enhance their quality of life and promote independence.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or \xe2\x80\x98unbroken\xe2\x80\x99 service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

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application deadline

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2nd Oct 2023

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