Occupational Therapy Assistant

3 weeks ago

Wirral, United Kingdom Wirral Council Full time

**Employer**: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
- **Salary**: £23,893 - £24,294
- **Location**: Wirral
- **Contract**: Permanent
- **Working Pattern**: Full Time
- **Hours**: 36 hours per week.
- **DBS Check**: Enhanced
- **Closing Date**: 03/03/2024 at 23:59
- **Reference**: AH&SC/24/270624

There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. We’ve got ambitious targets to meet and to achieve everything we have promised to our residents, we need people who are ready to deliver the very best for our communities and show how they can #BeTheDifference. Our vision is to secure the best possible future for our residents, defined by the community prosperity we create and supported by our excellent people and services. If you strive to #BeTheDifference and want to be at the heart of our change and improvement journey, then this could be the perfect job for you.

A rare and exciting opportunity has come up to join our integrated Therapy and Housing Adaptation service in Wirral, working alongside Occupational therapists, technical officers, and customer support staff. This is an opportunity to improve your skills knowledge and experience. You will be identifying people's needs and supporting them to have essential adaptations to improve their daily lives, to enable safety, promote wellbeing and enable independence, and also enabling carers to support individuals to achieve their daily living needs and enable access to the community. The Occupational Therapy (OT) service in Adult Social care provides high quality person centred occupational therapy assessments, to people in their own homes, enabling people to maximise their independence within the home environment.

You will be providing support to the existing OT team, in the housing adaptation service. Identifying a person's needs for assessment, for risk reduction, and assessing people's needs for equipment, and adaptations under the Disabled Facilities Grant criteria, local housing grant criteria and local equipment service provision criteria.

You will be supervised and supported by experienced therapists and a team leader, to help you develop skills confidence and your abilities. There are regular monthly team meetings for all of the OT service, service specific weekly meetings, practical training including trusted assessor equipment training, in house training from Therapists across the OT service, and demonstrations of products from company reps. If you want a change of direction in your career as an assistant in health and social care or are already assessing people's needs for equipment but want to learn more about adaptations, then this role is for you.

**Working at Wirral**

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We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.

We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.
- Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies._
- It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances._
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