Occupational Therapist

**Social Services Occupational therapist (Working in the reablement team) - Locum Role**

**Paying up to a maximum £40 Per hour**

**Occupational Therapist - County Wide - Cambridge, Huntingdon, Ely & March.**

**Job Specification below**
- To provide Occupational Therapy interventions to people as part of identifying, preventing, reducing and delaying the need for short term Reablement or long term social care provision
- To provide Occupational Therapy interventions to people as part of identifying, preventing, reducing and delaying the need for short term Reablement or long term social care provision
- To work as a core member of the Prevention and Early Intervention Service to delay or prevent the need for long term care by using occupational therapy to consider if all alternative solutions to the provision of social care have been explored, and to supportthe delivery of a reabling culture and ethos
- Complete person centred occupational therapy assessments, using a strength based outcome focused approach. Assess the functional needs of adults in the community, including those with variable conditions, physical health needs, mental health needs, chronicand terminal illness.
- Use clinical reasoning to provide appropriate options to enable people to maximise their level of independence
- Deliver specialist and complex moving and handling risk assessment of service users in a range of settings to minimise the level of care and support required, including preventing, reducing an delaying the need for double handed support
- Ensure clear and precise documentation of the risk assessment.
- Liaising closely with service users, informal carers, Reablement services, care providers and social care staff to feedback the recommendation of the above assessment, and any changes to care and support plans that are required.

**£500 Referral Bonus for October if you know anyone interested**
- To assess and treat own caseload of patients within the defined clinical area and maintains associated records
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner within your area of specialty
- Facilitates and supports the discharge planning process
- Supervises less experienced physiotherapists, therapy assistants / technicians and students.
- To work flexibly across specialties when requested, and if competency allows

**Benefits of working with Tripod Partners**
- £350 refer a friend bonus
- £500 loyalty bonus for continued service
- £50 bonus for registering
- £150 find your own job bonus
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for Mandatory Training
- Excellent compliance processes and department making it a smooth and enjoyable process
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Since Tripod Allied Health established in 2014, we have built a large, dedicated network of highly-regarded Allied Healthcare Professionals to deliver across public and private sectors.

Tripod Partners are the leading UK agency for qualified social care and hold awarded places on both the Workforce Alliance (formerly CCS&CPP) &vHTE Temporary Workforce Solutions II NHS Frameworks for the supply of Professionals across the UK.

We have highly experienced consultants, covering 9 key categories:

- Occupational Therapists
- Speech and language therapists
- Diagnostic Radiographers
- Therapeutic Radiographers
- Sonographers
- Pharmacists
- Cardiac Physiologists
- Echocardiographers
- Therapy Assistants (Band 3 & 4)

**Compliance**

**Market Knowledge**

**Locum Loyalty**

Working with Tripod Partners provides access to hundreds of locums that work exclusively with us. We pride ourselves on our locum loyalty, providing support to our temporary workforce at all stages throughout their time with Tripod Partners, ensuring continuityand commitment within our supply. Being a specialist AHP division, many of our locums have enjoyed the benefits of working with us across multiple assignments since Tripod’s beginnings in 2014, establishing loyalty with our organisation seldom seen acrossthe sector. Over 4,000 Allied Health Professionals hold registration with Tripod Partners and with our outstanding reputation of commitment, trust and transparency, this talent pool is ever increasing with quality locum referrals.

**Quality of service