Occupational Therapist

Liquid Personnel is recruiting for an experienced Locum Occupational Therapist to join its client in Blackburn with Darwen.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a Local Authority setting, supporting adults to maximise their independence and wellbeing through high-quality Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Complete Occupational Therapy and functional assessments for adults within the community
• Assess activities of daily living, mobility, transfers, environmental risks and barriers to independence
• Recommend and prescribe appropriate equipment and adaptations to promote safe and independent living
• Complete moving and handling assessments and provide appropriate recommendations to service users, carers and care providers
• Work collaboratively with service users, families, carers, Social Workers and wider multidisciplinary teams
• Support care and support planning through specialist Occupational Therapy advice around functional needs, risk and independence
• Manage a varied caseload effectively, prioritising work according to assessed need and risk
• Maintain accurate and timely assessments, reports and clinical records
• Apply person-centred and strengths-based approaches to achieve positive outcomes for service users

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• HCPC-registered
• Occupational Therapy Degree/Diploma

Posts Available

• 1 x Locum Occupational Therapists
• Contract end date: 31 January 2027
• Hours: 18.5 hours per week

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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