Occupational Therapist – Children with Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist to join its client’s Children with Disabilities (CWD) Team based in Tameside. This is a full-time agency role offering the opportunity to support children and young people with complex needs to achieve greater independence, safety, and participation within their home and community environments.

The Role

As an Occupational Therapist within the Children with Disabilities Team, you will deliver specialist assessments and interventions to improve outcomes for children and their families. A key focus of the role is undertaking housing and environmental assessments and supporting the recommendation and delivery of home adaptations to meet complex needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake specialist Occupational Therapy assessments for children with disabilities.
• Assess home environments and identify required adaptations.
• Complete and support Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) applications.
• Work closely with the Home Improvement Agency (HIA).
• Collaborate with surveyors and caseworkers to design suitable adaptations.
• Provide professional recommendations to support DFG decision-making.
• Work effectively across multi-agency teams, including social care, health, and education services.
• Manage a varied and complex caseload.
• Deliver person-centred, outcome-focused interventions.
• Support families throughout the adaptation process, from assessment through to completion.

Requirements

• HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist.
• Experience working within paediatric services or Children with Disabilities teams.
• Strong knowledge of Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) processes and housing adaptations.
• Experience working within complex multi-agency environments.
• Excellent communication, assessment, and report-writing skills.
• Ability to manage a varied caseload independently.
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children and families.
• Supportive and collaborative multi-agency working environment.
• Opportunity to develop specialist expertise in housing adaptations and DFG processes.
• Varied and rewarding caseload.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.

Interested?

If you would like to be considered for this role, or know someone who may be suitable, please get in touch with the Liquid Personnel team today.

Referral Bonus Available – Recommend a qualified Occupational Therapist with paediatric or DFG experience and receive a referral bonus for successful placements.

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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