Occupational Therapist full time (36 hours)

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Salary and retention payments: Occupational Therapist BR11/12 (plus 2 increments) £41,476 - £48,396. Plus golden hello £1000 and annual retention payment on anniversary of appointment of £1500.

Contract Type: permanent

Location: Bromley Civic and home working

Looking for your next exciting adventure in Adult Social Care? The London Borough of Bromley has recently introduced a new Occupational Therapy led front door team (The Community Intervention Hub). We are seeking an enthusiastic and talented Occupational Therapist to join our new team at this exciting time to join our friendly and hard-working team as part of this new ASC front door model. Working in conjunction with the Initial Contact Team, Safeguarding Team and based in the Community Intervention & Prevention Hub.

About the Role:

The role is in the front door offering focused short-term intervention to mitigate immediate risk and ensure that residents OT and social care needs are identified and met.

The team consists of Occupational Therapists and Social Workers working together to share knowledge and aim for excellence for the residents of Bromley accessing our services. We work within a hybrid model with a mixture of working from the Civic Centre, community assessment visits and working from home.

The role will involve:

Joint triaging, multi-disciplinary and collaborative working with social workers in the Community Intervention Hub
Occupational Therapy assessments with residents in their own homes and over the telephone triaging to identify the Occupational Therapy needs.
Completing joint visits with the social workers in our team.
Identifying and ordering the required Occupational Therapy equipment and minor adaptations.
Moving and Handling assessments when required.
Supervision of less qualified staff.

Current registration with HCPC is essential.

The successful candidate will receive a full induction and receive regular professional supervision. We are dedicated to ensuring the sustainability of our service and offer on the job learning opportunities and an Occupational Therapy training program. This includes a Journal Club and a Clinical Reasoning Group, to support less experienced staff to increase their knowledge and enable more experienced staff an opportunity to discuss and problem solve complex cases.

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
Excellent training and career development pathway
The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance.
A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers.

Applications will be assessed based on the criteria set out in the Job Description and Person Specification, which can be found here.

If you would like to speak to the Hiring Manager about the role, please contact Leah.Miller@bromley.gov.uk, Leah Miller (Occupational Therapy Team Manager Community Intervention Hub) or call 0208 313 4247 for a confidential discussion.

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.

We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies. If you are a candidate and would like to contact the Recruitment Team regarding the application process, please email Recruitment.Team@bromley.gov.uk