Advanced Occupational Therapist

Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist driven by a profound passion to instigate positive transformations in people's lives and restore confidence?

Elevate your career by becoming a pivotal member of our Reablement Team, making a positive impact on individuals' lives post-hospitalisation, rebuilding confidence, and enhancing daily activity skills. Our Advanced Occupational Therapists provide professional support, train team members, and act as expert advisors on equipment and decision-making.

As an Advanced Occupational Therapist, you'll manage a challenging and diverse caseload, conduct strengths-based OT assessments, and apply person centred principles to promote well-being and positive risk-taking. You will provide professional support and training on occupational therapy matters to Occupational Therapists, and other team members. You will manage a busy caseload of complex work undertaking strengths based occupational therapy assessments using person centred practice principles to assess, support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk taking.

You will collaborate with healthcare professionals and social workers for optimal outcomes, conducting assessments, setting goals, creating personalised reablement plans and providing supervision and support for complex cases within your team. Acting as an expert advisor to other team members on the provision of bespoke equipment, evaluating reasoning of occupational therapists and making decisions with regard to best value, increasing independence and reducing risk.

If you have over 3 years of post-qualification experience, hold a full UK Driver's license, understand occupational therapy laws and are ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you! Join us in creating success stories of individuals in Wiltshire reclaiming their independence.

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That's why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right. Explore more benefits here!

This position comes with a 12.5% market supplement payment. All market supplement payments are subject to review on an annual basis., To change everything around you, change where you work

Whether your aspirations lie in children's services or adult care, you can build a life that has real balance at Wiltshire Council. We are a positive and innovative place to work and bring a genuine can-do approach to everything we do. We have simplified our structures to ensure that our decisions are focused on our communities. Protecting the vulnerable is one of our key priorities - help us achieve this.

Our promise to you

We are innovating to create strong communities - we will empower you to share your ideas, to make suggestions and to help us find new solutions to old problems, whilst supporting you with the latest technology and encouraging collaboration with our communities, partners and colleagues.

We don't focus on limitations; we focus on opportunities and possibilities. In doing so, we're perfectly placed to help you achieve your potential and enjoy a truly fulfilling career. And this means you'll be able to empower our communities too, working collaboratively to help our residents live happier, healthier lives.

Our focus is on creating strong communities and we need aspirational, committed social workers. Learn about our approach to social care, our new social care academy and browse our vacancies.

We give our staff the opportunity to learn, develop, and grow. Our induction process for new starters is excellent, and you will receive regular supervision and training, access to memberships and subscriptions such as Research in Practice and Social Care Information and Learning Services (SCILS), team meetings, peer groups, journal clubs - the list goes on!