Occupational Therapist

We have an excellent opportunity available for an Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Mental Health Service, here at Wokingham Borough Council, on a full time, permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate and dynamic team, playing an integral role as we collaborate with The Health Trust to transform our services and develop a dedicated social care pathway. This role, along with the Senior Occupational Therapist post, have been created specifically to establish a reablement offer. Reablement provision will focus on delivering short-term, recovery-focused and goal-orientated support to individuals in the community, and on discharge from hospital. Occupational Therapists will work collaboratively with care providers and Social Care Practitioners, along with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to ensure individuals' needs are met. As part of this, we are keen for Occupational Therapists to conduct sensory assessments to support us to better meet the needs of our neurodiverse populations. Occupational Therapists' skills are valued and recognised as being key in enhancing the new social care pathway and Integrated Mental Health Service. Both Wokingham Borough Council and The Health Trust recognise the benefits of integration, which include holistic support for people accessing services, peer support and working collaboratively across mental health services in Wokingham. Wokingham Community Mental Health Services are committed to professional development and has excellent working relationships with health colleagues and colleagues in Adult Social Care.,

• Hold a mental health caseload, conduct assessments, provide care/recommendations and services for people who have severe and/or enduring mental health difficulties, and physical health co-morbidities
• Support Senior Occupational Therapist with the development of an occupation-focussed short-term reablement service
• Produce care plans and risk management plans and ensure their effective implementation.
• Support care providers to develop skills to better support our population
• Identify safeguarding adult and children concerns and implement safeguarding policies and processes.
• Maintain high standards of quality in clinical recording, ensuring information is recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date
• Comply with all service requirements in terms of lone working in the community.
  
  Have a degree in Occupational Therapy and be registered with HCPC
• Have post qualification experience in health or social care settings
• Full EU driving licence and daily access to use of a car
• Have an understanding of Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights legislation
• Be a skilled communicator, with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and customers
• Be well organized with excellent time management skills.
• Strong IT skills.
  
  Wokingham Borough is set in the heart of Berkshire with excellent transport links to Reading and central London. Our area comprises of a vibrant and historical market town, attractive villages, and miles of beautiful countryside.
We're home to a range of high performing schools including 69 primary and 21 secondary, a host of international businesses and an incredible community. We have a strong local economy with accelerated growth, a range of excellent public facilities and low levels of crime, offering an exceptional quality of life., Our Children's services When Children's Services get involved in the life of a child, our priority is to make sure our social workers have the support, time, and resources they need to provide an excellent quality of service - the kind of service we ourselves would wish to receive. We're committed to social workers having case loads that give them time to focus on relationship-based practice and we're growing our workforce to reflect this. We want to maintain an environment where practice can flourish and we offer:
• Good quality supervision
• A wide range of training and development opportunities
• A visible and responsive leadership team
We've adopted Signs of Safety as our practice framework. This is a strength based and safety-focused approach which prioritises direct work and relationships with the child and their network. Our commitment to this includes training staff at all levels in Children's Services. We also use this strengths based approach in the support and line management of our staff. https://wokinghamjobs.jgp.co.uk/ Careers in adult social care Adult Social Care makes a positive impact on so many lives. Working in social care is a fulfilling job that transforms lives for the better. With your help, people will have the ongoing support they need to live their lives to the full and help continue to deliver our outstanding services Roles are varied and every day is different. Working in adult social care will give you a huge sense of pride and satisfaction at the end of every working day. You won't find a more rewarding job.

Not only is this an excellent opportunity, but it's a fantastic time to join our team. You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including: A generous annual leave entitlement of ? days (rising to ? days after 5 years continued local government service), plus Bank Holidays Enrolment to an excellent local government pension scheme An employee assistance programme including 24/7 wellbeing helpline A range of local & lifestyle discounts Use of a free onsite gym (located at Shute End office) Salary sacrifice car & cycle to work schemes And much more!,
• Excellent pension benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Annual leave - starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays dependent on grade and working hours)
• Training and support
• Free eye tests
• Free gym access
• Free advice and counselling through our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Relocation package worth up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility
• Employment referral scheme of £1000 for successful candidates (subject to eligibility)
• We pay professional registration fees for Social Workers and Occupational Therapists
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