Community OT (Adults) Moving & Handling Review Specialist

Community OT (Adults) Moving & Handling Review Specialist

Join Our Dynamic Occupational Therapy Team in South Devon! Are you a passionate and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking for a rewarding role in a supportive and forward-thinking team? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join Care Direct Plus South in Newton Abbot.

Why Choose Us?

Our enthusiastic and welcoming team is dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of adults across South Devon. Covering a diverse area including vibrant towns, charming villages, and stunning rural communities you will have the chance to work in a truly unique and scenic environment. We work closely with NHS teams, social care services, district councils, housing providers, and equipment suppliers, ensuring a collaborative and holistic approach to care. Our team includes a mix of experienced Band 5 and Band 6 Occupational Therapists, as well as experienced Social Care Assessors and OT apprentices all committed to supporting one another and delivering excellent outcomes.

Whats in It for You?

A friendly and experienced team offering peer support, regular supervision, and CPD opportunities. Flexible working with telephone, virtual, and in-person assessments tailored to client needs. Diverse caseload covering a wide range of disabilities and health conditions. Scenic travel around the beautiful South Devon area as you support individuals in their own homes.

Main duties of the job

Brief overall description of role

Working as full members of the Care Direct Plus Team, Community Occupational Therapists will primarily be responsible for providing a person-centred service through specialist clinical assessment within the context of Social Care and Health policy and legislation. The post involves managing a caseload and lone working in a variety of settings. The emphasis of the work is a combination of Occupational Therapy and specialist moving and handling clinical skills/knowledge with responsibilities involving highly skilled and specialised work.

The tasks will involve (though not exclusively) the following:

• Undertaking specialist moving and handling assessments and reviews within hospital and community settings. This will be where the person is primarily in receipt of doublehanded care and/or where double handed care is requested, but not exclusive to this.
• Prescribing and implementing effective strategies to achieve person centred and cost effective outcomes for individuals including the use of specialist equipment and care packages.
• Managing a caseload including highly complex cases within the legal framework.
• Acting as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.
• Exploring innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social care, acute and community and the private and voluntary sector.

About us

What we can offer you

• We are committed to your continuous professional development and preceptorship, doing all we can to help you excel in your career and with new and exciting opportunities for career development. You will receive excellent support and supervision, with regular opportunities to discuss and reflect on your practice, both with your line manager and peers.
• We offer 26 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, rising incrementally to 31 days after 5 years service.
• Recognition of NHS continuous service for contractual annual leave purposes, sick pay entitlement and Maternity/Adoption & Paternity pay entitlement (within DCC Terms & Conditions)
• Flexible working opportunities are available, these include part time hours, flexitime, compressed working hours and homeworking (this is subject to the needs of the role please discuss at further at interview)
• Offer an opportunity to enter a generous Local Government Pension Scheme.
• As a place to live and work, Devon is hard to beat with top-performing schools, universities, vibrant cities, pretty villages and some of the most scenic coast and countryside in the UK. Living and working in Devon as an Occupational Therapist has never been more attractive.

Job responsibilities

For all relevant information pleaserefer to the job description and person specification documents attached.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through a degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Registered as fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Continuing professional development through specialist courses and other forms of training, evidenced through portfolio.
• To have completed a moving and handling train the trainer course or be willing to complete one.

Experience

• Post qualifying experience relevant to post.
• Experience of working in close liaison with other appropriate professionals.
• Experience of working in a Social Care and Health Community setting.
• Supervision of students on placement.
• Involvement in service development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£38,682 to £46,580 a year (Band 6)