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Occupational Therapist - Social Care (Community)

£26.01 per hour
Temporary

Liquid Personnel are currently recruiting for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join a Social Care team in Stockton-on-Tees.

This is an excellent opportunity for an OT with community and social care experience who is confident managing a busy caseload and delivering high-quality assessments to support adults with a wide range of disabilities.

The successful candidate will work autonomously across community settings, helping individuals maximise their independence through assessment, rehabilitation, equipment provision and practical interventions.

You will have the flexibility to work from home between community visits and/or from council offices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage a varied community caseload independently
  • Complete holistic Occupational Therapy assessments
  • Carry out moving and handling risk assessments and planning, including single-handed care approaches
  • Assess posture and recommend appropriate seating solutions
  • Complete complex Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) assessments
  • Provide housing recommendations and adaptation advice
  • Assess Blue Badge eligibility
  • Prescribe equipment and recommend adaptations to support independence
  • Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams (MDT)
  • Apply positive risk-taking approaches and proportionality within OT practice
  • Maintain accurate records using Liquid Logic care records system and ELMS equipment portal

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

  • HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
  • Experience working within Social Care or community OT settings
  • Experience managing an autonomous caseload
  • Strong clinical reasoning and assessment skills
  • Confidence working independently across community environments
  • Excellent communication and MDT working skills

Desirable experience:

  • Liquid Logic care records system
  • ELMS equipment portal
  • Complex DFG work
  • Housing adaptations
  • Seating and posture assessments

Why Apply?

  • Competitive rate of £26.01 per hour
  • Flexible community-based working
  • Opportunity for contract extension
  • Varied and rewarding caseload
  • Supportive Social Care environment

Interested in this opportunity?

Apply today or contact us for more information.

Know someone who would be a great fit? Refer a colleague 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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