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Occupational Therapist - Home First

£25.5 - £29.8 per hourEstimated

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Occupational Therapist for its client’s Home First Team (Adult Social Care), based in Dorchester.
Our client’s Home First Occupational Therapy Team is expanding to meet the growing demand for hospital discharge support, active recovery, and reablement services. We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join this dynamic and fast-paced team.

What will your responsibilities be?

You’ll work collaboratively with health and community partners to deliver person-centred care that improves individual outcomes. The OT team is a core part of the wider Home First Social Care Team, operating across all areas of Dorset. You’ll maintain strong links with all three area clusters, ensuring a joined-up approach to service delivery.

This role involves:

  • Supporting timely hospital discharges
  • Delivering active recovery and reablement packages
  • Conducting visits across the county
  • Building strong relationships with multidisciplinary teams

Location & Working Style:

  • Based at County Hall, Dorchester
  • Hybrid working supported (office-based and WFH)
  • Travel required across Dorset

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

  • HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist
  • Experience in adult social care, hospital discharge, or reablement
  • Ability to work independently and across teams
  • Car driver with access to a vehicle preferred

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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Vacancy posted a month ago
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