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Occupational Therapist - Complex Cases & Manual Handling

£26.1 - £30.6 per hourEstimated

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist to join its client’s Complex Cases & Manual Handling Team in Birmingham. The role involves completing complex functional and manual handling assessments, recommending specialist equipment, and developing safe moving and handling plans in people’s homes. You will focus on risk management, detailed intervention planning, and supporting citizens with higher-level needs.

The contract is a 3‑month locum position with a hybrid working pattern, primarily home‑based with one required weekly visit to Sparkbrook, and the role requires an immediate start.

What will your responsibilities be?

  • Complete complex functional assessments in citizens’ homes across Birmingham.
  • Carry out manual handling assessments, including hoisting, slings, transfers, and safe‑moving plans.
  • Identify functional strengths, barriers, risks, and appropriate interventions.
  • Recommend and prescribe manual handling equipment and minor adaptations in line with service policies.
  • Develop personalised moving & handling plans for citizens, carers, and family members.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care to ensure consistent, safe support.
  • Provide defensible clinical reasoning and maintain clear, timely case notes.
  • Contribute to a strengths‑based, prevention‑focused approach to service delivery.

Working Expectation:

  • Hybrid role with a weekly visit to Sparkbrook.
  • Home visits across Birmingham throughout the week.
  • Base office location: Lifford House, Birmingham.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

  • Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
  • Minimum 1 year post‑qualifying experience (essential).
  • Strong experience and knowledge of manual handling (essential).
  • Experience working with complex cases in community or social care settings.
  • Confident completing home visits and working independently.
  • Ability to start immediately.

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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