Occupational Therapist – Remote Assessment & Intervention

Liquid Personnel Limited.; Redbridge; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS service

Faster pay

Job summary

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join their remote assessment service. You will triage referrals, complete telephone/video assessments, prescribe equipment and minor adaptations, and contribute to prevention‑focused work across Adult Social Care.

This fast-paced role requires strong clinical reasoning, risk management, and digital communication skills, with occasional home visits to support complex cases.

Qualifications

• Experience in Adult Social Care, community OT, hospital discharge or reablement settings (Essential).
• Experience managing complex cases and risk in fast-paced environments (Essential).
• Experience completing remote assessments (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Triage referrals and identify priority, risk and required OT intervention.
• Conduct remote assessments via telephone and video call.
• Prescribe equipment and minor adaptations per service guidelines.
• Provide preventative advice and problem‑solving support to adults, carers and professionals.
• Escalate safeguarding concerns per statutory procedures.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records.
• Collaborate with community health, housing, social work and safeguarding partners.
• Participate in supervision, MDT meetings, and service development activities.

Skills

Care Act 2014

Housing legislation

Equipment provision

Adaptation pathways

Digital communication

Telephone assessments

Risk assessment

Moving & handling

Tools

Remote assessment tools

Job description

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experiencedOccupational Therapistto join their remote assessment service. You will triage new referrals, complete telephone/video assessments, prescribe equipment and minor adaptations, and contribute to prevention‑focused work across Adult Social Care. This is a fast‑paced role requiring strong clinical reasoning, risk management, and digital communication skills.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Review referral information to identifypriority, risk, and required OT intervention.
• Carry outremote assessmentsvia telephone and video call.
• Providepreventative advice, guidance, and problem‑solving support to adults, carers, and professionals.
• Escalatesafeguarding concernsin line with statutory procedures.
• Apply strongfunctional questioningand clinical reasoning to assess needs remotely.
• Prescribestandard equipment and minor adaptationsin accordance with service guidelines.
• Makedefensible, evidence‑based clinical decisionsthat reflect risk, strengths, and need.
• Maintainaccurate and timely case records.
• Contribute toprevention‑focused work, including equipment reviews, moving & handling advice, and self‑management strategies.
• Work collaboratively with community health, housing, social work, reablement, voluntary sector teams, and safeguarding partners.
• Participate in supervision, MDT meetings, training, and service‑development activities.
• Promote asolution‑focused and strengths‑based culture.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience working inAdult Social Care,community OT,hospital discharge,reablement, or similar settings (Essential).
• Experience managingcomplex cases and riskin fast‑paced environments (Essential).
• Experience completingremote assessments (Desirable).

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong understanding of:
  • Care Act 2014
  • Housing legislation
  • Equipment provision & adaptation pathways
  • Strength‑based approaches
• Excellent digital and telephone communication skills.
• Ability to assess risk, problem‑solve creatively, and makesafe, defensible decisions.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Effective independent working and strong team-working skills.
• Resilience, flexibility, and the ability to work under pressure.
• Strongmoving & handling knowledge

Additional Information:

• Occasional home visits may be required to support complex cases or service needs.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles thataren’tavailable 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 provideappropriate supportto 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.