Occupational Therapist

Newcastle City Council; North East; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle City Council is seeking an Occupational Therapist to join their Adult Social Care & Prevention Directorate. In this role, you will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team to promote independence in individuals needing care, ensuring timely interventions to support their well-being. Enjoy a competitive salary and various benefits in a supportive work environment where your contributions can make a significant difference in the community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Access to Local Government pension scheme

Family Supportive Policies

Flexible working options

Occupational Health support

Discounted travel passes

Qualifications

• Confident and customer-focused with ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
• Flexible approach to work and ability to meet challenging deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Promote best practice in Occupational Therapy across health and social care.
• Support individuals to maintain independence and prevent unnecessary admissions to care.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to assess interventions for at-risk clients.

Skills

Communication

Customer Focus

Flexibility

Job description

Are you looking for a role in a great place to work that gives you an opportunity to make a real difference to peoples lives? This could be the job for you!



Why work for Newcastle City Council?

Newcastle City Council offers you an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant city with proactive and committed people who have a genuine desire and motivation to support positive outcomes for the residents of Newcastle, striving to achieve the values of being Proud, Fair and Ambitious.



What do we offer?

As an employee of NCC, you will have access to:

- A competitive salary

- Access to Local Government pension scheme

- Generous annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually

- Family Supportive Policies

- A bespoke induction

- Agile working, enabling both home working and office based working

- A generous Flexi Scheme

- Access to Occupational Health, Mindfulness sessions and other wellbeing initiatives

- Access to various salary sacrifice schemes – covering cars, white electrical goods and tax efficient saving contributions towards your pension

- Discounted travel passes



What about the Team?

This is a new role in the Adult Social Care & Prevention Directorate sitting within Adult Social CarePoint.



As a key portfolio priority for the coming year, we continue to develop our preventative approach to all interactions with people with care and support needs, to promote independence and ensure the most appropriate, cost effective and least restrictive care.



The role is being created to support this approach, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team at the Directorate’s front door, Adult Social CarePoint (ASCP). ASCP offers a multi-disciplined, responsive service, with the ability to visit people where they are and fully understand their circumstances. This enables us to make prompt interventions, such as equipment and short-term support to help people regain skills and confidence. Through this rapid response, we aim to reduce or negate the need for ongoing support.



What about the Role?

As an Occupational Therapist you will promote best practice in Occupational Therapy across health and social care within the city, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support people to maintain independence, prevent, reduce, or delay care needs, and avoid unnecessary admissions to acute care and residential or nursing care.



As a key member of the MDT, you will work alongside a team of Social Workers, a Physiotherapist, a Falls Prevention Coordinator, Moving and Handling Specialist, Reablement, and health professionals to contribute clinical expertise, reviewing the requirements of people identified as at risk of falls and identifying appropriate intervention support to enable them to remain in their own home for as long as possible, minimising hospital admission or readmission.



This front facing position offers the opportunity to make a real impact at the first point of contact, supporting strengths-based approaches and ensuring timely, appropriate care pathways for adults across a wide range of presentations, including falls, frailty, long-term conditions and hospital discharges.



To apply for this role, you will need to be confident, customer focussed, able to communicate with a wide and varied audience and have a flexible approach to work, meeting challenging deadlines.



If this sounds like job for you, please read the Job Description and Person Specification which will let you know more about the role and the skills and experience needed for the role.



The City Council offers a range of opportunities for training and development to support you to achieve the best outcomes for yourself and the people we support. The wide range of services provided across the Directorate and the Council means that there are always opportunities to develop and grow during your careers with the Council.

We welcome applications from unpaid carers.



If you would like to discuss these opportunities, please contact Claire Alder, Service Manager, Home First on Telephone number 0191 2116457 or Mobile [phone]



Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Before completing the form please ensure you read the supporting documents. Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.



We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.



If you require any assistance completing this application please visit Newcastle Work & Thrive and speak to an advisor:https://www.workandthrivenewcastle.org.uk/