Location
Brentwood
Department
Sport For Confidence
Advertising Salary
£35,875 - £43,050 FTE DOE
Function
Allied Health Professionals
Careers Site Advertising End Date
28 Jan 2025
Vacancy
8758
About the Role

Sport for Confidence has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced senior occupational therapist (OT) to join our team on a part-time basis, although full-time hours can be considered for the right applicant. This role will be based in the Brentwood community with also home working and working from our Chelmsford head office. 

The occupational therapist will be focusing on the delivery of a specialist occupational therapy service to improve primary care services in the south of Essex to deliver two occupational therapy streams. These are;
  • Ensure that people with a learning disability and/or autism have a better experience and more say over the healthcare services they receive.
  • Provide specialist occupational therapy for people who are frail in the community; connecting them back to meaningful activities, community assets and increasing physical activity.
Using community-based interventions and promoting the occupational therapy profession as a key role in tackling health inequalities and empowering people with a learning disability and/or autism and healthcare services to actively promote and manage their own health and wellbeing.
 
Key responsibilities include;
  • Deliver the Primary Care Network (PCN) service
  • Deliver the innovation and impact funding requirements as part of the PCN
  • Increase uptake of learning disability reviews
  • Provide input for patients who are frail in the community (both domiciliary and centrally) who would benefit from OT input.
  • Conduct home and community visits to patients, assessing, planning and delivering interventions. 
  • Conduct physical and psychosocial assessments that consider management of long term health conditions, leisure and social participation.
  • Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment plans to enhance patients' productivity, self-care, and physical activity.
  • Offer guidance to patients, their families, and carers on using specialist equipment and accessing community resources to support meaningful daily activities.
Please see job description attached for more information. 
About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications and registrations, either in place:

  • Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy. 
  • Registered with HCPC.
  • Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
  • Knowledge of safeguarding issues and requirements/legislation and how these apply to the role.
  • In-depth knowledge of working with people with varying conditions including physical disabilities, mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism and dementia.
  • Ability to empathise with service users, carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved and maintained.
  • Ability to prioritise workload.
  • Ability to deal with exposure to emergency and stressful situations. 
  • IT skills, experience using Zoom, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 
About Us
Sport for Confidence (CIC) centres the needs of people and communities furthest away from sport and physical activity. We work locally and nationally [in spaces and places] making use of the combined expertise of participants, occupational therapists and sports coaches, working together to ensure systems and services are able to meet the needs of diverse communities.
 
Benefits include;
  • 33 days annual leave including bank holidays (pro-rata).
  • Flexible working.
  • Excellent training opportunities. 
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Dog friendly office.
  • Eyecare scheme. 
  • EAP 
If you would like to discuss the job over the telephone, please contact any of the below: Kimberley Dutton, primary care lead: 07561853044 or Jake Turner, operations director: 07566200070. 

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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