Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist
About Us:
Champion person-centred care for older people and adults with physical disabilities.
At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people at the heart of everything we do. Our Integrated Health and Social Care Team is at the forefront, delivering personalised care pathways built around the needs of individuals. From social workers to rehabilitation workers, occupational therapists and related support services, they all share your commitment to social inclusion and accessibility. You’ll play a leading role in promoting quality and best practice.
The Role:
As an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist, you’ll provide professional support, leadership and direction to the multi-disciplinary team. You’ll play a vital part in making sure older people and adults with physical disabilities have their voices heard, and benefit from care that offers choice and control to the individual. You’ll be supporting the team manager in the day to day running of the Reablement service and we’ll look to you to take a lead in identifying and managing risk, including supporting residents with moving, handling and safeguarding needs. You’ll help to manage and shape a front line duty service that facilitates dignity and independence, self-esteem and wellbeing, including to those with complex needs and where statutory interventions are necessary.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
A qualified professional Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration, you have a firm belief that every voice in a community matters. Ideally, you will bring to the role proven experience both in frontline social care and as a practice educator. You will certainly demonstrate real empathy and collaborative spirit, together with the insight and confidence to assess and supervise others, and to ensure everyone delivers on the principles of the Care Act through excellence in practice.
In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent learning and development opportunities.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Interview date: Week Commencing 3rd October 2022
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.