Occupational Therapist - START Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting for an Occupational Therapist to join its client's Short-Term Assessment and Reablement Team (START) in Derbyshire Dales.

This is a rewarding opportunity to support adults following hospital discharge or during periods of crisis, delivering strengths-based, short-term interventions that maximise independence, promote recovery, and reduce long-term care needs.

What will your responsibilities be?

As part of the START Team, you will:

• Complete Occupational Therapy assessments in the community
• Support safe and timely hospital discharges
• Assess for equipment, adaptations, and reablement needs
• Develop person-centred care plans that promote independence
• Work collaboratively with service users, carers, health professionals, and multidisciplinary teams
• Manage your own caseload while maintaining high professional standards

Qualifications & Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have, HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist (Dip OT or equivalent)
• Experience assessing adults with physical and sensory disabilities
• Knowledge of Community Care and Disability legislation
• Strong communication, assessment, and care planning skills
• A flexible, person-centred approach with a passion for helping people achieve meaningful outcomes
• 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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