Pertemps are looking for a full time experienced Occupational Therapist to support children, adults, and their carers, who are ordinary residents in Southend, playing a key role in promoting independence, wellbeing, and choice by providing a proactive, preventative, strengths-based intervention.
Occupational Therapist, £36,648, Southend, Perm role
The successful candidate will manage a caseload whilst operating within the Occupational Therapy professional standards (Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics - RCOT) and carrying out strengths-based statutory assessments.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community.
We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
We are recruiting for registered Nurses (RGN, RMN, RNLD), Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Paramedics in Southend who want to use their clinical skills applied in a new way and benefit from the excellent work life balance and professional development that a career as a Functional Assessor can give you.
To carry out out telephone, video and/ or face-to-face functional assessments to establish any functional restriction caused by a claimant's health condition and or disability and to evaluate the overall functional effects on their everyday life, following the PIP and/or WCA guidelines.
Assessors will be expected to use DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) processes and systems and conduct high quality assessments in an empathetic and professional manner.
Are you an aspiring speech and language therapist seeking the opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a primary school setting?
Would you like to work closely with qualified professionals who are on hand to help and support you?
Perhaps you have recently graduated and are looking for a role where you can put into practice everything you have learned and make a real difference to children's lives?
Are you an RGN, RMN or OT who wants to continue helping people but needs a better work-life balance and to use your clinical skills in a different way and help people move forward with their lives.
We are currently recruiting for a Functional Assessor in Southend
Annual salary range - £39,500 per annum plus attractive benefits
The Health Assessment Advisory Service arranges and carries out assessments for DWP.
We have been awarded the Health Assessment Advisory Service contract for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in South East England, London, and East Anglia.
This new service will launch in 2024 and will run for at least five years.