Liquid Personnel

Occupational Therapist - Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health

Liquid Personnel  •  Suffolk, VA (Hybrid)  •  7 days ago
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Job Description

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to support their Adult Social Care Directorate, focusing on Learning Disabilities, Autism, and Mental Health services.
This role is key to supporting waiting list reduction, proactive reviews, and improving service efficiency across multiple localities.

What will your responsibilities be?

  • Deliver front-line Occupational Therapy assessments and reviews across the directorate
  • Undertake proactive reviews of care packages to ensure best value and effectiveness
  • Support waiting list reduction through efficient triage and intervention
  • Reduce duplication between health and social care services
  • Review:
    • Double-handed care packages
    • Waking night support
    • Existing care provisions
  • Provide guidance to external care providers on safe moving & handling practices
  • Work collaboratively across multiple OT teams providing mutual aid where required
  • Maintain accurate records and contribute to service data collection

Benefits:

  • £35 p/h on a longer-term 6-month contract
  • Flexible hybrid working model
  • Opportunity to work locality-wide across varied services
  • Strong focus on autonomy and impact (waiting list reduction)

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

  • Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
  • HCPC Registration
  • Strong experience within:
    • Adult Social Care
    • Learning Disabilities / Autism / Mental Health
  • Manual Handling experience (essential)
  • Strong assessment and review skills

Key Skills

  • Ability to manage a busy and varied caseload
  • Strong analytical and review skills
  • Confident working across multiple teams and localities
  • Excellent communication and partnership working

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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Liquid Personnel

About Liquid Personnel

Liquid Personnel is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy. Founded in 2006, we are now the leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.

We also specialise in the following divisions:

• Nursing - temporary and permanent nurses

• Allied Health Professionals - temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists

• Criminal Justice - temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers

Accreditations:

- Listed in the UK's Best Medium Workplaces Awards 2013 - 2017; winners of the Laureate Award 2017, recognising that we have been ranked in the awards for 5 years in a row

- 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2016

- Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award 2016 at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards

- 7th fastest-growing business in the Manchester area in the Greater Manchester Fastest 50 2016

- 11th in Recruiter Fast 50 2016 rankings

- Winners of "Best Large Recruitment Agency"​ at the Recruitment Business Awards 2015

- Holders of Investors in People status

- Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Members

- 'Disability Confident Employers'​

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Manchester, GB
Year Founded
2006
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