Job Description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Occupational Therapy Practitioner to join an innovative Adult Social Care service in Brighton & Hove for its client.
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to support the development and delivery of a new Reablement Front Door Pilot, helping shape the future of Adult Social Care through early intervention, strengths-based practice, and service transformation.

What will your responsibilities be?

As the Senior Occupational Therapy Practitioner, you will provide professional Occupational Therapy leadership while overseeing the operational delivery of a multidisciplinary team within the Access to Adult Social Care service.

You will play a key role in ensuring people receive timely reablement support at the first point of contact, promoting independence, reducing demand for long-term care, and improving overall system flow.

Alongside day-to-day leadership, you will contribute to the ongoing development and evaluation of the pilot, using performance data and service insights to help shape future models of care.

• Lead and manage the Reablement Front Door pilot service.
• Provide expert Occupational Therapy leadership and clinical oversight.
• Line manage and support a multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver strengths-based assessments and interventions that maximise independence.
• Drive service improvement and transformation initiatives.
• Monitor performance, quality assurance, governance, and data quality.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners.
• Support pilot evaluation and evidence gathering to inform future service development.

Benefits:

• Competitive rate of £38 per hour
• Flexible locum opportunity
• Supportive management team
• Opportunity to influence and develop a new service model
• Weekly payroll
• Dedicated consultant support throughout your placement

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

• Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration.
• Significant experience within Adult Social Care and reablement services.
• Previous leadership or management experience.
• Proven involvement in service improvement or transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of strengths-based practice and multidisciplinary working.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.

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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