Occupational Therapist Immediate Start London Based

This London Authority are looking for a Qualified Occupational Therapist to work within an First Response, Reablement and the Assessment Service. Details of the role are:

1. To provide an initial assessment of service users with complex care and therapy needs across the teams within the Access and Independence Service: First Response, Reablement and the Assessment Service.

2. Support service users to set client centred goals to promote independence and wellbeing in the home environment. Facilitate service user choice and empowerment through promoting independence, the timely provision of information, advice and support using evidence-based interventions to ensure service users maintain independence for as long as possible.

3. Assessment and provision of equipment to improve independence with activities of daily living and to reduce risk of injury. This includes manual handling assessments to reduce risk of injury to service users and carers and, where feasible, reduce packages of care for single handed care.

4. To independently manage a caseload, utilising effective prioritisation, delegation and time management skills to enable effective throughput of service users.

5. To identify service users appropriate for Continuing Health Care to manage complex health needs

6. To identify Safeguarding concerns, complete thorough risk assessment and refer where appropriate to services to manage risk of harm ...