Occupational Therapist

We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience By clicking the Accept button, you agree to us doing so. Accept No, thanks Skip to main content Main navigation My B&D Logout Search Search Services Help improve your council website! We're redesigning our website and we'd love your help! Whether you've got two minutes or twenty, every piece of feedback helps us create a better experience. See the surveys available right now Hide Occupational Therapist Apply online About this job We are looking for 2 experienced and dynamic Occupational Therapist to join our innovative and friendly Enabling Independence Team within Integrated Care Service. Enabling Independence Team support Adults and Children with disabilities across London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to live safely and independently in the community. These are permanent positions where the successful candidates will be involved in developing occupational therapy plans in response to the need for specialist equipment, home adaptations, assistive technology and appropriate housing solutions to promote the independence of adults and children with disabilities. You will positively contribute to the achievement of joint working by referring, liaising, consulting and collaborating effectively with other professionals; working with the statutory, voluntary and private sectors to identify and meet the needs of service users, families and carers. Note for candidates Please refer to the person specification areas marked AF1-6 in the Job Description to see the areas for response in your application. As part of our values-based recruitment, we are looking for candidates to respond to the five council DRIVE Values – Deliver, Respond, Inspire, Value and Engage. For this role we are particularly looking for candidates that can Deliver, Inspire and Engage as per the JDPS. Special requirements for this post You will be a qualified OT and have an up to date registration with HCPC This post carries a requirement to have an Enhanced DBS check for both Children and Adults.   About you A qualified OT with experience and knowledge of moving and handling, major adaptations, and an ability to supervise OTAs or trusted assessors. You will be passionate, caring and dedicated as well as being someone who is able to think outside the box and develop creative solutions. You are committed to relationship-based practice in all your interactions with staff and service users. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with a broad range of people and partners, including working respectfully with clients, and families and wider systems partnerships in a truly co-productive way that encourages individuals to develop their own solutions and to identify what support they require. Your strong interpersonal skills will allow you to work to deliver innovative and integrated services that provide value for money. You will be keen to develop yourself, your practice and drive up practice standards. You should aspire to be the very best in everything you do.   About us Barking & Dagenham is changing. It Starts Here. Think you know Barking and Dagenham? Think again. While this small corner of east London might have a reputation for needing development, scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find active communities and a place that consistently punches above its weight. The borough is changing – and changing for the better. And It Starts Here. Yes, the borough has its challenges. But it’s on the cusp of something exciting. With one of the youngest populations in the country, ambitions are high and rightly so. 98% of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding and every year more of our talented teenagers get into Russell Group Universities and hotly sought after apprenticeship schemes. We have award winning parks, centuries old manor houses full of relics and artifacts you can go and see, and the ruins of one of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and wealthiest