Occupational Therapist – Adult Social Care

Occupational Therapist – Adult Social Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist to join its client’s Haverhill Area Integrated Team within Adult Social Care. This is a full-time agency role offering £35 per hour and an excellent opportunity to work within a supportive community-based service, helping adults maintain their independence and improve their quality of life.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will manage a varied Adult Social Care caseload, carrying out functional assessments, recommending equipment and adaptations, supporting reablement interventions, and working closely with health and social care partners to deliver positive outcomes for residents across the local community.

The role offers a flexible hybrid working arrangement, with an expectation of approximately 2 days per week in the office and the remainder based remotely or within the community.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Managing a diverse and increasingly complex Adult Social Care Occupational Therapy caseload
• Completing strengths-based and person-centred assessments with adults and carers
• Conducting functional assessments to promote independence and wellbeing
• Responding to urgent moving and handling referrals
• Developing, implementing, and reviewing reablement plans
• Setting goals and outcomes collaboratively with service users and carers
• Recommending equipment, adaptations, and alternative techniques to support daily living
• Completing assessments for major and minor adaptations
• Assessing Community Equipment Service (CES) requirements
• Liaising with housing providers and home improvement agencies
• Identifying specialist equipment needs and ensuring best-value solutions
• Working closely with health professionals, voluntary organisations, and partner agencies
• Maintaining accurate records, reports, and recommendations
• Applying Care Act legislation and Adult Social Care best practice
• Providing professional Occupational Therapy advice and guidance to colleagues where required

Benefits of the role

• £35.00 per hour umbrella rate
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Full-time 37-hour working week
• Opportunity for contract extensions
• Diverse and rewarding community-based caseload
• Supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team environment
• Opportunity to make a real difference to people’s independence and wellbeing

Qualifications and Experience Required

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
• Experience working within Adult Social Care or community Occupational Therapy settings
• Strong assessment, clinical reasoning, and problem-solving skills
• Experience completing moving and handling assessments
• Knowledge of specialist equipment and adaptation processes
• Ability to manage an autonomous caseload effectively
• Excellent communication and partnership-working skills
• Good understanding of Care Act duties and Adult Social Care legislation
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (essential)

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Access to exclusive roles not available elsewhere
• Your own dedicated consultant
• Access to training and continuing professional development
• Referral bonus scheme*
• Fast and reliable payroll

Relevant notes about the employer and terms

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.