Application Deadline: 21st April 2024

Shortlisting Date: 23rd April 2024

Interview Date: 2nd May 2024

Interview Type: In person

 

Your Role 

 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Occupational Therapist, who would thrive on the opportunity to drive service improvements and make the most of their potential as part of a high achieving, well established service with the reputation for excellence.

 

 

As a Qualified and Registered Occupational Therapist, you will manage a complex caseload providing assessments and advice around a wide range of assistive equipment, housing adaptations, and moving and handling. 

 

Assessing adults in line with The Care Act 2014 you will support a person’s well-being by delivering on interventions that maximise their strengths and enable the person to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible and to help reduce their needs around care. 

 

 

Stockport’s Adult Social Care’s vision is to help the people of Stockport live their best lives possible through promoting independence, working with our partners, and empowering our staff to provide high quality support for residents that is appropriate for their needs. Our Equipment, Adaptation and Sensory Team is a key and valued service within the Adult Social Care Operating Model.

 

The team consists of Occupational Therapists, Moving and Handling Coordinators, Equipment and Adaptation Officers, Rehabilitation Officers Visual Impairment, triage and admin support and a Handypersons Service. Together we provide the residents of Stockport with appropriate assistive equipment, adaptations, advice and information and training according to their needs. 

 

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do. 

 

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

 

 

Job Profile 

 

 

 

Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.

 

We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce.   We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.

 

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://greater.jobs/content/13405/greater-manchester-guaranteed-assessment-scheme