Occupational Therapy Care Manager WCC620117

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,861 - £50,646 per annum
Work location: 215 Lisson Grove, London NW8 8LW
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent 
Vetting requirements: Enhanced  DBS Check  
Closing date:  18 March 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF INDEPENDENT LIVES

Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where our passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.

Mrs D was frail and unwell. Her son was her main carer, but he wasn’t coping. We stepped in to help, but they were hostile to outside agencies. They’d always lived together and were terrified they’d be split up. Our social worker did a great job persuading Mrs D to get hospital treatment and a temporary stay in a care home. In an epic effort throughout COVID, she gained the son’s trust and sorted all the repairs, carers and nurses needed so that Mrs D could come home to live with her son. We also got Mr D regular respite and a personal budget awarded in recognition of him as her carer. After all, there’s nothing more important than living the life you want.

The Role:

As an Occupational Therapy Care Manager you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Joining the Community Independence Service (CIS), which is an integrated service focusing on hospital avoidance and delivering clinically appropriate care in the community, the Reablement Team facilitates early supported discharge from hospital by offering a goal orientated plan to help promote health and independence. It’ll be your task to deliver skilled Occupational Therapy interventions to people in their own homes, and make assessments on the eligibility for long term care and support.

Managing your own caseload, working closely with Reablement care providers, and providing goal plans and feedback, you’ll be responsible for implementing moving and handling plans, and assisting with hospital discharges. You’ll also be expected to undertake a duty OT role on a rotational basis, work that will include responding to emergency visits and covering for allocated cases.

Your additional responsibilities will be wide ranging, and include demonstrating and instructing service users and their family or carers on the correct use and maintenance of any equipment we provide, and identifying any safeguarding enquiries and concerns. Working in partnership with voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure our users have access to all the information and support they need, you’ll also work on your own skills and knowledge, and keep up to date with developments in the Occupational Therapy profession and the provision of Social Care. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With a degree or its equivalent in Occupational Therapy, HCPC registration and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting and with adults with disabilities within the community, ideally within their own homes, you’ll have practical experience of completing complex movement and handing assessments and support plans. We’ll also expect you to be capable of exploring equipment options that enable people to be safe and independent, and possess the expertise to recommend options that reduce the need for double handed care.

This is a role where your superb communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills will be put to good use, and you’ll be a confident and proficient user of a wide range of IT programmes and software including Mosaic, System1 and the MS Office suite of software. With the ability to maintain concise and accurate records of assessments, interventions and contacts with individuals, relatives and fellow professionals, you’ll also be capable of educating and teaching others to participate in ongoing rehabilitation and reablement goal programmes. In addition, you’ll have practical experience of completing complex movement and handing assessments, and support plans.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. 

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.