This is a great opportunity to join a nationally recognised and committed team, supporting service users and their carers as a Senior Practitioner in Therapy Services.

Position: Senior Practitioner – Therapy Services

Location: Rutland

Salary: £35,934 - £38,813 (pro-rata) Scale PO2

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Part time, 30 hours per week

Benefits: Amazing benefits available such as a minimum of 24 days annual leave (pro-rata), with a further 5 days added after 5 years’ continuous service, plus 8 days paid bank holidays, a defined benefits pension scheme, payment of fees for membership to one professional body where this is a requirement of your role, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay, special and family leave provisions, Childcare vouchers, occupational health service, lunchtime yoga, circuits and cycle rides, as well as discounted swimming sessions and flexible working policies to enable you to balance work and home commitments

Closing date: Tuesday 18th June 2019 at 5pm Interview date: Week commencing 24th June 2019

Our clients Adult Social Care teams are leading the way in health and social care integration, ensuring the services they deliver meet the needs of their service users in a fully personalized and joined up way.

The Role

The Senior Practitioner will:

• Manage their own complex caseload.
• Be responsible for the operational day to day management of a team of Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and Physiotherapists.
• Developing others, providing clinical advice and support and working closely with the management team to continually develop the service offered.

About You

As Senior Practitioner you will have:

• Previous experience working as an Occupational Therapist, ideally in a community, hospital or adult social care setting,
• Experience of supervising staff, monitoring and allocating workloads.
• A good understanding of risk management, particularly around complex and high risk issues,
• Be able to develop effective working relationships with partner agencies to from a multi-disciplinary team.
• A Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy with current HCPC registration

In return…

Work that makes a difference to people’s lives within this beautiful county and a really amazing benefits package! Our client act as ‘One Council’ in all they do, with each of them working together in the most effective way to meet the needs of customers every day – if you share this ethos then they very much want to hear from you.

About the Organisation…

A County Council based in Rutland, they are the smallest Unitary Authority in England, but just because they are a small team does not mean they cannot make a big difference, multum-in parvo is their motto! They offer fantastic opportunities to make a real difference to the lives of residents in the local community – it really is one of the best places to live, learn, work, play and visit.

Our client is committed to Equality and Diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. The successful applicant for this post will be subject to an enhanced check by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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