Job Title:
Senior Occupational Therapist
Starting Salary:
£42,839 opportunity to progress to £47,181 per annum + £1000 welcome payment, lease car & relocation - terms apply
Hours:
37
Location:
Stevenage
Contract Type:
Permanent/Fixed Term
Directorate:
Adult Care Services
About The Team
Our Connected Lives Gateway Service
is a County Wide multi-disciplinary service delivering social care solutions to all age adults.
This service is the front door to Adult Social Care in Hertfordshire and aims to prevent, reduce and delay need by ensuring people can access a wide range of information, advice, and support in a timely way. Our focus is on prevention and enablement, connecting people to their communities and delivering interventions that lead to improved outcomes.
Gateway Connections
Stevenage
This multi-disciplinary team of occupational therapists, social workers and community care officers works flexibly, both from the office and remote locations, to bring together a vast amount of experience and skill in providing initial assessments and tailored information to new people approaching adult social care.
You would be working alongside a variety of partners for an initial assessment and intervention service of up to 12 weeks for adults over the age of 18, achieving the best preventative solutions
Older People Team - Stevenage
Could you bring your experience and passion for improving outcomes for people over age 65 and their carers with social care needs to the Older Person Service?
We are re-energising our adult social care model of Connected Lives approach that has a strong ethos of strength-based working, identifying personal goals and ensuring personal, family and community resources are utilised to achieve positive outcomes for people.
The Older Person Service is a dynamic service that works across the community under the Care Act to safeguard, assess, plan support and review adults and cares with long term health and social care needs.
Adult Disability Team -
Stevenage - Fixed Term contract to February 2026
Providing support to adults living with a learning or physical disability.
We aim to enable people to make positive decisions in their lives, promote their independence and ensure they can get involved in their local community. We're a service motivated by and dedicated to social care intervention and community social work.
We work in an enabling way with people and their families and carers, to promote independence and participation, through meaningful occupation and a strengths-based approach. Across all our services we aim to ensure that people are provided with the right support and advice, and at the right time.
About The Role
About the role:
* Working collaboratively with other partners and teams within Adult Care Services
* Developing innovative support plans
* Promote and support strength based assessment and practice approach to all interventions to maximise independence, health and well being to prevent or reduce the need for Adult Social Care
* Working creatively with residents to ensure their safety and independence
* Raising awareness in the area and developing valuable links for the team
* Supporting other Therapists and Community Care Officers
* Provide information and advice to enable an individual to confidently and safely participate in their daily life, includes grading of tasks and activities and adapting their environments
* You will undertake a specialism eg Moving and Handling, BiA, AMP or Occupational Therapy practice educator
About You
Essential:
* HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist
* Full driving licence and regular access to a vehicle
* 2 years post qualifying experience as an Occupational Therapist
* Knowledge and experience in social care sector
* Experience of completing assessments and making recommendations
* Ability to work on your own as well as part of a team
Desirable
* Knowledge of Care Act 2014
* Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act 2005
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is within the HSC, level JF11 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles - Health and social care
To hear more about this opportunity please contact for an informal discussion about the role.
Applications will be considered as an when received and interviews arranged accordingly
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving Required
You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.