Job Description:
Occupational Therapist (Social & Healthcare Qualified)
Location: East Cornwall (County-wide coverage)
Contract Type: Temporary
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 27 February 2026
Hours: Ideally full-time (negotiable)
Salary: £21.57 per hour
Dress Code: Smart/Casual
Required Attendance: Face-to-face visits required weekly
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Adult Social Care service on a temporary basis. This community-focused role will support our strategic savings plan for 2025/26 by delivering optimal care, reducing reliance on long-term care packages, and promoting independence for adults across Cornwall.
The role is county-wide, working flexibly across East Cornwall and in alignment with other Occupational Therapy roles. You will operate as an autonomous practitioner within a complex and varied community caseload, providing specialist assessments, interventions, equipment recommendations and adaptations.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
1. Prioritising and monitoring OT referrals, providing advice to Social Workers, Technical Officers, Case Coordinators, Adult Social Care staff and external agencies.
2. Acting as a point of contact for advice and enquiries relating to community OT services.
3. Conducting complex assessments including risk assessments, and delivering specialist interventions.
4. Managing a complex community caseload, prioritising your workload within conflicting demands.
5. Completing face-to-face home visits to assess, plan and evaluate services alongside service users, carers and professionals.
6. Providing training and guidance to service users and carers to support independent living.
7. Working with people with complex and varied needs, including physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health challenges and terminal illness.
8. Recommending and facilitating major and minor adaptations, ensuring technical feasibility and safe use.
9. Carrying out risk assessments for community equipment and demonstrating safe use to service users and carers.
10. Responding to urgent referrals as required.
11. Contributing to staff development, induction programmes, case coordinator training and manual handling guidance.
12. Supporting service innovation and identifying creative solutions to workload and organisational pressures.
13. Maintaining accurate written and electronic records, professional reports and assessments.
14. Using evidence-based practice, audit and outcome measures to evaluate and improve services.
15. Assisting in recruitment processes when required.
16. Working in line with Health & Safety, equality of opportunity principles, and professional standards including the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics.
About You
We are looking for experienced community-based Occupational Therapists who:
17. Have experience within Adult Social Care (highly desirable).
18. Are confident managing a varied and challenging community caseload.
19. Can carry out regular face-to-face home visits.
20. Have strong interpersonal and communication skills, including handling sensitive and complex information.
21. Are able to work autonomously and collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams.
22. Are committed to continuous professional development.
Essential Qualifications & Requirements
23. Degree in Occupational Therapy
24. HCPC Registration
25. Full driving licence, access to a car and ability to use it for work
26. Experience working in Housing Occupational Therapy departments
27. Strong IT skills
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Occupational Therapist looking for a meaningful temporary role supporting adults across Cornwall, we would welcome your application.
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