Resident Wellbeing Occupational Therapist Consultant - FTC (18 Months)

At TLC Care, our focus is on quality of life, and our approach to specialised nursing, residential, and dementia care is, we believe, second to none. We have dedicated, highly-trained carers and nurses on hand 24 hours a day to provide assistance tailored to each resident\’s needs and wishes.

We have an exciting opportunity for a creative, passionate, and dedicated individual to join our team as a Resident Wellbeing OT Consultant.

You will be responsible for leading a team to plan, design, organise, and deliver engaging, person-centred activities and lifestyle opportunities that enable our residents\’ wishes to come true.

You will create a stimulating environment that promotes lifestyle choices, happiness, development, and fun, while leading our team in accordance with our TLC values.

We are seeking an outgoing individual who strives to make a daily difference in the lives of our residents and supports a one-team approach, working collaboratively with team members, residents, and relatives.

The Resident Wellbeing OT Consultant will be required to:

• Establish a process for assessing leisure, social, and emotional needs.
• Create internal and external frameworks for providing leisure, social, and emotional support.
• Develop processes to make leisure, social, and emotional activities accessible to the elderly, regardless of physical or cognitive frailty.
• Design programs aimed at preventing isolation and ill-being among the elderly, regardless of frailty level.
• Lead, teach, and coach teams of Activities and Wellbeing leads and facilitators to develop care planning competencies that address individual and group leisure, social, and emotional needs, goals, and aspirations.
• Support the development of co-production skills in personalising and empowering elderly residents to organise their environment, access technologies, and establish routines supporting their leisure, social, and emotional needs.
• Develop induction and training modules for Activities and Wellbeing leads and facilitators to support these initiatives.

You will support the Leadership Team on our journey to achieve outstanding care.

We offer a competitive salary, career development opportunities, enriching learning programs, and the chance to make a positive impact every day.

Requirements:

• Occupational Therapy and/or Learning Disability professional qualification.
• Ability to travel within Surrey and Cambridgeshire.
• Excellent verbal, written, and IT skills for communication, presentation, mentoring, and coaching, with the ability to make information accessible.
• A positive, resourceful, people-centric individual capable of sharing, communicating, and driving vision and project goals.

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