Stable 6 months+ contracts | Flexible, Hybrid Working | Project-Type Team
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with a passion for enabling safe, person-centred care while promoting independence?
We are seeking a confident and resilient OT to support proportionate care reviews across home-care packages. You will use your moving and handling expertise, equipment knowledge, and professional judgement to identify where single-handed care can be introduced safely and appropriately—reducing unnecessary double-handed care without compromising quality, dignity, or outcomes.
The role
You will work flexibly across a hybrid model, completing assessments, collaborating with care providers and families, and delivering practical recommendations that support safer, more independent daily living.
A key part of the role is building trust with stakeholders: clearly explaining how equipment, adapted techniques, and effective moving and handling plans can make one-carer support safe and sustainable.
Key responsibilities
- Conduct holistic, person-centred assessments of home-care packages.
- Review double-handed care arrangements and identify opportunities for safe single-handed care.
- Recommend and assess suitable equipment, including hoists, slings, transfer aids, and other assistive technology.
- Develop practical moving and handling plans and support their implementation.
- Work closely with service users, families, care agencies, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Provide clear professional rationale and reassurance when proposing reductions in care provision.
- Ensure all recommendations prioritise safety, choice, dignity, independence, and positive risk-taking.
- Monitor outcomes and ensure changes are only made when clinically appropriate and safe.
About you
You will be an experienced Occupational Therapist with a strong background in moving and handling, community practice, and equipment provision. You will be comfortable managing sensitive conversations and professionally challenging assumptions where a package of care may be more than is required.
We are looking for someone with:
- Occupational Therapy qualification and HCPC registration.
- Strong practical knowledge of moving and handling techniques, risk assessment, equipment, hoisting, and sling selection.
- Experience reviewing care packages, ideally including proportionate care or single-handed care assessments.
- The confidence to influence care providers and partner organisations through sound clinical reasoning.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and report-writing skills.
- A resilient, professional, and compassionate approach.
- A genuine commitment to person-centred practice—recognising that reductions should onlybe made where they are demonstrably safe and in the individual’s best interests.
What’s on offer
- £26 per hour
- Highly flexible working arrangements
- Hybrid working model
- Meaningful work that promotes independence and improves care outcomes
- Opportunity to use specialist moving and handling expertise in a supportive, forward-thinking service
If you are an OT who can balance clinical safety with independence, and who has the confidence to champion proportionate, high-quality care, we would love to hear from you.
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