Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to work across Cambridgeshire within our Prevention and Early Intervention services. The aim of the service is to identify, prevent, reduce and delay the need for both short- and long-term care and support. It comprises of the Adult Early Help team, Reablement, Technology Enabled Care, Sensory Services and Occupational Therapy.
We play a crucial role in preventing admissions, promoting single handed care through specialist assessment and equipment provision, signposting, problem solving, facilitating discharges, and acting as a link between health and social care.
This project will be focusing on the proactive review of people receiving double handed care and support. Occupational therapy assessment will aim to determine whether the provision of moving and handling equipment, information and advice, and support to care staff, can optimise these packages of care.
This is a hybrid post. Working from home with multiple office bases around county including March, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and Cambridge. Dependant on location of employee.
The role is offered on a full-time basis (37 hours per week) as a 12 month fixed term opportunity.
Interviews are planned for the week beginning the 24th of March.
We will honour any continuous service in terms of annual leave entitlement for staff joining us from other local authorities or NHS trusts.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the role or employee benefits, please call Occupational Therapy Team Manager Rebecca Marr on 07712251427.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
You will be educated to Degree or Diploma level in a subject recognised by the College of Occupational Therapy and have experience in assessing moving and handling, and optimising care/ single handed care.
You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle.
We have office bases across Cambridgeshire and the post holders work base may be negotiable dependant on the needs of the service.
We work in an agile way, and home working for a proportion of the working week will be supported.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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