Occupational Therapist - Garden View & Upper Deanfield

Job Description

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Location: Garden View & Upper Deanfield

Hours: 35 hours per week

Grade: 9A

Salary*: £22.98 - £24.82 / £41,950.13 - £45,308.13 per annum

Contract Duration: Permanent

 

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person who is skilled in assessment, reablement, goal setting and moving and handling. You will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to build strong relationships with people, families and colleagues.  You will be joining friendly, dynamic and service user focussed teams in Garden View and Upper Deanfield.

Garden View, in Tweedbank, is an Intermediate Care service providing short term assessment and reablement for people discharged from Borders General Hospital who require additional support prior to returning home.  Garden View has 23 beds across three units with one 8 bed unit providing a specific reablement function.

Upper Deanfield, in Hawick, provides Reablement to 12 service users who are referred from Borders General Hospital and Hawick Community Hospital who require additional support prior to returning home.

Our service is committed to developing effective and efficient ways of enabling people achieve their outcomes. You will deliver a responsive occupational therapy service to undertake assessments that support people to return home.

We are about to embark on developing a Community Reablement Team as a Discharge to Assess service from Garden View and Upper Deanfield.  Your input will be key in supporting this exciting development to help inform an effective model of service delivery.

You will have a sound knowledge of a range of medical conditions and how they affect the person’s ability to function in their home environment.

You must be registered with the Health Care Professions Council.

 

If you would like to discuss this post further, please email Brian Paterson, Manager, Garden View on brian.paterson@scotborders.gov.uk and we can arrange a suitable time for a discussion.

 

Benefits of working for Scottish Borders Council:

• Living Wage Employer

• Access to Blue Light Card discounts and SBC Benefits

• Access Local Government Pension Scheme

• Paid training and the opportunity to gain nationally recognised qualifications

 

Take the first step towards your career in Adult Social Care by applying today!

 

*Please note successful applicants will be placed on the first point of the salary scale unless they meet certain criteria.

 

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be made to Brian Paterson (Brian.Paterson@scotborders.gov.uk)

Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.