Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist – Children’s Services
Liquid Personnel
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist for its client’s community-based service based in Enfield. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to work across children's and adult social care services, supporting complex cases while providing leadership and supervision to colleagues.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will:
- Assess children with physical disabilities, including autism.
- Complete assessments for specialist equipment, seating, and home adaptations.
- Undertake moving and handling assessments and Occupational Therapy housing assessments.
- Provide clinical guidance, advice, and support to Occupational Therapy colleagues.
- Line manage two Occupational Therapists working across adult and children's caseloads.
- Manage complex assessments and collaborate with families, carers, and multidisciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have:
- A recognised Occupational Therapy qualification.
- Current HCPC registration.
- Experience working with children in a community, health, or social care setting.
- Experience assessing and recommending equipment, adaptations, and moving & handling solutions.
- Previous experience within adult social care services.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or line managing Occupational Therapists.
- Strong assessment, communication, organisational, and case management skills.
Benefits:
- Referral bonus available for successful recommendations of friends or colleagues.
Interested?
Apply now or get in touch with us to learn more about this opportunity.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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About this role
Liquid Personnel's client is seeking a Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist to lead a community-based children's services team in Enfield. You would assess children with physical disabilities and autism, recommend specialist equipment and home adaptations, and conduct moving and handling evaluations. Beyond direct clinical work, you'd provide supervision and line management to two Occupational Therapists, offering guidance across both children's and adult caseloads while managing complex cases in collaboration with families and multidisciplinary teams.
This role requires HCPC registration and a recognized OT qualification, along with demonstrated experience assessing and recommending equipment and adaptations in community or health settings. You should have prior experience in adult social care and a track record of supervising or managing OT colleagues. Strong assessment, communication, and case management skills are essential for success.
Liquid Personnel offers practical support including free DBS processing, twice-weekly payroll options, and access to their exclusive CPD training portal. They also provide referral bonuses—£500 for placing social work colleagues and £250 if you bring your own position to them—plus a dedicated consultant familiar with social work recruitment.
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