Senior Occupational Therapist

Newcastle upon Tyne – across several homelessness service locations.

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw Monday to Friday, flexible working)

Salary circa £33, 250 to £49, 819 negotiable based on skills and experience plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

We’re looking for a brilliant Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Newcastle Homelessness Supported Accommodation services. We are responsible for the development of a Psychologically Informed Environment across our services. We deliver a clinical, trauma informed support model to customers and deliver training and support to our support colleagues to help them develop the skills in this area.

We operate across Newcastle boundaries in a vary of settings which include both hostel accommodation and dispersed properties across the community. We work with customers who have a range of complex needs, the main presentation being homelessness but also including health, including mental health, related issues, offending behaviour and addiction. Our service enables customers to move from 24 hour supported accommodation to semi-independent supported accommodation in the community and then on to full independence.

Typical day as a Senior Occupational Therapist

• You’ll lead on the assessment and management of arrange of complex occupational therapy needs, providing clinical advice to our colleagues on the day to day support customers need.
• You’ll work closely with our support team to deliver personalised interventions and behaviour support plans
• You’ll identify where skills development is required so our customers can achieve their goals through everyday activities.
• You’ll support the development of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) within our services.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work Employer!

You bring

• You’ll hold relevant professional qualifications including HCPC Occupational Therapist
• Experience of working with people who have complex needs including learning disabilities, mental health and autistic spectrum disorder.
• You’ll really impress us with your ability to understand where our customers are in their lives, using evidence-based practice and current occupational therapy-based interventions
• You’ll use your OT specialism to support our customers in a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led way
• To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!

Our team

You’ll join Garry who will be your line manager, and our Newcastle Partnership Team. Garry has worked for Home Group for 14 years and is an avid Newcastle fan and loves outdoor pursuits and travel You’ll join our expanding clinical team across the organisation, and you’ll receive clinical supervision from Heather, Regional Clinical Lead, who loves paddle boarding and swimming in the North Sea.

Job details

• Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
• You’ll be autonomous, managing your diary based on the clinical need, where our customers need you. What’s great is we’re all about work/life balance here!
• This is a hybrid role and you’ll spend 1 days working at home and 4 days working from our Newcastle service locations in both the east and west end of the city.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We’re Investors in People Platinum employer, a Great Place to Work and 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing”
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Senior Occupational Therapist Job description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk