Occupational Therapist – Urgent Response Team

Liquid Personnel is seeking a proactive and motivated Occupational Therapist to join its client's Urgent Response Occupational Therapy Team based in Barnet. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a specialist service providing rapid assessments and interventions for residents at immediate risk of injury, helping to prevent hospital admissions and support safe community living.

The Role:

Working across the London Borough of Barnet, you will undertake urgent Occupational Therapy and Moving & Handling Risk Assessments for complex cases requiring timely intervention.

This is a busy and rewarding role that requires strong clinical reasoning, excellent manual handling expertise, and the ability to work independently while contributing positively to a close-knit team.

The successful candidate will participate in a weekly Duty OT rota and work closely with colleagues to deliver a responsive and high-quality service.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Complete urgent Occupational Therapy assessments across the borough.
• Undertake complex moving and handling risk assessments.
• Assess and recommend specialist equipment and interventions.
• Support carers and service users where there is a high risk of injury.
• Contribute to safeguarding investigations relating to equipment and manual handling concerns.
• Assess requests for increased care packages where manual handling assessments are required.
• Respond to urgent referrals involving unsafe transfers, mobility issues, and equipment failures.
• Work collaboratively with health, social care, and community partners.

Referral Criteria Includes:

You will assess referrals involving:

• Unsafe transfers and mobility situations presenting an immediate risk of injury.
• High-risk moving and handling concerns affecting service users or carers.
• Safeguarding concerns relating to equipment or manual handling.
• Equipment that is no longer fit for purpose and presents a significant safety risk.
• Requests for increased care support requiring specialist manual handling assessments.
• Palliative care cases where alternative specialist services are not involved.

Benefits:

• £36.00 per hour
• Hybrid working model
• Supportive and experienced team environment
• Varied and rewarding urgent response caseload
• Opportunity to make an immediate impact on service users' safety and independence

Referral Bonus Available!

Refer an Occupational Therapist with strong moving and handling experience and earn a referral bonus if they're successfully placed.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration
• Extensive experience in moving and handling assessments
• Strong knowledge of equipment provision and risk management
• Ability to work autonomously and manage a demanding caseload
• Experience within community, adult social care, urgent response, or hospital discharge services
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills
• A proactive and positive approach to teamwork
• A car driver is preferred due to the borough-wide nature of the role.

Working Pattern:

• 1–2 days per week in the office
• Thursday is the team's designated office day
• Hybrid working available for the remainder of the week
• Monthly formal supervision plus ongoing day-to-day support

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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