Our Occupational Therapists oversee a clinical caseload and provide specialist assessments, clinical diagnoses and interventions to support people to achieve their goals and overcome the challenges they face when completing everyday activities.
In this role, you’ll have sufficient time to make a real difference to the lives of those in your care.
Being an Occupational Therapist with us is extremely rewarding. You’ll get great job satisfaction from seeing the difference you make each and every day.
What does a Occupational Therapist do?
Our Occupational Therapists provide a high quality service to support people to maximise their independence and build their everyday living skills.
No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
carrying out assessments
working with people, their loved ones and professionals to develop and deliver person-centred care plans for occupational therapy
focusing interventions on self-care, leisure and productivity to promote independence and meaningful occupation
monitoring, evaluating and recording people’s progress, and updating and adapting their care plan as required
using equipment, such as appliances and aids, safely as part of therapy interventions, and ensuring that colleagues, individuals and families are adequately trained.
What skills and qualifications do I need to work as a Occupational Therapist?
To work as an Occupational Therapist with Exemplar Health Care, you must have a BSc or MSc in occupational therapy and be HCPC registered.
Our Occupational Therapists also live and breathe our values of fun, integrity, responsive, success and teamwork.
Our first value is fun, and no matter what role you’re in, we expect you to make life fun for the people we support and your colleagues.
As an Occupational Therapist, you're also someone who has:
a positive, can-do attitude
creative thinking and sound organisational skills
lots of enthusiasm to encourage and motivate others
a thorough understanding of occupational therapy best practice
great listening and communication skills.
What training and career development can I do as an Occupational Therapist?
There are lots of opportunities to learn and develop in your career as an Occupational Therapist.
When you start with us, you’ll do a company induction which covers basic training such as health and safety and first aid.
After that, you’ll do a role specific induction in your home with the support of a buddy.
You can also benefit from:
clinical skills training
formal qualifications and training
in-house leadership and management development programmes.
The benefits of being an Occupational Therapist
Working as an Occupational Therapist with Exemplar Health Care has many benefits.
As well as being extremely rewarding, our roles offer stable and secure employment with lots of opportunities to develop.
Career development
Our sector-leading learning and development opportunities give you the skills and support to excel in your role and take your career to the next level.
Colleague wellbeing
We provide a safe and supportive environment, and health and wellbeing support, to ensure you're happy and healthy at work.
Rewards and benefits
There are plenty of rewards and benefits of working with Exemplar Health Care, from lifestyle and retail discounts, to free counselling sessions, access to wages early and NMC PIN payments from Nurses.
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