Occupational Therapy Intake Hub Worker

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19 August 2019
Permanent
Occupational Therapy Intake Team, Adult Access Service, The Piazza, Little Oak Drive, Annersley, Nottinghamshire. NG15 0DR
Adult Social Care and Health
£19,945 - £22,462 per annum

Are you the person to join the OT Intake Team as our Hub worker? The Intake team are responsible for completing Occupational Therapy assessments over the telephone or in OT clinics.

The Hub worker is integral to our success. 

You will respond to requests for support in a 3 tier way.  Maintaining independence and safety for people struggling to manage at home by providing information, referring on, and booking in assessments. You will also support the Intake Team CCOs, by completing tasks that are more administrative in nature, enabling them to concentrate on assessing, thereby completing more work in a proportionate and timely manner.

You must be highly organised, good IT skills, a natural problem solver, have a great telephone manner, and be an excellent communicator and team player.

You would be part of the Adult Access Service which is at the forefront of Adult Social Care Health and our role is significant in resolving inquiries for the people of Nottinghamshire in relation to Social Care, OT, Benefits and Carers. You will be working with Advanced Social Work Practitioners, Occupational Therapist Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, Community Care Officers and Services Advisors. We work closely with a variety of colleagues: the MASH team in the same building, Customer Service Centre staff based at Mercury House, ASCH colleagues in district, hospitals and specialist teams, health staff and the voluntary sector.

We will offer you regular supervision, support, coaching and the opportunity for training and personal development. If you have the motivation and enthusiasm to be part of our fantastic team, we would like to hear from you.

Please contact the Adult Access Service on 0115 8042580 to discuss the post and ask for Moira Fitzsimmons-Holling or Denise Dopson.

Appointment to this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.

Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.

Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation.

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