We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as an Occupational Therapy Assistant in Contact Cares, Reablement and Occupational Therapy
St Helens Cares is the new approach to delivering Health and Social Care in St Helens; bringing together a wide range of public and community service organisations to work in partnership, with a united goal of improving people’s lives and improving the place as a whole. St Helens Council is proud to be part of this partnership.
Key to this vision is Contact Cares; which aims to simplify the way we access health and social care services from nursing assessment to social care; reablement to audiology, safeguarding to occupational therapy.
Our Occupational Therapy Team are committed to supporting and assisting people with disabilities to improve their quality of life and be as independent as possible in their home environment.
We are seeking a well-motivated and enthusiastic person with excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure to join our established and supportive community-based team at St Helens Council. You will visit people in their own homes to assess their daily living needs, provide vital equipment and make recommendations to adapt their home environment to support them to live safely and independently.
You should have experience in working in a health, social care, or housing environment and a good understanding of specialist equipment and home adaptations. Experience in supporting people with disabilities is highly desirable. Good IT skills would be an advantage.
This post is 5 days a week Monday to Friday.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Gill Jewison (Occupational Therapy Team Manager) on 07795450191.
