Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
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a competitive salary
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a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
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lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
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generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
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hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our North Northamptonshire Therapy Team. The role will be working across our Community Therapy Team, with this post based within the Specialist Moving and Handling Team.
As a Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist within a Specialist Moving and Handling Team you will deliver holistic, person-centred assessments, completing comprehensive interventions focused on safe moving and handling and providing tailored care recommendations and equipment solutions.
Based in the north of the county, you will work primarily with people with physical disabilities. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to gain valuable community experience, with strong support and development opportunities from the wider team.
What will you be doing?
- We take a holistic approach and complete occupational therapy assessments, with a focus on promoting independence and choice to support people to live well for longer whilst reducing, where possible, the need for hospitalization or long-term residential care.
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We take a collaborative approach to care, working with the person and their care provider to ensure they receive the right amount of care and therapy in the correct environment, at the right time.
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We involve and encourage the person to engage in activities to achieve their goals and facilitate safe and appropriate interventions to maximise independence.
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We undertake a person-centred assessment of moving and handling needs and support carers with expert advice and guidance on manual handing cases to improve the quality of care within North Northamptonshire.
About you
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our North Northamptonshire Therapy Team. The role will be working across our Community Therapy Team, with this post based within the Specialist Moving and Handling Team.
As a Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist within a Specialist Moving and Handling Team you will deliver holistic, person-centred assessments, completing comprehensive interventions focused on safe moving and handling and providing tailored care recommendations and equipment solutions.
Based in the north of the county, you will work primarily with people with physical disabilities. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to gain valuable community experience, with strong support and development opportunities from the wider team.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
