Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Jobs

Job Title:  Highly Specialist Early Years Lead Children’s Occupational Therapist – Band 7
Area:  South London NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Specialist Occupational Therapist required to start asap for 6 months.

• Experience of working with under 5’s.
• Experience of doing home and nursery visits and working in clinics.
• Enhanced children – DBS required.
• Car owner required.

JD available on request:
1. To manage a complex caseload of early year children providing specialised assessments,
intervention and provision of equipment.
2. To provide a specialised standard of occupational therapy assessment and intervention for a
caseload of children with a wide range of developmental difficulties, many of whom may have
complex or multiple pathologies, in line with department’s priorities and policies.
3. To work across Health, Education and Social Services settings combining the traditional roles of
both Health and Social Services Occupational Therapists as part of an integrated occupational
therapy service for children, young people and their families in line with the Section 31
Partnership Agreement between Health Services and Council.
4. To provide supervision and contribute to the development of junior occupational therapists,
occupational therapy assistants / technical instructors and students, through the use of
supervision, appraisal and development.
5. To be a source of clinical expertise in Early Years (0-5 years old) and advice on occupational
therapy client care for occupational therapy colleagues, other health professionals and
colleagues working in external agencies.
6. To work frequently as a lone practitioner across a variety of locations within the community,
including client’s homes and schools, ensuring that intervention is responsive and sensitive to the
social, cultural, linguistic and religious needs of a diverse population.
7. To work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the Health & Care
Professions Council, College of Occupational Therapy, Health Services and the department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
8. To contribute to the overall maintenance and development of the Early years Occupational Therapy service.
Working hours: Full/Part time.
Code: U. 018009.B13023
 

Tripod Partners are currently recruiting for an RMN to work in the Single Point of Access Service in Nottinghamshire.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Triage and assess referrals from a variety of sources, including GPs, social services, and self-referrals, to determine the most appropriate level of mental health intervention.
• Conduct telephone and face-to-face mental health assessments, identifying urgent and routine mental health needs, risk factors, and crisis situations.
• Provide expert clinical advice and signposting to appropriate mental health services, ensuring individuals are referred to the correct pathways, including community mental health teams, crisis services, or secondary care.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload of patients, ensuring timely responses and interventions based on clinical need and service demand.
• Work collaboratively with other services including primary care, secondary care, voluntary organisations, and social care to ensure seamless transitions and holistic care coordination for patients.
• Deliver brief, evidence-based interventions via telephone or face-to-face where appropriate, providing immediate support and guidance for individuals in mental health crises.
• Provide supervision and guidance to junior staff and support workers, ensuring high standards of care and promoting professional development.
• Maintain accurate and detailed documentation, ensuring all contacts, assessments, and care plans are recorded in line with organisational and professional standards.
• Contribute to service development and improvement initiatives, ensuring the SPA service remains responsive, efficient, and aligned with best practices in mental health care.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are promptly identified, assessed, and reported in line with safeguarding protocols and legal frameworks.

Position Details:
Work Pattern: 7 days a week, Morning, Afternoon & Nights
Duration: Initially 3 months likely to be extended further 
Umbrella Rate: Weekday £25.66 Saturday/Nights £31.57 Sundays/BH £38.55
Pay Type: Umbrella or PAYE available

Requirements:

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Area:  South East London NHS
Salary:  £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details:  Occupational Therapist required for 12 weeks. Urgent Community Response Therapy Team. Skills/experience: community therapy experience. Ideally car driver but not essential, pool car available. Working hours: 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00 (some flexibility)
Code:  U.632. 018009.B13021
 

Tripod Partners are currently recruiting for an Inpatient RMN to work a variety of block bookings in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Key Responsibilities
 

• Provide high-quality nursing care to individuals with acute or enduring mental health conditions within an inpatient setting, ensuring their physical, emotional, and psychological needs are met.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments of patients’ mental health, physical health, and social needs, and contribute to the formulation of personalised care plans.
• Administer medication safely and effectively in line with legal frameworks, including controlled drugs, and monitor patients for any side effects or changes in mental or physical health.
• Undertake regular risk assessments for all patients, identifying and managing potential risks, including self-harm, aggression, or deterioration in mental state.
• Collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists, to ensure that care is holistic and meets patients’ needs.
• Support patients in developing coping mechanisms and strategies for managing their mental health conditions, fostering recovery and preparation for discharge.
• Manage the admission and discharge process, ensuring all necessary documentation, assessments, and care plans are completed accurately and timely.
• Monitor and document patient progress through detailed and accurate record-keeping, ensuring that care plans are regularly reviewed and updated in collaboration with the wider team.
• Work within the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983, ensuring that patients’ rights are protected, and appropriate care is provided to those under section.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults, ensuring that any concerns are raised in accordance with legal and organisational procedures.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment on the ward, ensuring that standards of cleanliness, safety, and infection control are upheld.
• Offer emotional support to families and carers, involving them where appropriate in the care planning and treatment process.
• Respond quickly and appropriately to emergencies or deteriorating patients, escalating concerns to senior staff when necessary.
• Contribute to shift handovers and ensure clear communication between team members to promote continuity of care.

Position Details:
Work Pattern: 12 hours shifts, 7 days a week, Days & Nights
Duration: Initially 3 months likely to be extended further 
Umbrella Rate: Weekday £21.11 Saturday/Nights £27.85 Sundays/BH £30.58
Pay Type: Umbrella or PAYE available

Requirements:

Job Title:  Therapy Support Worker – Band 4
Area: East London NHS
Salary:  £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details: Virtual Frailty Ward. To start asap. Experience with and under the direction of Occupational Therapists/Physiotherpaists, experience working alone in the community, particularly with the elderly population in particular frailty (falls and activities of daily living rehabilitation. Working hours: Full time. 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code:  U. Role 173. 018009.B13019
 

Tripod Partners are currently recruiting for an Inpatient RMN to work a variety of block bookings in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Key Responsibilities
 

• Provide high-quality nursing care to individuals with acute or enduring mental health conditions within an inpatient setting, ensuring their physical, emotional, and psychological needs are met.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments of patients’ mental health, physical health, and social needs, and contribute to the formulation of personalised care plans.
• Administer medication safely and effectively in line with legal frameworks, including controlled drugs, and monitor patients for any side effects or changes in mental or physical health.
• Undertake regular risk assessments for all patients, identifying and managing potential risks, including self-harm, aggression, or deterioration in mental state.
• Collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists, to ensure that care is holistic and meets patients’ needs.
• Support patients in developing coping mechanisms and strategies for managing their mental health conditions, fostering recovery and preparation for discharge.
• Manage the admission and discharge process, ensuring all necessary documentation, assessments, and care plans are completed accurately and timely.
• Monitor and document patient progress through detailed and accurate record-keeping, ensuring that care plans are regularly reviewed and updated in collaboration with the wider team.
• Work within the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983, ensuring that patients’ rights are protected, and appropriate care is provided to those under section.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults, ensuring that any concerns are raised in accordance with legal and organisational procedures.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment on the ward, ensuring that standards of cleanliness, safety, and infection control are upheld.
• Offer emotional support to families and carers, involving them where appropriate in the care planning and treatment process.
• Respond quickly and appropriately to emergencies or deteriorating patients, escalating concerns to senior staff when necessary.
• Contribute to shift handovers and ensure clear communication between team members to promote continuity of care.

Position Details:
Work Pattern: 12 hours shifts, 7 days a week, Days & Nights
Duration: Initially 3 months likely to be extended further 
Umbrella Rate: Weekday £21.11 Saturday/Nights £27.85 Sundays/BH £30.58
Pay Type: Umbrella or PAYE available

Requirements:

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist – Band 6/7
Area: East London NHS
Salary:  £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details: Virtual Frailty Ward. Experience working in community aged care, frailty, falls, equipment prescription and rehabilitation. Working hours: Full time. 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code:  U. Role 174. 018009.B13017
 

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Location:  London Borough of Haringey
Area:  North West London Social Services
Salary: £39.96
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing
Job details:  JD available on request: To provide a high-quality Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention service to individuals with complex care and therapy needs. Working collaboratively with residents to encourage independence and integration to achieve improved outcomes across the borough.
1. To provide an initial assessment of service users with complex care and therapy needs across the teams within the Access and Independence Service: First Response, Reablement and the Assessment Service.
2. Support service users to set client centred goals to promote independence and wellbeing in the home environment. Facilitate service user choice and empowerment through promoting independence, the timely provision of information, advice and support using evidence-based interventions to ensure service users maintain independence for as long as possible.
3. Assessment and provision of equipment to improve independence with activities of daily living and to reduce risk of injury. This includes manual handling assessments to reduce risk of injury to service users and carers and, where feasible, reduce packages of care for single handed care.
4. To independently manage a caseload, utilising effective prioritisation, delegation and time management skills to enable effective throughput of service users.
5. To identify service users appropriate for Continuing Health Care to manage complex health needs
6. To identify Safeguarding concerns, complete thorough risk assessment and refer where appropriate to services to manage risk of harm to service users. This includes situations where people may be neglected or abused in accordance with the Inter-Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults
7. To assess capacity and ability to make informed decisions relating to assessment process as per Care and Mental Capacity Act.
8. To ensure cost effective service provision and make recommendations for specialist equipment and adaptations in accordance with eligibility criteria and departmental guidelines.
9. To complete carers assessments to support informal carers in their role and manage risk of carer breakdown
10. To keep accurate and up to date case records and written reports using council’s IT systems and in line with statutory and local protocols. Ensure the highest level of data quality for all information recorded, ensuring that the information is consistently timely, accurate and complete to ensure the service meets the Professions and statutory recording requirements, including case recording on Mosaic.
11. To ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to service users and information obtained during employment, and not to release such information to anyone else other than those acting in an authorised official capacity in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldicott Guidance.
12. To develop and maintain effective working relationships across services within Adult Social Care, as well as other specialist agencies including Acute Hospital NHS trusts, Mental Health service, D/Ns, GPs, voluntary organisations and independent care service providers.
13. To promote the service to other organisations and appropriate personnel and provide guidance and information concerning Occupational Therapy service provision to other agencies, e.g. Housing Associations, Carer Agencies.
14. To provide regular supervision and participate in the professional development of OT Assistants and other junior members of the team. This includes assisting in the training of Occupational Therapy student and in staff induction programs.
15. To recommend changes in the Occupational Therapy role and service where appropriate. To act as a skills resource for other professionals across Adult social care and partner services when required
Code:  U. RQ1361418. 018009.B13016
 

Job Title:  Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Location:  London Borough of Lambeth
Area:  South London Social Services
Salary:  £32.47
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing         
Job details:  Children’s OT role. Working hours: Part time. 21 hours per week.
Code:  U. RQ1364398. 018009.B13015
 

Tripod Partners are currently recruiting for an Inpatient RMN to work a variety of block bookings in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Key Responsibilities
 

• Provide high-quality nursing care to individuals with acute or enduring mental health conditions within an inpatient setting, ensuring their physical, emotional, and psychological needs are met.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments of patients’ mental health, physical health, and social needs, and contribute to the formulation of personalised care plans.
• Administer medication safely and effectively in line with legal frameworks, including controlled drugs, and monitor patients for any side effects or changes in mental or physical health.
• Undertake regular risk assessments for all patients, identifying and managing potential risks, including self-harm, aggression, or deterioration in mental state.
• Collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists, to ensure that care is holistic and meets patients’ needs.
• Support patients in developing coping mechanisms and strategies for managing their mental health conditions, fostering recovery and preparation for discharge.
• Manage the admission and discharge process, ensuring all necessary documentation, assessments, and care plans are completed accurately and timely.
• Monitor and document patient progress through detailed and accurate record-keeping, ensuring that care plans are regularly reviewed and updated in collaboration with the wider team.
• Work within the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983, ensuring that patients’ rights are protected, and appropriate care is provided to those under section.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults, ensuring that any concerns are raised in accordance with legal and organisational procedures.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment on the ward, ensuring that standards of cleanliness, safety, and infection control are upheld.
• Offer emotional support to families and carers, involving them where appropriate in the care planning and treatment process.
• Respond quickly and appropriately to emergencies or deteriorating patients, escalating concerns to senior staff when necessary.
• Contribute to shift handovers and ensure clear communication between team members to promote continuity of care.

Position Details:
Work Pattern: 12 hours shifts, 7 days a week, Days & Nights
Duration: Initially 3 months likely to be extended further 
Umbrella Rate: Weekday £21.11 Saturday/Nights £27.85 Sundays/BH £30.58
Pay Type: Umbrella or PAYE available

Requirements: