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Hackney, United Kingdom

Senior Occupational Therapist – Reablement at Home

Occupational TherapistIncludes callFull-Time

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Posted 5mo ago

Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Senior Occupational Therapist to join its client’s Reablement Team, based within the London Borough of Hackney.

This Senior OT role supports Hackney’s continued shift towards a reablement‑first approach, promoting independence, reducing long‑term care dependency, and improving outcomes for local residents.

The Reablement at Home service is a short‑term, therapy‑led intervention (typically lasting up to six weeks), supporting individuals to regain skills and confidence following hospital discharge.

What Will Your Responsibilities Be?

  • In this role, you will:
  • Deliver therapy‑led reablement interventions
  • Lead on person‑centred, goal‑focused reablement plans
  • Support hospital discharge pathways
  • Promote a “doing with” rather than “doing for” approach
  • Enable independence, autonomy and wellbeing
  • Work collaboratively with health, social care and community partners

Qualifications & Experience

  • To be successful in this role, you must have:
  • HCPC‑registered Occupational Therapist
  • Strong experience in reablement or discharge pathways
  • Ability to work autonomously and lead best practice

Why Liquid Personnel?

  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
  • Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
  • Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
  • Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK

“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*

“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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Key Responsibilities

The Senior Occupational Therapist will deliver therapy-led reablement interventions and lead person-centred, goal-focused plans to support hospital discharge. They will work collaboratively with health and social care partners to promote independence and reduce long-term care dependency.

Requirements

Candidates must be an HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist with strong experience in reablement or discharge pathways. The role requires the ability to work autonomously and lead best practice in a community setting.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Occupational therapyPerson-centred careGoal-focused planningIndependence promotionCollaborative workingHCPC registration

Occupational Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Occupational Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 56% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Top Occupational Therapist Jobs

34 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution28 jobs · 27 employers

9
<$110k
8
$110k-130k
3
$130k-150k
7
$150k-170k
1
$172k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks27 jobs

401k / retirement match
89%
CME allowance
67%
Sign-on bonus
26%
Loan repayment
22%
Relocation assistance
7%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Lets Therapy · Media, Pennsylvania

$82.50 per hour
#2

Head Occupational Therapist (Inpatient Rehabilitation & Acute Care) | NYP-CUIMC | Full-Time | Mon - Fri | Day Shift

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital · New York, New York

$70.76-$81.01/hr
#3

Occupational Therapist

$129k–$160k
#4

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$56.5-$76.75/hr
+ 32 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Occupational Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,050 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Liquid Personnel

Staffing and Recruiting
Manchester, Lancashire
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Free DBS and compliance service
Twice weekly payroll and 'Faster Pay' service
Access to exclusive roles
Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
Dedicated consultant
Refer a Friend bonus – £500
Find your own job bonus – £250