Occupational Therapist – Manual Handling

Liquid Personnel· Suffolk· greenhouse· julkaistu 24.09.2025

Are you a skilled Occupational Therapist with strong manual handling expertise? If so, join our client's motivated team in Lowestoft, delivering safe and effective care across Adult Social Care.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide safe and timely front-line OT services across the directorate

Support triage and reduce duplication between health and social care to cut OT waiting lists

Advise and support external care providers on correct moving and handling practices

Review care packages to ensure best value and optimal use of equipment

Review double-handed care packages and promote single-handed care where appropriate

Offer mutual aid to other OT areas as needed

Complete OT assessments and reviews efficiently and safely

Requirements:

Location: Must be local to Lowestoft or able to commute daily

Experience: Local authority experience preferred, but NHS backgrounds welcome

Grade: Band 6 or equivalent

Has strong manual handling and clinical reasoning skills

Is confident working independently and collaboratively

Wants to make a real difference in service delivery and outcomes

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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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