Decision Maker: Assistant Director of Strategy & Performance
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Occupational Therapy Team comprises
Occupational Therapists x 2 manual handling advisors/trainers,
business support and assessment officers.
To create 2 additional permanent Assessment
Officer posts (Grade 7) in the Minor Adaptations without Delay
(MAWD) Team. The previous Principal OT suggested these posts be
created be in place of 1 or 2 of the vacant OT posts in the
service, however the preference is now for these posts to be
additions to the current establishment, due to the long waiting
list for OT assessments.
Option 1 - Create the 2 additional Assessment
Officers posts - preferred option.
Option 2 - Do nothing - this would risk the waiting list getting
longer and clients waiting a longer time to be assessed. There
would also be increased risk of carers' stress and an adverse
effect on clients' wellbeing and quality of life.
Publication date: 12/07/2018
Date of decision: 18/09/2017
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