Rotational Paedatric Occupational Therapist

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London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust welcomes applications from people who wish to work part time or flexibly.

Would you like to be part of an Occupational Therapy Team that focuses on its patients and delivers high quality and compliant service? Could you bring your experience to the NHS and make a real difference?

If you answered ‘yes’ to the above, we would love to hear from you!

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join our Team within Brent. The post is within our Integrated Community Services and is based at Chalkhill Family Practice. This is a great opportunity to improve your skills and experience within the field of Paediatric Occupational Therapy through providing high quality, client-led, goal focused treatment to patients in a friendly and supportive team.

You will be responsible for managing a caseload of varying diagnoses and complexity with support from specialist Paediatric B7 and 8 Occupational therapists, whilst working as part of a team to ensure excellent standards of care to our clients within the schools, and clinic’s.

The Occupational Therapy structure consists of Band 5 through to 8a, and you will work alongside Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Paediatrician, educational teaching staff. The successful applicants will have an opportunity to gain experience in managing a diverse community caseload, supervising junior staff and students, and opportunities to develop and progress their career through regular internal and external training. A framework of regular supervision including 1:1, peer supervision, appraisal and in-service training is in place. There is strong multidisciplinary working and teaching is provided on a regular basis

To Apply for this post, you need to have :

• Professional Qualification e.g., Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist Training.
• Able to demonstrate required clinical knowledge of up-to-date Occupational therapy interventions and service issues relevant to Children and Young People’s service provision.
• An understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people.
• Recognised CPD in area of clinical specialism.
• Experience of supervision and training of other band 5 therapists/students and other professionals.
• Minimum 2-2.5 years post qualification experience.
• Minimum of 1.5 years’ experience in working with children
• Experience of working with families from a wide variety of backgrounds including age and ethnicity.
• Experience with developing and delivering training programmes to support service delivery.
• Experience of undertaking assessment of and supporting children with complex presentations.
• Able to demonstrate ability to work flexibly and support CYP and families based on partnership working as part of an integrated model of service provision.
• Experience of supporting CYP in both community and educational settings.
• Experienced and able to demonstrate a commitment to integrated working and close partnership working with internal and external partners.
• Evidence of a value system which puts the child at the heart of actions
• Evidence of an understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people
• Able to demonstrate a clinical knowledge and familiarisation with a range of standardised and non-standardised assessment tools relevant to Occupational therapy
• Able to use IT to support and innovate clinical development.
• Good interpersonal skills.
  

Skills/Responsibilities

• To function as a specialist autonomous clinician and provide specialist clinical care including assessment, diagnosis, care planning and treatment for a mixed community caseload.
• To provide high quality assessment and interventions for children and young people with developmental / complex needs in area of specialist expertise, using evidence based/person-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To provide specialist therapy input into clinical services within a designated area/team, contributing to defined projects as requested.
• To ensure the use of our impact-based approach to clinical decision making within our service.
• To support and develop junior staff through direct line management responsibility, mentoring support, provision of training etc. in line with your current skills and abilities.
• To understand and support the SEND agenda – working in close partnership with key stakeholders.
• The post holder will have a responsibility to contribute to CPD, clinical audit, research, and in-service training within the specialist area, and may be asked to initiate and lead on some areas of service development.
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catherine Anderson Job title: Principal Paediatric Occupational Therapist Harrow & Brent Email address: catherine.anderson6@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 8736 7106

Elizabeth Poultney e.poultney@nhs.net

Principal Paediatric Occupational Therapist Harrow & Brent