Advanced Occupational TherapistNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a children's Occupational Therapist, with an understanding of social care responsibilities, to be part of the development of an integrated health and social care service, supporting the children and families in Newcastle.

This newly created team will consist of three qualified members of staff and one support staff member and will be co-located with the children's community team based at Regent Point. Staffing will include 0.5 wte Band 8a Occupational Therapist: 1.0wte Band 7 Occupational Therapist, 1.0 wte Band 6 Occupational Therapist (rotational) 1.0 wte Band 3 administrator.

The role will be integrated within the Children's Community Occupational Therapy Service, working closely with the wider therapy teams, to create a seamless and transparent experience for anyone referred to the service for equipment and/or adaptations reducing duplication and providing a more holistic approach to Occupational Therapy support.

Newcastle children's Occupational Therapy is a well-established service supporting children and their families/carers across a range of settings including the Great North Children's Hospital, specialist provision schools and mainstream school settings and their home environment.

The service will be hosted by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and have reporting responsibilities to Newcastle city council and social care services.

Main duties of the job

The aim of this newly created team is to improve and enhance the services for children and families needing social care support, equipment, home adaptations across Newcastle. The service will be responsible for delivering high-quality patient focused support within the legislative frameworks of the Care act, Children and families act 2014, Children's act 1989 and the Chronically Sick and Disabled Person's act 1970.

• Interview Date 25 November 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

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Job description

To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to non-complex, complex and highly complex patients within specialty evidencing high-level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.

The as Advanced OT will be a highly specialist practitioner and is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within specialty providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care across the region.

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust