Specialist Children's Occupational TherapistNHS

Job summary

Children's Occupational Therapist (OT)

We are excited to offer the opportunity for experienced OTs registered with HCPC to join our dynamic children's therapies services in Stockport.

We are an innovative service and have been undergoing transformation using The Balanced System (R) approach over the last few years. This puts us in an excellent position to deliver the Experts at Hand model in the SEND reforms.

Are you the OT we are looking for to join our team? We hope so and would love to hear from you.

This role is to:

• provide an occupational therapy service, to children in Stockport using The Balanced System (R) framework. The successful candidate will be expected to meet the functional needs of children across their home learning environment, their community and in educational settings at universal, targeted and specialist level and across the 5 strands of the balanced system framework.
• work as a member of a team, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children with varied and complex functional difficulties.
• liaise with health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary carers and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service.
• work in a variety of settings / be placed based i.e. seeing children either in their own homes, community settings or nurseries, mainstream schools, resource units and special schools and clinics with a range of complex special needs

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To work as part of the children's therapy services team providing support to ensure a continuum of offer is available in the local area using the balanced system matrix

To create / develop 'mini balanced system' offer in own area of work

To perform advanced therapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex difficulties, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

To be responsible for your own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and case conferences. Access to advice and support from a highly specialist occupational therapist is available, if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

Supervise, educate and assess the performance of Students (this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification).

Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team's clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical team leader for changes to practice. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service guidelines.

Job description

Please refer to attached job description and person specification for more information related to the duties and responsibilities of this post.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salaryIn addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice