Senior Occupational TherapistNHS
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Senior Occupational Therapist - Peterborough City Council Careers
Are you passionate about delivering person-centred care and collaborating as part of a team to support children and young people to thrive in their home environments?
Are youcommitted to continuous learning and making a positive difference?
Then this senior Children's Occupational Therapy position within social care could be the perfect opportunity for you!
This role offers the opportunity for you to manage your own diary, with no weekends or banks holidays. Working hours could be 8-4, 9-5 or 9.30-5.30
This is a part time post of 22.5 hours, the salary quoted is based on 37 hours and will be pro rata accordingly.
This role is a rolling advert and may close prior to the advert closing date should we find a suitable applicant.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Occupational Therapist in the Children's Occupational Therapy team, you'll play a vital role in supporting children and young people with complex health, social, and housing needs in the community. You'll use your specialist clinical expertise to carry out assessments, recommend tailored interventions, and provide both simple and complex equipment and adaptation solutions to maximise independence and safety.
You'll manage a varied caseload of complex cases as an autonomous practitioner, drawing on advanced problem solving and reasoning skills. Working closely with families, carers, and multi-disciplinary colleagues across health, housing, and social care, you'll deliver a seamless, child centred service that supports meaningful outcomes.
In this role, you'll also contribute to service development, provide guidance and supervision to junior staff, and act as a specialist resource within the team. Your expertise will help shape high quality practice across therapy services while ensuring safe, effective, and innovative ways of working.
Job description
The post holder will provide assessment and provision of Occupational Therapy interventions to children and young people with highly complex difficulties in the community; resulting in the need for specialist functional assessment and intervention, specialist housing adaptation, simple and complex equipment needs taking into account the needs of the child and their parents/responsible adults and carers. The post holder will be expected to provide a positive contribution to the health of children and young people and make an active contribution to the delivery and development of the service. The post holder will work under the guidance of lead practitioners within the team to gain best practice and consolidation of knowledge.
To perform a specialist Occupational Therapy role for children and young people up to the age of 18 years old, who have complex health, social and housing needs
To assess and provide support for the functional needs of children and young people, including those with multiple pathologies including physical, neurological and mental health conditions, chronic and terminal/palliative illnesses in the community.
To provide a specialist response in complex and highly complex cases, assessing, formulating and implementing intervention plans aimed at reducing the impact of disability and ill health.
To manage a defined caseload of complex and highly complex cases as an autonomous practitioner, evidencing high level problem solving and reasoning skills, and independence of judgement. Main Duties and Responsibilities:
To have an in-depth specialist knowledge on working with children and young people with complex health needs, a detailed knowledge of current guidance, specialist assessments and interventions available for a wide variety of independent needs.
To have a working knowledge and awareness of service provision, inclusive of policy and procedures relevant to occupational therapy, social care and health organisations
To have a good level of knowledge of relevant legislation and housing legislation with a detailed knowledge of eligibility criteria and relevant procedures and policies relating to social care, health and housing organisations.
A good understanding of the principles of housing construction and design, technical plans and housing adaptations with a high-level understanding of the complex interaction between health, housing and social issues and their impact on functional ability with the aim of increasing independence or support parents/responsible adults/carers.
To have a working knowledge of communication strategies in order to establish a therapeutic relationship and adapt where necessary to ensure comprehension. To identify, 09/01/2026 adapt and use communication, reasoning, and negotiation skills to support informed decision making in complex and highly complex cases, managing all barriers to communication.
To work jointly with OT colleagues and the MDT (health and social care professionals) to provide a seamless service and close working relationships.
A comprehensive knowledge of complex multiple pathologies including, physical, neurological and mental health conditions, learning disabilities, chronic, palliative/terminal illnesses and their impact on functional ability to carry out and record comprehensive assessments of people with complex, highly complex and specialist needs within the home, educational and social environments.
To perform occupational analysis and risk evaluation leading to the formulation of intervention options which reduce the consequences of disability and deteriorating conditions.
To independently maintain current and up to date national and local guidance within the specialism of childrens Occupational Therapy. To ensure that changes are implemented and updated into the service as required. To identify and select, with the person and/or their parents/responsible adults/carers, the most appropriate intervention options which balance the complex interaction of risk, safety, choice, independence, areas of conflict, eligibility for services and cost effectiveness.
To provide help and advice to children and young people, their family/parents/responsible adults and other carers - teaching and demonstrating relevant support strategies, use of equipment or other techniques to optimise the persons functional ability and independence. To arrange for the provision of standard specialist disability equipment and obtain authorisation from the Therapy Services Manager for non-standard equipment using professional judgement to ensure cost effectiveness, need and suitability.
To independently manage a caseload of complex and highly complex cases (in consultation with the Therapy Services Manager as necessary) and to take into account the views and wishes of children and young people, their carers and families/responsible adults, respecting their diversity.
To seek opinion from other relevant professionals to inform analysis and reasoning where appropriate.
To make recommendations for Disabled Facilities Grants and housing adaptations and act as a resource as required.
To identify and respond to urgent needs, supporting OT colleagues where necessary.
To work alongside OT colleagues as a co-worker or on a consultation basis for supporting people children and young people with complex needs.
To liaise with health and social care professionals and other related statutory, private and voluntary organisations, providing written reports, recommendations and referrals when appropriate.
To progress the intervention to a satisfactory closure, evaluating outcomes and completing reviews as appropriate.
About us
Our therapy team is a dedicated and supportive group of professionals committed to providing exceptional service and support to our community.We offer a collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. Our team values continuous learning and provides access to ongoing training and education. We are embracing new ways of working and innovation to ensure that we deliver the highest quality of support tothe people of Peterborough. We are a small team doingbig thingsand making a big impact.You would be joining a well-established team where respect, team working and a supportive environment are key to a successful future.Weoperatea flexible way of working over the week, you will manage your own diaryand there is no weekend working. We are mostly agile and work from home, whilst using the office as an official work base.Our wider Occupational Therapy service supports adults across areas such as moving and handling, adaptations, Technology Enabled Care, Learning Disability, and OT Duty triage. This post sits within our dedicated Children's Occupational Therapy team, delivering assessment and intervention within the home environment.