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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Therapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 21 hours per week
Job ref
412-COMM-8141603
Employer
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Infinity House
Town
Crewe
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/08/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Want to work somewhere you can really make a difference? Somewhere you’re encouraged to have ideas and empowered to create positive change?

Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) deliver NHS Community Services across Cheshire. With a wide range of clinical disciplines, we are a dynamic, future-facing organisation passionate about delivering the highest quality healthcare whilst collaborating with our community partners.

We foster a culture of continuous improvement, built on compassion.

 Find out more about CCICP: Community Services (CCICP): Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Here more from our people on the ‘Community Conversations’ podcast: Community Conversations Podcast | Podcast on Spotify

 Don’t just take our word for it…

Our Annual Staff Survey results say

·       Over 83% of staff would recommend CCICP as a place to work

·       90% of staff say the people they work with show appreciation to each other

·       88% staff say that patient care/service users are the organisations top priority

·       Over 70% of staff believe there are opportunities for them to develop their career

·       If a friend or relative needed treatment 81% of staff are happy with the standard of care provided

 

We are recognised nationally

·       With over 24 Queen’s Nurses (and growing) we have one of the highest percentages proportionate to the size of our team

·       Nursing Times Award winners in 2023 and finalists in 2024 for a Bladder and Bowl project. Our specialist Stoma service is currently shortlisted for a Nursing Times and British Journal of Nursing awards. 

·       Two Specialist clinicians have recently had their work recognised by Wounds UK

·       Leighton Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, run by CCICP, was reviewed by Care Quality Commission and awarded the highest score in the North West

Job overview

Are you a Paediatric OT with a specific interest in helping children and young people with Sensory Processing difficulties? 

My name is Mat, and I'm the Service Manager for the Paediatric Therapies Service in Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP). I would love to tell you about a fantastic opportunity that has become available for a specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist to come and join us in Sensory OT Service within the Cheshire East locality. 

Within this element of the service, we will look to continue to offer a tiered - Universal, Targeted and Specialist, approach. This will likely include the delivery of Universal Training and development of resources, completion of targeted workshops based around sensory topics, and specialist clinic / school / home sessions for those children and young people who require this level of intervention.

The successful candidate will work closely with our Paediatric Therapy teams in CCICP, as well as other members of the MDT.  You will have extensive support from an experienced team leader, and excellent peer support from our current OTs who have developed our current Sensory offer in Cheshire East & West. Training opportunities and CPD are very much encouraged also, and you will very much be front and centre at helping to roll out Expert at Hands guidance!

If you have any questions at all, or would like to have a chat about the role, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Main duties of the job

- Supporting roll out of Expert at Hand guidance

-Delivery of Universal & Targeted Training sessions to upskill the wider workforce across Cheshire, helping to implement the tiered approach.

- Joint working with other members of the Sensory Processing OT Support Service across Cheshire

- Management of a caseload of complex children and young people who require assessment and intervention at Specialist level

- Completion of assessment and interventions to assist in the Tribunal process

- Work alongside 'core' Paediatric OT services within Central and Western Cheshire to help with service development

- Contribution to statutory assessments for children and young people with SEND

- To contribute to the delivery of the service in a variety of defined clinical settings, which may involve  schools and the patient’s home.

- To implement highly specialist individual and/or group interventions for patients with diverse presentations and highly complex needs.

- To monitor progress and review treatment plans and interventions to facilitate the achievement of goals.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). Our services include planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care, child health, maternity, and intermediate care across Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area’s largest employers.

Since the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust has become a key partner in Cheshire East & Cheshire West and Chester and in two provider collaboratives, aligning our strategic goals with the Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care System.

As part of the national New Hospital Programme, we’re reimagining Leighton Hospital to create a new health and care neighbourhood, transforming healthcare delivery for a Healthier Future. Learn more on our Healthier Futures website.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed job description and main responsibilities are identified in the attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Wide experience of working with children and young people
  • Experience of working in SEND
  • Experience of community based working - ideally link with schools

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • HCPC registered
  • Post graduate qualifications relevant to role - Sensory training
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership qualification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Sensory OT skillset
  • Evidence of excellent communication skills
  • Experience of delivering training to others
  • Involvement in SEND / EHCP writing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgePrince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do itNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mat Southall
Job title
Community Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07824387441

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
Telephone
[email protected]
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