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Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 10 months (0.6 (3 days per week) Band 6)
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
  • Other
22.5 hours per week (0.6 Band 6)
Job ref
220-WHT-3185
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnet - Edgware Community Hospital
Town
Barnet
Salary
pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
Closing
24/07/2025 23:59

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Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

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Job overview

Barnet Children’s Integrated Therapies have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and self-motivated Occupational Therapist, who is experienced in interdisciplinary working with children and young people in the community. OTs in Barnet work as part of a dynamic Integrated Therapy Team which includes Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants as well as OTs.

The post involves working with children and young people age 0 -19 years in a range of settings including special and mainstream schools and clinics with needs from mild to complex. Your role will be to provide assessment, advice, and treatment to children either in 1:1, groups or integrated MDT groups.

This role involves building relationships with schools as we value working closely with the staff around the child. You will have the opportunity to develop and run new training offers to support parents and schools through the Universal and targeted offer of support.

We have a fixed term post available for the successful candidates to join our Children's Integrated Therapies (CIT) Team, providing an innovative service to children and families in Barnet.

You will have opportunities for Agile working arrangements including the provision of mobile technology and flexible working hours and arrangements.

 

Main duties of the job

Please note a strong Band 5 who is working towards a Band 6 role will be considered as a development opportunity. Alternative working hours and patterns will be considered for this post.

Main duties:

  1. .         Collaborate effectively with key stakeholders including families, education staff, and community partners to support the occupational therapy needs of children within community settings. This includes upskilling others through advice, education, and practical support to promote inclusive and functional participation across environments.
  2. .          To provide an effective and efficient high quality Occupational Therapy universal service for schools and parents to access. This will involve working closely with stakeholders to identify gaps and needs in the service and developing a standard school offer which every school receives.
  3.          Instrumental in the development of training packages for school staff to upskills and educate; supporting understanding of needs and enabling modifications to the environment and activities for optimum participation.
  4.      Plan and deliver parent/carer training through structured group sessions, informal drop-ins, and individual coaching, enabling families to understand and implement therapy strategies at home to support their child’s development and independence.
  5. To carry out and record comprehensive assessments, using a range of standardized and non standardised assessments for children with a range of needs.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead by Clinical Leads recognised for creating a positive work environment, we look forward to receiving your application as the first step towards welcoming you to the Barnet children’s Integrated Therapy Team.

Please see detailed job description and specification attached. Full job description and main responsibilities attached.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
  • Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development
  • HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical Educator training
  • Masters level modules or equivalent courses in speciality

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of rehabilitation relating to specialist area.
  • Excellent specific therapy assessment and treatment skills in field of specialism utilising a range of approaches.
  • Able to independently manage own and others clinical caseload and prioritise as required
  • Demonstrates effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies
  • Clear, concise verbal and written reporting skills
  • Excellent presentation skills of complex information
  • IT skills including word processing and excel

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience working in schools
  • Appropriate assessment tools for this client group
  • Current issues in the delivery of community based services
  • Sound understanding of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Previous NHS experience
  • Day to day clinical supervision of the caseloads allocated to junior team members.
  • Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for staff
  • Involvement in audit and research
  • Previous experience working with children and young people

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria
  • Able to respond to pressure appropriately
  • Flexible approach to work
  • Uses initiative
  • Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
  • Commitment to equal opportunities
  • Professional manner

Other

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrating Trust Values
  • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Morris
Job title
Clinical Lead, Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07510373883

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