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Job summary

Main area
Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (no additional details)
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Work to include Mondays)
Job ref
196-LIS9577
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Evelina London Children's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
18/06/2025

Employer heading

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

We are seeking an energetic, motivated and passionate Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) who is dedicated to implementing and further developing high quality evidence informed Occupational Therapy in the specialist outpatient Skeletal Dysplasia Service.

This exciting new post will be supported by an experienced Band 7 and be based in the paediatric OT team at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital site.

There may also be potential for the post to evolve into a substantive role.

Main duties of the job

This nationally and internationally visible service has undergone significant expansion and is the leading centre in the United Kingdom for children with skeletal dysplasia, which includes achondroplasia. Many of the children will have short stature and may present with additional medical and/or neurodevelopmental conditions resulting in challenges developing their independence in their daily occupations.

 

The successful applicant will work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team in clinics. The post holder will provide consultation and advice across all domains of occupation, supporting children and young people (0-16 years), with a skeletal dysplasia to develop independence in areas of self-care, school, work and leisure/play alongside their families and local teams. The successful applicant will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, as the role will involve close liaison and partnership with multi-disciplinary teams and community colleagues in health, education and other appropriate agencies.

Working for our organisation

The Evelina London Children’s Hospital is a supportive place to work with opportunities for professional development which include:

 

·       A comprehensive induction program and workplace mentoring to ensure a great start and ongoing support to excel

·       Individually tailored professional development programs

·       The prospect to further develop specialist knowledge and skills in assessment and intervention for children within your caseload as you will work in consultation with the Skeletal dysplasia team.   

·       Opportunities for multi-disciplinary learning.

·       Potential to participate in departmental audits or research projects.

·       Opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills through participation in team and hospital wide continuing professional development programmes, supervision of junior staff members and students, appraisal, in-service training and joint working.

·       Individual supervision will be undertaken with the Band 7 Occupational Therapist in the Skeletal Dysplasia team. You will be professionally managed by a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist working within the Paediatric Occupational Therapy team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide a specialist level Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist caseload of children in the Evelina London Skeletal Dysplasia service and related services as required.

 

  • To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy Service to a caseload using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach.

 

·       To develop positive and collaborative working relationships across hospital and community services and deliver networked care with your counterparts.

  • To support clinical Occupational Therapy developments, audit and research within Children’s Services and related Trust wide projects as they relate to your field of practice.

 

·       To be responsible for the maintenance and development of your CPD and continuous    learning.

·       To supervise and develop Occupational Therapy assistants.

To be responsible for the education of Occupational Therapy Students on Fieldwork Practice.  

Please see attached job description for full details 

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • • State Registration HCPC
  • • Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Postgraduate experience in adult and or children in physical disability.
  • • Experience of multidisciplinary team working and multi-agency working.
Desirable criteria
  • • Minimum 2 years clinical experience
  • • Experience of working with children with disorders of posture and movement
  • • Proven experience in developing and providing education and teaching programmes to other professionals and families

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work autonomously with individuals and groups.
  • • Knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process relating to client centred practice.
  • • Demonstrate application of evidence based practice into a clinical setting
  • • Understand and apply principles of risk management to clinical practice.
  • • Ability to manage and recognise differences of opinion in both patient related and inter-professional settings coping positively with interpersonal tensions/barriers
Desirable criteria
  • • Having a working knowledge of child development
  • • Knowledge of research and the audit process

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • • Excellent communication and interactive skills.
  • • Well-developed personal, organisational and time management skills.

Additional

Essential criteria
  • • Adherence to Royal College of Occupational Therapy and HCPC guidelines and codes of ethics and professional conduct.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Kathryn Johnson
Job title
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist
Email address
kathryn.johnson6@nhs.net
Telephone number
02071889427
Additional information

We highly recommend that you arrange to visit the team and/or arrange telephone call to discuss the post prior to applying.

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