Children's Occupation Therapist, Band 7

Job overview

Exciting changes are happening in our team with great opportunities ahead in our newly Integrated Children’s Occupational Therapy service in Waltham Forest, London.

Are you enthusiastic about enabling children and young people to participate in all areas of life as best they can? Do you have Band 6 or 7 experience of working in children's community services? Then we would love to hear from you!

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist. The Children’s Occupational Therapy Team are based in a purpose-built centre, co-located with many other health and local authority children’s services in Waltham Forest. Therapists have good access to clinical space as well as close working relations with the multi-disciplinary teams.

We are looking for an innovative therapist, to work with our team of occupational therapists and support staff, in further developing our service for children and young people, in line with our person centred, goal focussed approach.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex needs and disabilities, affecting functional performance, participation and independence. You will contribute to planning and co-ordinating service delivery. You will need to demonstrate excellent clinical knowledge, highly specialist assessment and advanced therapeutic skills.

You will strive to equip children and young people to develop independence and self management; and to participate in all that supports their leading full and happy lives.

You will be passionate about further developing an effective and responsive integrated service for children and young people and their families/carers in Waltham Forest.

You will be motivated to develop your own learning, contribute to service development and the support, training and development of junior colleagues, peers and students. The successful applicant will thrive on working as part of a team and have excellent communication skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for candidates with good organisational and time management skills who have relevant experience and are keen to continue to develop their practise in our growing Occupational Therapy team.

This post would be suitable for a Band 6 occupational therapist with children’s community experience, ready to take on Band 7 responsibilities or a Band 7 therapist looking for a new challenge.

The successful applicant will thrive on working as part of a team and have excellent communication skills. The role requires close working between 5 band 7s and the clinical lead OT.

There is a well-established appraisal system and a commitment to support staff to develop leadership and clinical skills, through regular supervision and internal and external training opportunities.

The successful candidate will take a leading role in planning and co-ordinating service delivery and will be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with a wide range of difficulties, conditions, or disabilities. You will need to demonstrate excellent clinical knowledge, ability to provide highly specialist assessment and advanced therapeutic skills as well as high standards of time management and organisational skills.

You will be motivated to develop your own learning, contribute to service development and the training and development of colleagues and students.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details on this vacancy.