Senior Occupational Therapist - Paediatric Team

Job overview

Senior Occupational Therapist - Paediatric Team

Directorate: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 6

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro rata

Please note this role is Fixed term/Secondment for 12 months covering maternity leave

We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

he successful post holder will work in an integrated therapy team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, providing excellent therapy care to patients in assessment areas and the wards.

The Paediatric Senior Occupational Therapist will have the opportunity to work with children with a wide range of different conditions as well as supporting our Women's service.

You will work within the multi-disciplinary team, working closely with consultants, site practitioners, flow coordinators, nursing staff and specialist nurses, community therapy services and discharge teams.

The role will provide you with experience of working in a challenging and fast-paced acute ward and assessment environments and the opportunity to develop skills within this area.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient case/work load

To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients and children including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes

To deliver individualised Occupational Therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of Occupational Therapy skills in individual and group settings

To continually reassess patients and children progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans

To refer patients and children appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care

To communicate effectively with families and children, carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc. This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may be unable to accept diagnosis/prognosis

To supervise and mentor rotational therapists, students and therapy assistants