Band 7 - Occupational Therapist - North Middlesex

North Middlesex University Hospital (North Mid) are searching for a passionate and experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join their highly skilled team. North Mid provides both hospital and community care, helping to keep people in the best possible health at every stage in their lives. Its maternity, children, and adult services span a range of medical and surgical specialities and its adult and children’s emergency departments are among the busiest in London. North Mid is also proud to offer one of the largest services in the UK dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of red cell haemoglobin conditions, including sickle cell disease and thalassaemia syndromes.

The Role:

• To provide a high standard Occupational Therapy service to children aged 0-18 years referred to Enfield Children’s Occupational Therapy Department.
• To contribute to and lead on aspects of planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service.
• To be responsible for a defined caseload of children in the community, clinics and Durants school.
• To work within the Durants OT schools’ team to develop and provide Occupational Therapy services for students who attend Durants School (a maintained special school for students with ASD, 11-19 years) both at home and school.
• To provide high quality child centred, occupationally focused assessment and intervention for children on the caseload.
• To work with the OT team and school Leadership to plan and develop the OT service into Durants school working at a Universal, Targeted and Specialist level.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner with access to supervision.
• To supervise, appraise and train students and junior staff as required.
• To work effectively and flexibly within an interdisciplinary framework in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment, including working with teachers, community providers, social workers, SLT, psychologists, dieticians, paediatricians, physiotherapists and other professionals.
• To be flexible to the demands of the service in regard to location of work and area of clinical specialism.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of children and young people with a range of needs including those with complex disabilities, providing occupationally focused assessments and intervention.
• To work with the Durants school team to develop a high quality, evidence-based service provision into Durants school.
• To provide both home and school-based OT input to the students in Durants school focusing on occupational areas of need and preparing students for adulthood.
• To set occupationally focused intervention goals with children and/or their parents/carers and school staff.
• To set and maintain high standards of clinical practice, which is evidence-based, and includes outcome measures to monitor achievements of person centred goals and whole class approaches.
• To work within an occupational frame of reference.
• To demonstrate the ability to analyse the interplay of the child, environment and activity when assessing the child’s level of functioning and identifying appropriate strategies and intervention to facilitate and enhance participation in self-care, school and play/leisure.
• To devise and manage a specialised treatment plan individual to a child’s presenting condition through occupationally focused intervention, school equipment provision (as appropriate), school and parental support & training, advice & strategies and programmes.
• To form productive relationships with parents/carers who may be under stress.
• To advise and teach parents/carers and school staff of children with additional needs on appropriate ongoing Occupational Therapy management programmes.
• To develop integrated support plans with schools, multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to ensure effective management in achieving the best care for the child.
• To work as part of the core OT service in the delivery of training and workshop programmes to educational establishments, to best help children achieve outcomes within inclusive facilities.
• To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for moving and handling children in school environments.
• To assess and manage clinical risk concerning the treatment of clients in own caseload and support junior staff to do the same e.g. Manual Handling risk assessment, Trust lone working Policy.
• To implement evidence-based practice and manage clinical risk within specific area of specialism.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness in specialist area through the use of outcome measures and audits.
• To work within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency framework.
• To provide clinical support to junior staff and colleagues.
• To work within the standards and guidelines of the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service, the Trust, the British Association of Occupational Therapy (BAOT) and the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
• To understand and apply National Guidelines and Legislation relating to Health, Education and Social Care in occupational therapy practice.
• To have a good working knowledge of the Code of Practice and Educational Care Health Plans.
• To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines and frequent interruptions.
• To complete other duties that may be delegated as appropriate by senior staff.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values.
• Dip. COT or BSc OT or international equivalent.
• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
• Extensive postgraduate clinical experience of Occupational Therapy.
• Extensive relative experience and practice in Children’s Occupational Therapy including experience of working with Children and Young People (CYP) with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

We are so grateful for the commitment and devotion of our Bank Staff, so are pleased to offer the following benefits:

• Flexible working hours.
• Weekly salary.
• Staffing Bank workers can contribute to their NHS pension.
• Priority of shifts over all agency workers.
• Competitive pay.

Apply now for this fantastic opportunity by uploading your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.