Children's Specialist Occupational Therapist

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others. There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

The Children’s Integrated Therapies Service (CITS) is a multi-therapies service, embedded in a multi-disciplinary, community children’s team. Centrally based within the Child Development Centre in Hillingdon, with services delivered from settings across the borough. This is a unique role with a split across our primary service and part role within Specialist Resource Provisions in the borough of Hillingdon.

The service is open to all children and young people aged 0-19 with a range of needs. We work along with our therapy colleagues and other agency partners to deliver a service which supports and promotes the health and development of children and young people who are experiencing barriers to participation in everyday occupations.

Main duties of the job include:

• Demonstrating confidence and competence in delivering assessment and therapy in a range of settings.
• Working autonomously with an understanding of safe lone working.
• Developing leadership skills with the responsibility of day-to-day operational management of junior staff.
• Contributing to areas of service development.

In this role as a member of the Children’s Integrated Therapies Service, you will be expected to be a competent Occupational Therapist who is able to autonomously deliver evidence-based therapy to children and young people through full age ranges and across a variety of needs.

Education and Qualification requirements include:

• Recognised Occupational Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent.
• Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Successful completion of post graduate specialist short courses.
• Attendance at relevant special interest group/clinical excellence group.

Skills and Knowledge required:

• Good knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group.
• Good knowledge of appropriate therapeutic interventions.
• Good knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.

Experience required includes:

• Comprehensive experience and practice in Paediatric Occupational Therapy.
• Experience of working in schools or education settings.
• Experience of supervising students/more junior members of staff.

We recognise that Band 6’s are the backbone teams, supporting with leadership and managerial tasks within clinical teams and we will therefore support their development both clinically and managerially.

Applications must remain personal, accurate, and reflective of the candidate’s real experience. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.