Band 5 Children\\\'s Occupational Therapist in Harlow

As a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards.

We are looking for a permanent Band 5 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest. You will join our award-winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we are trailblazing a new integrated partnership model with Barnardo's.

As a Children’s Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for a caseload of children in the Harlow area, working at universal, targeted and specialist levels. You’ll work closely with our team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, within a diverse multidisciplinary team. You will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues and access regular supervision with a Band 7 Occupational Therapist.

You will carry a mixed complex caseload of children aged 0-19 years, delivering specialist interventions across a range of areas. You will work in settings including schools, community clinics/hubs, homes and special schools, providing a high standard of child-centred service delivery, in line with best practice.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration. You will have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach to ensure you deliver positive experiences to service users at every stage of their healthcare journey.

As this is a community role, it is essential that you hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Sarah Eaton via email: sarah.eaton@hcrgcaregroup.com.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.

Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices.