Band 6 Children\'s Occupational Therapist in Harlow

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

• Band 6 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 Band 6 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in Essex, to help us continue to change things for the better. Are you a caring and innovative Occupational Therapist with skills in working with children and adolescents with a variety of conditions? Are you interested in working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards?

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage and prioritise your own caseload independently.
• Assess children with performance difficulties and provide tailored self-management advice.
• Recommend and arrange specialist equipment for home and school use.
• Support the Team Lead and Therapies Manager in achieving service targets.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and governance procedures.
• Take part in supervision, training, and team meetings.
• Assess, diagnose, and develop treatment plans in collaboration with patients and carers.
• Write assessment reports and select appropriate therapeutic interventions.
• Deliver and evaluate treatment to ensure effective outcomes.

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• A Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy with HCPC registration and a minimum of two years post-graduate practice in paediatrics.
• Postgraduate training or relevant experience in areas such as child development, autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Experience working with children in a paediatric setting.
• Proficiency in a range of assessments and treatment approaches.
• Strong knowledge of typical and atypical child development.
• Experience delivering Children’s Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.
• Ability to analyse assessments and create SMART goal-based treatment plans.
• Skill in designing and delivering tailored Occupational Therapy programmes.
• Understanding of specialist equipment and postural management.
• Effective multi-agency and multidisciplinary working skills.
• A solid grasp of child protection procedures.
• Knowledge of the EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan) process for children with special educational needs.
• Strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

About the Company:

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. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance. We have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices.