Senior Occupational Therapist in Peterborough

Are you passionate about delivering person-centred care and collaborating as part of a team to support children and young people to thrive in their home environments? Are you committed to continuous learning and making a positive difference? Then this senior Children's Occupational Therapy position within social care could be the perfect opportunity for you!

As a Senior Occupational Therapist in the Children's Occupational Therapy team, you'll play a vital role in supporting children and young people with complex health, social, and housing needs in the community. You'll use your specialist clinical expertise to carry out assessments, recommend tailored interventions, and provide both simple and complex equipment and adaptation solutions to maximise independence and safety. You’ll manage a varied caseload of complex cases as an autonomous practitioner, drawing on advanced problem‑solving and reasoning skills. Working closely with families, carers, and multi‑disciplinary colleagues across health, housing, and social care, you’ll deliver a seamless, child‑centred service that supports meaningful outcomes.

In this role, you’ll also contribute to service development, provide guidance and supervision to junior staff, and act as a specialist resource within the team. Your expertise will help shape high‑quality practice across therapy services while ensuring safe, effective, and innovative ways of working. This role offers the opportunity for you to manage your own diary, with no weekends or bank holidays. Working hours could be 8-4, 9-5 or 9.30-5.30. This is a part-time post of 22.5 hours, the salary quoted is based on 37 hours and will be pro rata accordingly. This role is a rolling advert and may close prior to the advert closing date should we find a suitable applicant.

Our therapy team is a dedicated and supportive group of professionals committed to providing exceptional service and support to our community. We offer a collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. Our team values continuous learning and provides access to ongoing training and education. We are embracing new ways of working and innovation to ensure that we deliver the highest quality of support to the people of Peterborough. We are a small team doing big things and making a big impact. You would be joining a well-established team where respect, teamwork and a supportive environment are key to a successful future. We operate a flexible way of working over the week, you will manage your own diary and there is no weekend working. We are mostly agile and work from home, whilst using the office as an official work base. Our wider Occupational Therapy service supports adults across areas such as moving and handling, adaptations, Technology Enabled Care, Learning Disability, and OT Duty triage. This post sits within our dedicated Children’s Occupational Therapy team, delivering assessment and intervention within the home environment.

Are you a compassionate and proactive professional with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Occupational Therapy, registered with the HCPC? Do you have experience working independently and as part of a collaborative team? Can you bring strong communication and interpersonal skills to support children in social care?

You have significant experience working as a qualified Occupational Therapist, ideally within children's social care, and your robust communication and interpersonal skills enable you to operate effectively both autonomously and as part of a team. Your commitment to continuous professional development is matched by your passion for making a positive difference to children and their families. You possess a range of transferrable skills from your current role, which you apply to provide holistic interventions that consider every aspect of a child's daily life, including their family, within their home environments. Your independent, well‑reasoned judgement and decision‑making abilities are complemented by excellent communication skills, ensuring you are equipped to handle complex situations confidently and sensitively. You will use highly specialist skills to assess the impact of a child's additional needs on their occupational performance through Occupational Therapy assessments tailored to children. You will work collaboratively with other health and social care professionals to deliver comprehensive assessments and interventions that enhance the quality of life for children and families within Peterborough.

Please note this role is based in the community, it is essential that you hold a full driving license and have access to a car to complete home visits.

We value our colleagues and have developed a number of benefits in addition to our generous annual leave starting at 25 days + bank holidays, sick pay and local government pension scheme:

• Access to a range of benefits via our Employee Benefits Platform, including in-store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes
• Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata)
• Access to car lease scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to fostering diversity, advancing equity, and building an inclusive workplace for everyone. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage those from underrepresented groups, including disabled people, care leavers, and individuals from minority ethnic communities. Your unique perspectives and experiences are encouraged and valued and will play a vital role in our success. We are committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you are a person who has or considers yourself to have a disability and you require reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, please contact pccrecruitment@peterborough.gov.uk.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. If you've already applied and completed the recruitment process for this position within the last three months, there's no need to reapply. We really appreciate your interest and thank you for considering us.