This post sits in the Community Children's Occupational Therapy team at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder assesses and treats children from pre-school to secondary age, supports Education, Health and Care Plan assessments and represents Wandsworth Council at SEND tribunals. Work is spread across clinics, schools, nurseries and homes, with lone, uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary working, and hybrid office and home patterns. HCPC registration and extensive experience with children who have SEND are essential.
What the job involves
- Assess and treat children from pre-school to secondary age to maximise their potential and independence
- Manage children with SEND autonomously, giving advice and input within their statutory SEN plans
- Provide specialist care for children with physical disabilities
- Work with Wandsworth Council's Special Needs Assessment Section on the EHCP assessment process
- Represent Wandsworth Council at SEND First-tier Tribunals
- Advise and support health colleagues, teaching staff, parents and carers, including on complex cases
- Provide a structured framework of advice for education staff working with children with OT needs
- Deliver training and advice to carers and professionals
- Deliver therapy at clinic sites, mainstream schools, early years settings and clients' homes
- Work as a lone practitioner or within uni-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary teams across sites
What's required
Qualifications
- Relevant qualifications and evidence of CPD
- Postgraduate training, including relevant postgraduate courses
Registration & licences
- Registration with the HCPC
Experience
- Significant experience working with children, with a sound understanding of NHS policies and procedures
- Extensive experience with children who have SEND
- Extensive experience with children who have CP, DCD or GDD
- Extensive knowledge of child development and the role of occupation in childhood
- Excellent understanding of postural management and experience prescribing children's seating and bathing equipment
- Experience writing EHCNAs and annual review reports, and of standardised assessments and clinical observations
Skills & knowledge
- Independently managing a complex caseload and solving complex problems, reflecting on practice
- Clear communication, active listening and rapport-building, with good presentation skills
- Adaptability, working under pressure, and prioritising and organising workload and time
- Writing concise, legible notes and reports
- Knowledge of UK legislation for children, particularly SEND, and the SEND reforms
- Current knowledge of physical and developmental disabilities, autism and DCD, and the role of OT in these
Other
- Demonstrating the Trust's values
Nice to have
- Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Membership of specialist interest groups, CYPF or BAOT
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent postgraduate training
- Experience planning and running groups with children
- Experience representing the OT service at SEND tribunals
- Experience working in UK mainstream schools and nurseries with children with OT needs
- Experience using trauma-informed, CO-OP or sensory integration approaches
- Experience working with infants with complex needs
What's offered
- Regular supervision and access to internal and external training
- Protected time for CPD activities
- Leadership and professional development support
- Hybrid working between office and home
- Flexible working arrangements
- Staff health and wellbeing programme
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
