This post leads early years OT work within the children's OT team at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. The post holder advises on OT for early years children within the team and to other health professionals and external agencies, and leads service development. Alongside clinical work, it involves supervising junior staff and OT students in a multidisciplinary setting. Applicants need HCPC registration and extensive early years experience with disabled children in community OT.
What the job involves
- Act as the source of clinical expertise and advice on OT for early years children, within the team and for other health professionals and external agencies
- Lead on developing a high-quality OT service for early years
- Carry out clinical OT work with children
- Supervise junior staff, assistants and OT students
- Assist with and lead on service developments
- Receive supervision and support from senior team members
Qualifications
- OT degree or diploma
- Post-qualification paediatric training
- Evidence of self-directed learning and CPD
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
Experience
- Extensive early years experience, including with disabled children in a community OT setting
- Working with children and families using a family and child-centred approach
- Teaching peers, assistants or students
- Working in community settings, including a local authority in the UK
- Supervising junior staff, assistants or students
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating effectively with children, parents and staff, including children with significant communication difficulties
- Excellent report writing and record keeping
- Good organisational and time management
- Facilitating others to deliver OT treatment programmes
- Clear understanding of OT skills for children with disabilities
- Excellent clinical knowledge and well-established OT assessment and treatment skills
Other
- Commitment to service development
Nice to have
- Bobath or neurodevelopmental training, and knowledge of neurodevelopment input
- Postural management training, with postural management and equipment skills
- Equipment and adaptations training, and knowledge of specialist equipment
- Sensory training, and knowledge of sensory strategies and interventions
- Experience of coaching and co-operative approaches, and of running parent groups on sensory and functional needs
- Experience participating in or leading audits
- Experience working with children with autism and ADHD
- Knowledge of developmental milestones and experience with developmental checklists
What's offered
- Education and training throughout the career
- Supervision and support from senior team members
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