Senior Childrens Occupational Therapist

Employer Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site The Lyng Centre for Health & Social Care Town West Bromwich Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/09/ :59

Senior Childrens Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Here at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust we’re committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities whilst employing people to our organisation who meet our Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. With the opening of our new hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, it’s the coming together of expertise from every corner of our organisation and a show of our commitment to provide better healthcare and create more jobs and so much more. We at the Trust actively encourage Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled applicants, as well as members of the armed forces community and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce.

Job overview

We are looking for a creative, experienced Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in working with children and young people. In this new role, you will work closely with senior colleagues to help shape and deliver our Occupational Therapy service into local schools, using a tiered model approach.

Children's Therapies is a friendly, supportive team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech & Language Therapists who work closely together in locality bases, clinics and schools. As a result there is regular opportunity for innovation and integrated working to achieve the best outcome for the children and young people we see.

Main duties of the job

To deliver Occupational Therapy advice and support to enable children to participate in the full range of school activities available to them.

To deliver training to staff in school to help develop awareness of the needs of children, and advice on strategies to address this.

To produce written resources and reports.

To assess for / recommend appropriate equipment and environmental adjustments to support access to the curriculum.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work in collaboration with senior colleagues and partners in education to agree priorities for Occupational Therapy support within identified school settings.

To complete assessments of children’s needs using a range of standardised and non standardised activities.

To develop therapy programmes to enable children to access the school environment, develop their skills and participate in school based activities.

To provide advice and support to staff in school and parents, to enable therapy recommendations to be integrated into the child’s daily routine.

To deliver treatment sessions on an individual or small group basis, evaluating the effectiveness of these using agreed outcome measures.

To maintain accurate clinical records and produce reports for statutory assessment where required.

Person specification

Experience

• Post graduation experience of working with children with a range of presentations impacting their participation in activities
• Experience in writing reports for EHCPs
• Experience of supporting children with sensory differences within the school setting

Qualifications

• Relevant professional degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Current UK Driving Licence

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

• Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
• Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
• Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked Service Solution' approach across the four sites

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department by joining ourGreen Impact programme.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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