Job summary
An exciting opportunity and innovative opportunity has arisen within our Community Children's Occupational Therapy team. We are looking for an experienced occupational therapist to join London Evelina Community Children Occupational Therapy services to provide assessment and intervention to children with neurodevelopmental disorders and provide assessment for Special Education Needs and Disabilities. The postholder will work across both of our sites: Sunshine House Child Development centre and Mary Sheridan Children and Young people centres.
The successful applicant will working be within a large team of Evelina Community Occupational Therapists that support services to the Evelina community population in Southwark and Lambeth and will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team and Local Authority SEND partnership. The multidisciplinary team includes Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, dieticians, complex needs nursing team and an office administration service. The Occupational Therapy service provides services to children presenting with developmental difficulties from birth to 19 years.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to provide highly specialist advice, assessment and intervention to support the integration and inclusion of children at home, school and in the community.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 27th November 2025
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have the opportunity to work alongside the Occupational Therapy leadership team and support service development and quality improvement and participate in transformation work within their roles.
You will have the opportunity to provide various models of care ranging from direct intervention including groups, parent intervention and advice & consultation. The post holder will be professionally supported through supervision and given the opportunity to further develop and build on their specialist clinical skills and knowledge with the support of Evelina Healthcare Community Children's Occupational Therapy Services.
As well as supervise band 6 Occupational Therapists, the post will provide you with the following opportunities:
- To both lead and participate in service training
- To conduct audits
- To lead on care pathways, service developments and participate in service transformation work to improve OT pathways
About us
You will working within a large team of Occupational Therapists that truly believe in putting children and their families at the centre of what we do.
You will be supporting babies, children, young people (0-19 years), with a wide range of health, physical, learning or development difficulties and/or disabilities. We aim to enable a child's participation within their own environment, and as such your work will be across home and education settings, as well as in our child development centres.
You will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, including Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Dietitians, School Nurses, Health Visitors, and the administrators which support the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities.
- To carry out advanced Occupational Therapy assessments and treatments of children referred to the service who have a range of special needs particularly children with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. This will include completing Education and Health Needs assessments on behalf of Special Education Needs and Disabilities Team (SEND)
- To provide advice and consultation to SEND in panel meetings
- To manage a highly specialist caseload independently
- To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non-standardised assessments in order to help contribute and formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary outcomes.
- To identify and select from a wide variety of therapeutic interventions which is evidence based using a client centred approach considering any clinical risk.
- To teach and demonstrate specific therapeutic techniques to parents/carers and education staff to enable them to carry out an Occupational Therapy programme designed specifically for their child.
- Evaluate client intervention and progress using appropriate outcome measures and evaluation tools. Modify treatment programmes as appropriate and discharge clients when the need for Occupational Therapy is no longer indicated.
- To provide the Occupational Therapy services to children in schools. This will involve the management, co-ordination and delivery of therapy on site, supervising more junior occupational therapy staff. The therapist will liaise directly with the Head Teacher and staff on issues such as setting of priorities and teacher training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities.
- To carry out advanced Occupational Therapy assessments and treatments of children referred to the service who have a range of special needs particularly children with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. This will include completing Education and Health Needs assessments on behalf of Special Education Needs and Disabilities Team (SEND)
- To provide advice and consultation to SEND in panel meetings
- To manage a highly specialist caseload independently
- To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non-standardised assessments in order to help contribute and formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary outcomes.
- To identify and select from a wide variety of therapeutic interventions which is evidence based using a client centred approach considering any clinical risk.
- To teach and demonstrate specific therapeutic techniques to parents/carers and education staff to enable them to carry out an Occupational Therapy programme designed specifically for their child.
- Evaluate client intervention and progress using appropriate outcome measures and evaluation tools. Modify treatment programmes as appropriate and discharge clients when the need for Occupational Therapy is no longer indicated.
- To provide the Occupational Therapy services to children in schools. This will involve the management, co-ordination and delivery of therapy on site, supervising more junior occupational therapy staff. The therapist will liaise directly with the Head Teacher and staff on issues such as setting of priorities and teacher training.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working and multi agency working.
- Previous experience of working in community and/or education settings
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills in relation to treatment and assessment of paediatric clients.
- Experience of managing other occupational therapists/ support staff.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills in relation to treatment and assessment of paediatric clients.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of assessment and treatment techniques for paediatric neuro development.
Skills
Essential
- Able to organise and manage own caseload, and delegate to less senior members of staff.
- Have a understanding of the Special Education Needs Legislation
- Show evidence of being selfmotivated and remaining updated with professional practice and new research.
- Able to formulate care programmes, and identify goals.
Knowledge
Essential
- Recognised training course for an Occupational therapist.
- State registered Occupational Therapist (Health Professional Council)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working and multi agency working.
- Previous experience of working in community and/or education settings
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills in relation to treatment and assessment of paediatric clients.
- Experience of managing other occupational therapists/ support staff.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills in relation to treatment and assessment of paediatric clients.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of assessment and treatment techniques for paediatric neuro development.
Skills
Essential
- Able to organise and manage own caseload, and delegate to less senior members of staff.
- Have a understanding of the Special Education Needs Legislation
- Show evidence of being selfmotivated and remaining updated with professional practice and new research.
- Able to formulate care programmes, and identify goals.
Knowledge
Essential
- Recognised training course for an Occupational therapist.
- State registered Occupational Therapist (Health Professional Council)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
