Childrens Community Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Children's Occupational Therapy provides services to children aged 0-19 who have physical disabilities or difficulties that affect their ability to participate in daily activities. By joining our established and dynamic county-wide service, you will work closely with a dedicated team.

We collaborate proactively with colleagues in health and education, offering a range of appointments tailored to individual needs. These include clinic assessments, school or nursery visits, and home-based interventions. Our service also offers parent workshops, group treatments, and is developing a training portfolio for education staff.

With extensive clinical knowledge across our team, we provide an in-house CPD program and external personal development opportunities. Our agreed development plan, to which all staff contribute, includes opportunities to develop leadership and project management skills.

We actively welcome students from various universities and support all staff in contributing to student and staff development. If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children, enjoy a varied caseload, and thrive in a team environment, this could be the perfect job for you.

You will hold a mixed caseload of children including those with physical disabilities and other motor difficulties that impact daily task performance. Visits to home, school and other community settings will be required to support children to meet their occupational performance goals.

Main duties of the job

• To provide an occupational therapy assessment and treatment service to children referred to the service.
• To identify Occupational Therapy need using clinical analysis considering the child, the task and the environment.
• To practice in a range of clinical areas including, schools, early years settings, children's homes and other community settings.
• Communicate effectively with children and their families, formal and informal carers, referrers and staff from health, social care and voluntary sector agencies.
• Provide training sessions to parents and other processionals.
• Work as a part of a team and contribute to service wide service development.
• To provide supervision to other staff and support staff and student development.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications