Children's Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead

Job summary

Join Our Supportive & Dynamic Paediatric Team! Are you an experienced and compassionate Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career or take on a new challenge?

We are looking for a driven Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and dedicated paediatric team at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

Through service redesign and development, we have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a permanent and brand new role of Children's Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead for children aged 5-11 years to join our established team!

Main duties of the job

This is an amazing career opportunity to work with children and young people with a wide range of developmental, neurological, and physical needs impacting on their ability to engage in childhood occupations, utilising advanced clinical reasoning and application of skills.

The post holder will be required to effectively manage and coordinate a highly complex caseload of children and young people from 0 to 19 years across a range of health, community and educational settings, whilst also being responsible for clinical leadership of the 5-11 years service, supervision of staff and duties commensurate with a clinical leadership position.

The successful post holder will be required to possess leadership skills and excel at a high standard of working. You will play an instrumental role in the planning, build and review of the new service pathway and treatment offer for primary age children and to meet the demand of ever emerging complex needs and presentations.

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Children's Therapy Team offers high quality and evidence-based interventions for children and young people. We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment with regular supervision and CPD opportunities.

The Childrens Therapy team prides itself as being part of the wider MDT which includes Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues for joined up care, and to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working car

Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Employer's website

https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Employer's website

https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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