Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist- (Internal) FTC

Job summary

Positive Directions (Vanguard) AHP Team - Trauma Informed Practice, Children and Young People.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children and Young People's Positive Directions (Vanguard) AHP Team for a Band 7 Clincial Specialist Occupational Therapist 0.4wte for 20 months (until end of March 2027)

Positive Directions is an ICB funded initiative that uses a social prescribing model with trauma informed practice to offer targeted support to children and young people least likely to have their needs met through mainstream support. For example, this includes children and young people at risk of criminal activity or prolonged school avoidance. The AHP team includes Occupational therapy and Speech and language therapy.

The OT role includes opportunities to work in community settings, hospital settings, and school settings.

This unique and innovative OT role provides occupational therapy assessment, clinical reasoning, and clinical recommendations, primarily through consultation to practitioners working directly with children and young people open to Positive Directions. The OT role is continuing to emerging and requires clinical leadership and an innovative approach from someone with an interest in developing and evaluating a unique role, in conjunction with the AHP Directorate Lead.

This role is supported by an 8a Advanced OT, who will provide supervisory support. Secondments will be considered, in line with the CWPT acting up and Secondment policy.

Main duties of the job

For further information regarding this role, please view the attached job description and personal specification

There is an option of some remote working and the roles have a physical presence at the Coventry City Centre office base, 1 Friargate.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect