Band 6 Children\'s Occupational Therapist

NHS; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a motivated Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist for their Children's Integrated Therapy Team in Trowbridge. The role involves managing a complex caseload of children, providing assessments and treatments across various settings, including schools and homes. Candidates should possess a relevant degree and strong communication skills. The position offers competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional development, contributing significantly to children's health and well-being.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Flexible wage access

Online and face-to-face wellbeing support

Professional development opportunities

Innovation funding for new ideas

Qualifications

• You must have a relevant degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Experience in working with children with various needs is essential.
• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with children, families, and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Complete comprehensive assessments of children's needs.
• Work collaboratively with families and education settings.
• Maintain accurate professional documentation.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Motivation

Flexibility

Education

Relevant degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist

HCRG Care Group is looking for a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist to join our Children's Integrated Therapy Team in Wiltshire. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people aged 0-19 years, supporting them and their families to achieve their full potential.

As a Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, managing a complex and varied caseload of children with a wide range of needs. You will deliver specialist assessment, treatment, and ongoing management, working collaboratively with families, carers, education settings, and other professionals.

You will work across a range of community settings, including clinics, nurseries, schools, and children's homes, providing flexible and responsive care across Wiltshire.

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities

• To complete comprehensive assessments of needs for the children.
• To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.
• To communicate effectively with children and young people, families and other professionals to agree joint goals for therapy.
• To use and analyse a range of appropriate outcome measures.
• To adapt practice and identify strategies to meet individual patient and family circumstances, including cultural and linguistic difference and auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic aspect of the clients communication.
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date professional documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports. This job description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops or changes to align with service needs. Any such changes will be discussed directly between the post holder and their line manager.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £38,682 - £46,580 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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.