Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join its children's community service. This role involves providing clinical assessments and interventions for children with neurological and developmental conditions. The ideal candidate must have a passion for working with children and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams. A supportive work environment and career progression opportunities are offered. The role requires a commitment to community-based care, emphasizing flexibility and effective communication.

Benefits

Access to specialist clinical support

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Must hold a relevant qualification in Occupational Therapy.
• Demonstrated experience in providing clinical assessments and interventions.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide Occupational Therapy interventions at various levels.
• Develop and implement care plans for children and young people.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient needs.

Skills

Assessment skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Clinical expertise

Education

Qualification in Occupational Therapy

Job description

We are delighted to be able to offer a committed and experienced clinician the opportunity to join our children’s community service. This is a community post, across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions. We would like to recruit an individual who has a keen interest in working with children and families within the community and as part of a multi agency team.

The work will primarily involve a combination of clinic based assessments delivering intervention in the form of prescribed Packages of Care.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the OT service alongside colleagues and the Service Clinical Manager for Paediatric OT. You will also have responsibility for supervision of designated staff.

We work across the whole City, within a range of community/educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.

We value our OTs within the team and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our OTs to contribute to service development, and we value new ideas and experiences.

We offer a supportive working environment with access to specialist clinical support, and an emphasis on sharing good practice through effective team working.

Access to reliable transport or means of travel is essential. The post-holder may be required to transport items of therapy equipment on a regular basis.

To provide Occupational Therapy intervention at a specialist, targeted and universal level, functioning as an integral member of multi-professional team to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention of children and young people according to agreed pathways.

To contribute towards ensuring children and young people with additional needs gain access to a broad, balanced and relevant education, whilst also having their exceptional needs met in an inclusive way.

Provide a source of clinical expertise/advice and guidance for families, carers, educational settings and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

To maintain, develop and promote excellence in clinical practice, with reference to current research and evidence-based practice, contributing to safe effective practice, alongside the service clinical leads.

To develop and maintain effective working relationships with parents / carers and other stakeholders, using negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you

Responsibilities

• Carrying out Occupational Therapy at a universal, targeted and specialist level. This includes assessments, developing and implementing a range of programmes of care and treatment, to meet the needs of the clients, schools, families and their environments, in accordance with agreed pathways and in line with the tired model of service delivery.
• Work as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing Occupational Therapy intervention/support for children and young people.
• To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications.
• Use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments and decision making. Undertaking differential diagnosis of cases and contribute to overall decision-making for complex clients with a range of disorders as part of a team approach.
• Enable and empower staff, parents/caregivers to identify children’s needs and provide strategies to help at the earliest opportunity.
• Provide training and bespoke clinical support to children and young people, early years/ school staff and parents/caregivers.
• Consult and work collaboratively with children and young people, parents, caregivers and school staff to problem solve functional difficulties.
• Develop materials and intervention packages, to be delivered as group therapy and/or one to one sessions in line with the tiered model of service delivery.
• Attend meetings, with staff from the OT team or the wider multi-agency team, as required, to support early identification of need and give appropriate clinical advice.
• Represent the local team/service area in appropriate meetings to support the planning and development of quality services across the city.
• To carry out nursery/school and/or home visits as appropriate teaching/delegating to others to carry out activities as appropriate to support treatment goals.
• Assess, provide and monitor the use of therapeutic equipment as required. This will involve liaising with other agencies, teaching parents or carers about health and safety issues surrounding the equipment to enable its safe use.

This advert closes on Monday 26 Jan 2026