Bank Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust; Northallerton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Bank Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist in Northallerton. This role involves working with children with complex needs, providing assessments, interventions, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance children's occupational performance.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Counselling service

Fast-track Physiotherapy service

Qualifications

• Registration with Health Care Professional Council required.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in area of specialism.

Responsibilities

• Provide Occupational Therapy to children with varying health care needs.
• Undertake assessments and reviews for children in the HDFT footprint.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary service.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

Diploma/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy

Job description

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, we aim to reflect our values in everything we do - Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. So if you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

“We are committed to providing the best possible levels of healthcare and we can only do this with the help of our incredible colleagues. We have a Strategy that is designed to empower, excite and mobilise everyone in the Trust behind a common purpose and that supports our cultural values of Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality.”

Bank Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Bank Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

0 hours per week Job ref 421-PSC-3014C

Site Child Development Centre Town Northallerton Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/05/2025 23:59

Job overview

1.To work as part of an interdisciplinary team in providing and contributing to the development of children’s occupational needs.

2.To be autonomously responsible for a caseload of children with complex and multiple needs.

3.To provide occupational therapy assessment, intervention and evaluation for children requiring inpatient care, or within clinic or community settings and within local authority targeted provisions.

4.To undertake complex clinic, community and school based assessments with intervention programmes that have a focus on improving occupational performance and maximising participation

5.To work within allocated special schools that serve children with complex health and care needs and complete postural and functional assessments to maximise the child’s occupational performance and participation.

6.To work closely with children, families, carers and colleagues in partnership agencies, to identify individualised and meaningful goals that are measurable and achievable.

7.To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions in collaboration with everyone involved, but with the child’s health and well being needs and wishes at the forefront.

8.To advise on and prescribe specialist, assistive equipment at home, school and community settings to support the child and improve or maintain occupational performance.

Main duties of the job

1.Clinical role

· Provide Occupational Therapy to children and young people with varying and complex health care needs.

· To undertake assessment, provision and review to children in the HDFT footprint.

· Take an active role in using outcome measures to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the service.

· To work as an autonomous practitioner within the context of a multidisciplinary service.

· Undertake statutory assessments regarding SEND provision.

· To ensure high standards of service to the client group, their relatives and carers

· To offer advice and training on areas of specialist expertise and make recommendations where appropriate.

· To liaise with other professionals and agencies in the best interests of the caseload.

· To be able to use the equipment required for the fulfilment of the role

· To effectively use available systems

· Work within organisational guidelines, HCPC standards and Royal College of Occupational Therapists guidance.

· To apply national and local standards and monitor own quality of practice.

· To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, caseload and ensuring a high standard of care within the service.

• To manage clinical risk within own complex patient caseload

Working for our organisation

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note:

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
• All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about this position please see the attached job description and person specification

Person specification

• • Registration with Health Care Professional Council
• • Diploma/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy
• • Evidence of on-going professional development in area of specialism
• • UK driving licence
• • Evidence of CPD portfolio
• • Paediatric occupational therapy practice experience.
• • Experience of working within a community setting, &/or a multi-disciplinary team.
• • Practice placement education experience in a related OT clinical speciality e.g. learning disability, physical disability, social services etc, with the ability to transfer OT core skills to the OT process with children & young people
• • Previous experience working as a band 6 within a paediatric setting
• • Membership of the British Association of Occupational therapy
• • Introductory/speciality short courses/study attended
• • Introductory knowledge/experience of current paediatric practice including specialist assessments, Postural assessment, child development, outcome measures, treatment approaches & models of intervention.
• • Direct work experience with children e.g. youth worker, voluntary work, nursery experience
• • Delegation of work to support staff.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.