Children’s Community Occupational Therapist

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join their children's community team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with children facing developmental challenges, including neurodevelopmental conditions. You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering essential therapies across various settings such as schools and homes. The organization is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care while fostering an inclusive work environment. If you are passionate about making a difference in children's lives and have the relevant qualifications, this position could be your next career step.

Qualifications

• Recognised Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy required.
• Registered member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.

Responsibilities

• Provide physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy to children.
• Support children’s participation goals in various community settings.

Skills

Client Centred Practice

Child Development Knowledge

Reflective Practice

Safeguarding Guidelines

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Education

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Registered with Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Job description

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Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

08.05.2025

Expiry Date:

22.06.2025

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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our children’s community team in Barts Health NHS Trust in Tower Hamlets. You will be based in Mile End Hospital.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience working within the following areas:

• Neurodevelopmental conditions; including Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Learning Disability, and Neurodevelopmental Motor Disorders
• Opportunity to support the child’s participation goals in the home, school, nursery or other community settings.

Children’s Occupational Therapy experience is not essential, but we are looking for an Occupational Therapist who has a solid understanding of the OT process.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children’s Therapies team provides physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy for children and young people up to the age of 19 in Tower Hamlets. Most of the children and young people we work with have developmental difficulties which often are linked to a medical diagnosis e.g. cerebral palsy or autism.
Our services are delivered in clinics, schools, nursery settings, children and family centres and homes. You will be required to complete visits in a variety of settings eg homes, schools, children’s centres. As well as working at a ‘specialist’ level where we accept referrals for individual children and young people to our service, we also work with partner organisations like schools and children and family centres to enable other professionals to support families at a ‘targeted’ level. Building the capacity of other professionals and parents to support children and young people with developmental difficulties is a key priority for our team.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Degree/Diploma in Occupational therapy
• Registered member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists and the Health Professionals Council.
• Attendance at specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to post.

Experience

• Knowledge of essentials of client centred practice
• Experience of providing personalised care to individuals, adapting the care to an individual’s needs.
• Experience of following child/adult safeguarding guidelines.
• Evidence of engaging in reflective practice.
• Experience of working in Paediatrics.
• Experience of working in the community clinic setting.
• Experience of using coaching to support adult learning.
• Experience of training others or supporting the education of others, including use of virtual platforms to do this.
• Experience in the organisation and presentation of workshops, courses or other training packages.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge

• Theoretical and basic knowledge of child development.
• Theoretical knowledge of assessment tools / interventions relevant to client group(s).
• Understanding of Occupational Performance and how this relates to clients.
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk
• Knowledge around universal, targeted and specialist delivery.
• Knowledge of most common developmental difficulties e.g. autism and how these can impact on children and their families.
• Knowledge of a range of interventions and well developed applied knowledge of more specialised intervention techniques relevant to the client group(s).