Community Children's Occupational Therapist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Peterborough seeks an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist for a 12-month contract. The successful candidate will join a supportive team to provide specialized care for children with neurodevelopmental challenges in various community settings. Candidates should be committed to teamwork and possess a degree in Occupational Therapy. This opportunity offers professional development and the chance to work with a diverse range of service users.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated approach to supporting children with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
• Excellent communication skills for working with children and families.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide Occupational Therapy to children aged 0-19 in various community settings.
• Work closely with medical professionals and educational staff.
• Maintain a full clinical caseload and ensure high standards of care.

Skills

Teamwork

Accountability

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

Overview

This post is a 12-month fixed term contract. We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children\'s Occupational Therapy Team. We are a small enthusiastic and hard-working team based at the Child Development Centre. We provide a service for children with neurodevelopmental difficulties or concerns around engagement within meaningful daily activities (from birth to 18 years). You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team and the role will involve providing support to children, young people and their families across Peterborough. The role will provide you with an opportunity to work within a sought after area of Paediatrics and experience wider inter-disciplinary team dynamics. You will also work closely with external agencies and our local authority to support the needs of our service users. The ideal candidate will have a strong teamwork ethic and sense of accountability. In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your post. We are keen to support and develop our staff and encourage further opportunities within the Trust where possible.

Responsibilities

• To provide responsive and accessible Occupational Therapy to children referred to the service, in the most appropriate environment, Child Development Centre, special school, mainstream school and other community settings for children aged 0-19.
• To work in close co-operation with designated Medical Consultants, Community Paediatricians, other health care professionals and staff from agencies such as Education & Social Care.
• To maintain a full clinical caseload. To have joint responsibility and clinical supervision with the team to determine priorities and caseload management to a high professional standard using specialist knowledge and experience.
• To ensure a high standard of care based on agreed prioritisation with all disciplines and agencies involved with the child, young person and their family.
• To communicate with these agencies, parents and children in an appropriate manner, often with sensitive information regarding diagnosis and outcomes.
• To teach parents skills and strategies as appropriate.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your own care.
• To implement the Occupational Therapy Service in respect of treatment of all referred children and young people.
• To organise the caseload in such a way as to make optimum use of personal skills in the context of multi-disciplinary/multi-agency work.
• To assess, treat and evaluate children/young people referred to the service to include individual and other appropriate group work.
• To work in close co-operation with relatives and carers and to offer support as appropriate.
• To maintain close links and liaise with other agencies involved with the child.
• To attend clinics, school reviews and meetings as appropriate.
• To adhere and maintain professional standards and clinical guideline as set by heads of service and the specialist section of the College of Occupational Therapists Children and Young People and Families.
• To develop specialist skills pertaining to the service, attending appropriate courses where funding is available. To be prepared to share these skills with the multi-disciplinary / multi-agency arena.
• To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote an understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to the child’s care including staff in an educational setting.
• To deliver training sessions to parents, carers and other people involved in the child’s care on topics including sensory processing, fine motor skills and coordination difficulties.

About CPFT and Equal Opportunities

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children\'s, adult and older people\'s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Additional Information

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Advert closes on Wednesday 15 Oct 2025