Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist: Paediatric Neurosciences

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist who is passionate about working with children and young people.

This role is a permanent contract (0.6WTE) 22.5 hours/week working Wednesday - Friday.

You will be part of the wider Neurosciences & Oncology in and out-patient team, with a particular focus on children in our Brain Injury Living Life Team (BRILL team). This is a specialist service working with children and young people from across the East Midlands admitted to Nottingham Children's Hospital following diagnosis of an acquired brain injury. You will also support cross cover throughout our Children's OT team where needed.

You will join an enthusiastic research-led specialist service, working flexibly in conjunction with Band 7 peers and the wider therapy neurosciences team, to provide teaching and training as well as managing your own complex caseload. You will be expected to work collaboratively with the senior leadership team to ensure adherence to national guidelines, best therapy practice, and employ an evidence-based approach to implement service development.

As part of the wider Children's Occupational Therapy team, you will be asked to support a rostered weekend working service to support our more straightforward MSK in-patient discharges. This is approximately 1 on-call morning every 2 months. We will support you to ensure you have the basic competencies to do this confidently.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Work closely with the MDT whilst delivering a high standard of Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention with an Inpatient and Outpatient caseload.
• Have experience or transferable skills of working with children and young people with Neurological conditions including oncology.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload.
• Work closely with community colleagues across the region to support with the discharge and ongoing rehabilitation for children and young people with neurological conditions.
• Help develop and lead service improvements within the Neurosciences service, and the wider Children's Occupational Therapy service.
• Demonstrate commitment to the learning of others and provide training and mentorship to a number of staff through appraisal, clinical supervision, and teaching.
• Have excellent communication skills.
• You will be an active member of the weekend working rota.

About us

The Nottingham Children's Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and Neonatal care is supported on both the QMC and City campuses. We provide In-patient and out-patient care for children up to the age of 19 years old.

With 97 beds, we care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions, including planned and emergency treatment and surgery, Burns and Plastics, Neurological conditions, Oncology, Paediatric critical care, Renal conditions and transplantation, and Spinal and Orthopaedic care.

The Children's Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department that works closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence-based care and innovative ways of working.

Throughout NUH, we have a diverse range of AHP and support staff who work together to deliver the high-quality care we aspire to.

Date posted

16 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

164-7114821

Job locations

QMC and the community, Nottingham, NG7 2UH

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for further details around the post.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• BSc Hons (or equivalent) Occupational Therapy
• Full Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registration
• Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty preferably including MSc or completed modules

Experience Essential

• Wide-ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area or clear ability to demonstrate value of transferable knowledge and skills to specialist area.
• Knowledge of management processes to be able to provide 1st line management
• Able to evaluate current research and make recommendations for change in practice and implement these changes

Desirable

• Have previously worked in the NHS

Communication and relationship Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to discuss treatment options and recommend the best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational, and reassurance skills.
• Communicate complex patient-related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors.

Analytical and Judgement Essential

• Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of other staff.
• Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of very complex patients.
• Analyse information from clinical assessments and make judgements about appropriate interventions for highly complex patients.

Planning & Organisation Essential

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand.
• Able to lead in the development, review, and implementation of relevant policies and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns.

Physical skills Essential

• Able to handle and move complex patients safely and in a way which promotes rehabilitation if applicable.
• Able to use and/or manoeuvre a range of medical devices including, for example, handling/assistive and anthropometric equipment if applicable.

Other requirements Essential

• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust.
• Undertake out of hours duties (weekends, on calls, and Bank Holidays) as required in Paediatrics.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

QMC and the community, Nottingham, NG7 2UH

Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)