Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist - Fixed term

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Annual leave + bank holidays

Salary sacrifice schemes

Staff discounts

Cycle to work

Salary finance

Credit Union services

Job summary

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic children's therapies services on a fixed-term 9-month contract (21.75 hours). You will work with HCPC registration to support children across home, community, and school settings using the Balanced System framework.

The role involves assessment, diagnosis and treatment, liaising with health, education and social services, and delivering a high-quality service in a variety of

Qualifications

• HCPC registered to practise as an occupational therapist.
• Experience delivering paediatric OT in varied settings.
• Knowledge of multidisciplinary collaboration and balanced system approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children with complex needs.
• Work as part of the children's therapy services team across home, community and school settings.
• Liaise with health, education and social services to ensure high-quality service.
• Supervise students and contribute to service development.

Skills

HCPC registered

Specialist Children's OT

Team collaboration

Job description

Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist - Fixed term 9 months (21.75 hours)

We are excited to offer the opportunity for experienced OTs registered with HCPC to join our dynamic children's therapies services in Stockport.

We are an innovative service and have been undergoing transformation using The Balanced System (R) approach over the last few years. This puts us in an excellent position to deliver the Experts at Hand model in the SEND reforms.

Are you the OT we are looking for to join our team? We hope so and would love to hear from you.

This Role Is To

• provide an occupational therapy service, to children in Stockport using The Balanced System (R) framework. The successful candidate will be expected to meet the functional needs of children across their home learning environment, their community and in educational settings at universal, targeted and specialist level and across the 5 strands of the balanced system® framework.
• work as a member of a team, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children with varied and complex functional difficulties.
• liaise with health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary carers and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service.
• work in a variety of settings / be placed based i.e. seeing children either in their own homes, community settings or nurseries, mainstream schools, resource units and special schools and clinics with a range of complex special needs

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• To work as part of the children’s therapy services team providing support to ensure a continuum of offer is available in the local area using the balanced system® matrix
• To create / develop ‘mini balanced system’ offer in own area of work
• To perform advanced therapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex difficulties, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• To be responsible for your own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and case conferences. Access to advice and support from a highly specialist occupational therapist is available, if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• Supervise, educate and assess the performance of Students (this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification).
• Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical team leader for changes to practice. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service guidelines

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits We Offer To You

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Pigeon Job title: Occupational Therapy Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 204 4154