Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Silsden; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join a supportive team. The role involves working with children in various settings, including homes and schools, to deliver evidence-based interventions. Candidates should have NHS paediatric experience and a passion for helping young people. The position offers flexible working conditions and participation in exciting new projects, along with numerous employee benefits to enhance work-life balance.

Benefits

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Qualifications

• Experience in outpatient and community settings, including homes and schools.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Skills to assess needs for occupational therapy interventions.

Responsibilities

• Assess children’s needs for occupational therapy interventions.
• Deliver occupational therapy interventions and provide specialist equipment.
• Contribute to service governance and development.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Flexible working skills

Evidence-based practice

Education

NHS paediatric experience

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Paediatric occupational therapist to join our small friendly team. We would like someone who is passionate about working with children and young people, in outpatient and community settings, including patient homes, early years settings and schools (mainstream and specialist). We provide care that is evidence based and delivered with the child and family at the centre. If you want to work as a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist as part of a multidisciplinary team with physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and support workers, please get in touch. The role is open to those who have some NHS paediatric experience alongside transferable skills and attributes from other roles.

Responsibilities

• Assess children’s and young people’s needs for further occupational therapy interventions and equipment.
• Deliver interventions and provide specialist equipment for children and young people.
• Work flexibly and in an agile way to best meet the needs of the caseload.
• Follow clinical pathways and procedures relating to the service.
• Contribute to service governance and development.
• Fulfil statutory SEND responsibilities.
• Act within professional boundaries and access professional development.
• Ensure Occupational Therapy interventions are delivered in line with professional guidelines and evidence.
• Contribute to team, MDT service, OT professional and AHP governance and development.
• Respond to and escalate issues, risks, adverse events, concerns and complaints as appropriate to scope of practice.

About Airedale and our values

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of age, lived experience of disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale. We pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work and have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

What we offer

• There are exciting opportunities to be involved in planning and building a new hospital on our Steeton site by 2030.
• Chance to contribute to a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility and to our digital future, including a new electronic patient record and telemedicine developments.
• Regular supervision, and opportunities for CPD, coaching and personal development.
• Access to a wide range of employee benefits:
• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks: Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network

DBS and application information

If you are offered a position which requires a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost from your first full month’s salary. This is a condition of your employment. In applying for a post that requires a DBS check you are confirming that you have read and understood the DBS Privacy Policy for Enhanced and Standard Checks. You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year.

Contact

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