What are the responsibilities and job description for the Specialist Occupational Therapist, Band 6 Rehabilitation position at The Children's Trust?
An exciting opportunity
has arisen for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Rehabilitation Therapy Team. This role will require the successful candidate to provide a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service, which promotes participation and functional activity of children and young people accessing our neurorehabilitation services.
Our service delivery aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe care, function and participation of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life. You will deliver child and family focused, goal led interventions at a specialist level within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting.
Staff benefits include London weighting, shuttle bus, and more… Read more below
Role Requirements
- Provide high quality, evidence based occupational therapy provision for children and young people, in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and education services.
- Undertake specialist occupational therapy assessments of children with a range of needs including highly complex needs.
- Develop therapy goals, in collaboration and with the child and family / carers, as well as the MDT, to maximise recovery and facilitate the participation of the child in their daily life.
- Devise and carry out therapeutic interventions that are developmentally appropriate, goal directed, and occupation centred both in terms of means and outcome.
- Use observational and standardised outcome measures to monitor and evaluate each child’s progress and adjust intervention / programmes, as necessary.
- Contribute to the assessment of the child / young person’s upper limb and support provision of interventions to maintain or improve upper limb range and function where possible.
- Assess and advise on specialist equipment and liaise with social services and relevant others on its provision. This may be loaned equipment for use at The Children’s Trust or recommendations of equipment for long-term use on return to home.
With experience of working in a complex environment, across a large and diverse workforce, you will be exceptionally organised with a high-level of attention to detail. You will naturally possess excellent inter-personal skills, and an ability to consult and positively engage with key stakeholders across the organisation.
Interview Date : To be confirmed.
If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Recruitment & Compliance Team, on 01737 365 880 or email :
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE NOTE : The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.
Strictly no agencies, please.
As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.
