Band 6 Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist

Package Description

You will be a valued Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:   

•  Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you  

• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates  

• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling    

• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise   

Job Introduction

We are looking for a permanent Band 6 Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest.    

You will join our award winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we are trail blazing a new integrated partnership model with Barnardo’s; a model that drives efficiencies so we can put more people in our services, spending time with children and families to improve health outcomes in the local community. 

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for a caseload of children in the Epping Forest area, working at universal, targeted and specialist levels. 

You’ll work closely with our team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, within a diverse multidisciplinary team with other dedicated staff as part of our innovative Child and Family Wellbeing Service.

You will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues and access regular supervision with a Band 7 Occupational Therapist.  

Main Responsibilities

You will carry a mixed complex caseload, of children aged 0-19 years, delivering specialist interventions across a range of areas. 

You will work in settings including schools, community clinics/hubs, homes and special schools, providing a high standard of child centred service delivery, in line with best practice. 

• Assess, differentially diagnose, formulate treatment plans (in collaboration with patients and carers), write assessment reports, identify and choose appropriate therapeutic or clinical management techniques from a range of options, provide appropriate therapeutic intervention and evaluate treatment outcomes
• Provide advice on patient care to other health, social care, educational and voluntary sector services. This may involve visiting other establishments such as the child’s home, mainstream and special schools, nurseries and specialist clinics.
• Provide complex and sensitive information to patients in a manner that they can understand e.g. regarding developmental challenges and management.
• Assess for, recommend, source and train patient and carers in the use of specialist equipment as required, both in the child’s home and school.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

• You will be a qualified Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration and a minimum of two years post graduate practice in paediatrics, with experience of working with children and young people in the community.

• You will have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to service users at every stage of their healthcare journey. 
• As this is a community role, it is essential that you hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes.  

As this is a community role, it is essential that you hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes. 

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Sarah Eaton via email: sarah.eaton@hcrgcaregroup.com    

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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