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A Paedatriatric Occupational therapist is required is required to provide Occupational Therapy for children and young people with significant disability and complex health needs aged 0 to 18 years. The team provides a service to Early Years children, mainstream schools and special schools to support children and young people who have significant functional difficulties in the areas of self-care skills, school occupations e.g. use of tools and equipment, mobility and posture, due to a complex, severe or enduring physical and or developmental condition which significantly affects ability to achieve potential in terms of activities of daily living.

As a Band 6 paediatric Occupational Therapist you will work in a range of settings:

* as an autonomous practitioner, providing high quality paediatric occupational therapy to support children and young people with disabilities to achieve their potential.

* You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to support children and young people’s occupational therapy needs and provide specialist advice to other disciplines.

* You will carry a specialist caseload of children and young people with a variety of complex physical, learning and social needs and be responsible for writing reports for EHCP and MDT assessments/reviews.

* As part of the role you will contribute to the supervision of students on clinical placement and support workers who are working with children and young people on your caseload.

Qualifications:

● Diploma/BSc/Graduate Diploma/MSc in Occupational Therapy.

● Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

● Additional short specialist courses relevant to your own clinical area and documented evidence of CPD (maintained portfolio). Skills and experience

● Experience of clinical assessment and intervention as an Occupational Therapist.

● Passionate about and/or have experience in working as an OT in paediatrics.

● Working knowledge of child development, neuro-development and childhood occupations.

● Able to plan and prioritise workload, demonstrate initiative through being consistently solution focused.

● Skilled in assessment planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, complying with professional and service standards and working as an autonomous practitioner.

● Able to prepare clearly written reports for use by multiple agencies.

● Knowledge, training and experience of a using range of therapeutic techniques and approaches, including non-standardised and standardised assessments.

● Knowledge/experience of physical and developmental disabilities and their impact on occupational performance.

● Experience and participate in clinical audits/research.

● Able to communicate sensitive, condition related information to clients using empathy and reassurance and able to reflect and critically appraise own performance.

● Able to provide and implement OT programmes within a specialist field and work collaboratively to upskill school staff and caregivers through training, sharing advice and strategies to support the child/young person.

● Supervision of students and / or support/junior staff