Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist

3 weeks ago

Basingstoke, United Kingdom Solent NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you passionate about unlocking the potential of children and young people and supporting their families in their homes, schools and community life?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an occupational therapist to join our innovative and friendly Childrens therapy service team in north Hampshire.

The Occupational Therapy service promotes participation and functional activity of children and young people with varying needs in home, nurseries, special school, mainstream school and clinic settings. We are committed to putting patient care first and we are looking for dedicated professionals who share our HEART values and our passion for delivering high quality care.

This is a full time post for hours per week.

If this sounds like the role for you then get in touch today

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing specialist, evidence-based and outcome focused assessment and intervention. You will also support in the delivery of targeted interventions to parents and education settings to enable them to support children with additional needs. The team has a strong emphasis on occupationally focused, family centred and evidence based care and you will have the opportunity to gain skills in approaches such as; cognitive orientation to occupational performance, modified constraint and occupational coaching, posture management.

A package of external training will be offered to the successful applicant. This package can be negotiated on what training the successful candidate has had previously but as an example it might include courses such as Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance (CO-OP), specific training around functional hand use and bimanual therapy, occupational performance coaching. This will also be dependent on course availability

This post will suit a candidates who has a degree in Occupational Therapy and holds a professional registration with the HCPC. Previous experience working with children and /or experience of community, learning disabilities or neurology in a qualified occupational therapy role is desirable as the majority of the clinical caseload is supporting children with co-ordination difficulties and physical disabilities.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by July 2024.Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on 1st July 2024. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level or higher in Occupational TherapyHealth and Care Professions Council registration

Desirable

Training required to teach students on placementRegistered member Royal College of Occupational Therapy

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with individuals with a range of disorders and/or delayExperience of engaging with clinical supervisionExperience of working in a changing environmentExperience of integrated working in multi-professional teamsTraining and presentation experience

Desirable

Experience of working with childrenExperience as a practice educator

Additional Criteria

Essential

Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Hampshire as required for the roleThis is a community post so the post holder is required to drive as part of their role. Therefore, they will need to hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.

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