Highly Specialist Paediatric Sensory Integration Practitioner

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 May 2025

Job summary

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for two dedicated Paediatric Sensory Integration Practitioners (Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Speech and Language Therapist) to work as part of the AHP team within the Family Care Division at Bolton Foundation NHS Trust .

We are looking for experienced, motivated therapists who work well in a team and with excellent communication skills to undertake this highly specialist role, setting up a new service within the Division.

The successful applicants will work as a key members of the Therapy Team and receive access to the Trust's Our Leaders programme, supervision, appraisal and peer support.

You will be working in community settings in the Sensory Integration Therapy Team providing training, advice and assessments for children and young people with sensory processing difficulties.

We welcome applications from experienced band 6 sensory integration practitioners looking to progress your career in a training capacity towards a band 7 role, or existing band 7s wanting to focus their clinical experience in this area and develop a new service.

We kindly request that previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

To triage the paediatric sensory integration referrals to ensure clients receive appropriate, timely intervention.
To be professionally and legally accountable for own complex caseload. To organise, plan and evaluate interventions to meet client and service priorities and to adjust these in line with available and changing resources.
To undertake highly specialist therapy assessments for clients within clinical area. To use a variety of assessment methods both standardised and non-standardised, and advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge for high quality clinical outcome.
To assess risks, make recommendations and document to ensure risks are reduced as far as possible within the client's daily activities and associated environments.
To work with clients and /or carers to identify client-centred goals in order to formulate and recommend interventions whilst being sensitive to complex and distressing diagnosis/prognosis and the resulting impact this has on the individual.
To monitor and evaluate interventions in order to measure progress and when necessary modify to allow for changes due to complexities and improvements with interventions. Use outcome measures where appropriate.
To provide highly specialist advice and training to clients and/or carers with complex needs to promote health and well-being in terms of sensory, physical, psychosocial and/or functional skills i.e. all treatment modalities applicable to that clinical area.

About us

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and are guided by our trust values.

We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity and children's services, with new central delivery suite, special care, neonatal intensive care and children's unit. This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit staff who share the organisation's values and beliefs.

Bolton Foundation Trust aims to ensure the wellbeing and development of all our staff team and are committed to the continuous improvement of staff engagement initiatives.

Bolton itself is a culturally diverse university town within easy motorway access of Manchester and surrounding areas.

Date posted

22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa pro rata (Dependant on exp: Band 7 or Band 6 progressing to 7)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

241-130FC-25-C

Job locations

Breightmet Health Centre

Breightmet Fold Lane

Bolton

BL2 6NT

Job description

Job responsibilities

For detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the job description and person specification. For any other enquiries please see contact details below,

Job description

Job responsibilities

For detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the job description and person specification. For any other enquiries please see contact details below,

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or Speech and Language Therapy
Registered with HCPC
Accredited Sensory Integration Practitioner (PG Cert)
Membership of Professional Body
Evidence of professional development relevant to clinical field
Clinical educators course

Desirable

Other recognised post-graduate qualifications applicable to role
Membership of specialist interest group
PGDip in Sensory Integration
Short courses at masters level or equivalent
Management and leadership skills training

Experience

Essential

Significant clinical experience as a registered OT/PT/SALT and paediatric SI practitioner
Experience of managing a caseload of clients with complex needs and challenging behaviour
Experience of supervision of staff and students
Experience of clinical audit and service evaluation
Experience of organising and implementing training programmes

Desirable

Leadership epxerience
Experience of managing change
Experience of managing staff

Special Requirements

Essential

Ability to travel independently around the community to fulfil the needs of the role
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or Speech and Language Therapy
Registered with HCPC
Accredited Sensory Integration Practitioner (PG Cert)
Membership of Professional Body
Evidence of professional development relevant to clinical field
Clinical educators course

Desirable

Other recognised post-graduate qualifications applicable to role
Membership of specialist interest group
PGDip in Sensory Integration
Short courses at masters level or equivalent
Management and leadership skills training

Experience

Essential

Significant clinical experience as a registered OT/PT/SALT and paediatric SI practitioner
Experience of managing a caseload of clients with complex needs and challenging behaviour
Experience of supervision of staff and students
Experience of clinical audit and service evaluation
Experience of organising and implementing training programmes

Desirable

Leadership epxerience
Experience of managing change
Experience of managing staff

Special Requirements

Essential

Ability to travel independently around the community to fulfil the needs of the role
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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