Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Highly Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist, Band 7 Permanent Full Time: 37.50 hours per week

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist to work with a supportive, therapy team at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking a highly motivated, Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic team to provide a service to children in special schools in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

You will need excellent standards of time management, team working and highly developed interpersonal skills. The post holder will need to demonstrate flexibility in their approach.

This post will be a Team Lead for the Special Schools OTs, who work as part of the colocated, wider Integrated Therapy Special Schools Team.This will involve providing assessment and treatment to children attending special schools, including coordinating the provision quantified on EHCPs and managing complex specialist equipment. You will work in clinic, homes, and school settings across the borough.

We are a very proactive and supportive team, and we benefit from being able to deliver an onsite therapy service with office bases in our schools. You will receive regular supervision and participate in monthly in-service training opportunities and any external training as appropriate. We are a research active clinical team, and you will be supporting and supervisestaff and students across health and education.

Main duties of the job

Key Task and Responsibilities

To perform a Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy role in the community, with children who have complex difficulties with Occupational Performance due to physical, sensory, perceptual or developmental disability.

To assess the functional needs of patients in order to develop and implement Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy treatment and intervention.

To independently manage a defined caseload of complex cases with evidence of an excellent level of problem solving, reasoning skills and judgement.

To write detailed reports and programmes reflecting extensive specialist knowledge. This will include writing NA2 reports to contribute to EHCPs and may include tribunal reports.

To ensure that patients and carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible.

To monitor, evaluate and modify intervention using evidence based practice and outcome measures, to ensure the effectiveness of case management.

To take account and act according to individual patient circumstance, giving due regard to cultural differences and diversity.

To liaise and negotiate with others, for example, Health Consultants, social workers, teachers, Education staff, G.P.s, as appropriate to facilitate effective case management.

To demonstrate thorough knowledge and skills in dealing with complex and highly complex case management, using client centred principles and generation of strategies for effective caseload management.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Goldie Leigh

Lodge Hill

Abbey Wood, Greenwich Borough

SE20AY

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Goldie Leigh

Lodge Hill

Abbey Wood, Greenwich Borough

SE20AY

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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