Senior Occupational Therapist - Metabolic Bone Team

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 May 2025

Job summary

Are you the right Occupational Therapist to join our metabolic bone disease team?

Do you have experience of working with children with a wide range of occupational participation and performance issues?

Can you take on the challenge of bringing skills from your work in paediatrics into a new clinical specialty if we provide you with the teaching about the conditions?

Can you help a student Occupational Therapist to see where the model or theory in their textbook fits into a session supporting a young person planning their transition to high school?

Would you like to be part of a team that works hard to give the best care to their patients and is supported to do that by having access to training and supervision?

At Birmingham Children's Hospital we are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist who wants to join our friendly and motivated team in a static role within our metabolic bone disease team. If you can answer 'yes' to our questions above, you sound like the kind of Occupational Therapist we would like to meet.

This role offers flexibility in how and where you work. There are opportunities to work in the hospital, from home and out in the community, so if you like a work diary with variety of activities in, this could be the job for you.

Main duties of the job

The post is suitable for an Occupational Therapist with broad post-graduate experience working with children or young people in a hospital or community setting. This post provides an excellent opportunity to consolidate existing skills and expand your learning in a highly specialist area with the support of a friendly MDT.

We are looking for therapists who have strong skills in assessing needs, goal setting, intervention planning and delivery. Supported in your team by an Advanced Occupational Therapist, you will work closely with our own MDT and the community teams supporting patients. This is a highly specialised service, and we support those working in it to participate in networking with the other specialist centres. We are always looking for ways to improve the quality of our services through audit and quality improvement.

It is important in our Occupational Therapy team that people are able to achieve occupational balance, so we support flexible working, job shares and are happy to make reasonable adjustments to peoples work in order to promote their health and wellbeing as the service requirements allow.

We will also consider recruiting to a Band 5 position based on the level of experience of the right candidate.

For more information, please contact Kiran Basraka, Advanced Occupational Therapist by email k.basraka@nhs.net

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Date posted

11 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

284-25-7122266-DMUT

Job locations

Therapy Department, Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Dip COT/ BSc OT
HCPC Registration
Relevant short specialist courses
Previous experience working as an Occupational Therapist in Paediatrics
Experience of assessment & intervention planning
Ability to use initiative and work independently
Experience of working in MDT
Able to use a computer for routine tasks using Microsoft Office programmes and electronic healthcare systems

Desirable

Specialist courses in paediatrics
Fieldwork Educators certificate
Previous experience of working with young people in hospital

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Dip COT/ BSc OT
HCPC Registration
Relevant short specialist courses
Previous experience working as an Occupational Therapist in Paediatrics
Experience of assessment & intervention planning
Ability to use initiative and work independently
Experience of working in MDT
Able to use a computer for routine tasks using Microsoft Office programmes and electronic healthcare systems

Desirable

Specialist courses in paediatrics
Fieldwork Educators certificate
Previous experience of working with young people in hospital

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).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).