Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - FEM Service

Job summary

A new and exciting job opportunity has arisen within our well-respected and integrated therapy team at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. We are recruiting a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist as part of the Foetal Exposure to Medications (FEM) Service.The part-time lead occupational therapist is a core member of this new highly specialist multidisciplinary outpatient team.

This 18-month pilot project will establish a first-of-its-kind service providing specialist diagnosis, care planning, and advice for those adversely affected byfoetal exposure syndromes.

We are therefore looking for a highly motivated therapist with occupation-focused expertise and experience working with patients who have sensory, social, physical and cognitive difficulties such as Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder (FVSD), Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

You will support the children, young people, and adults impacted by foetal exposure syndromes alongside their families as they access diagnosis and service provision. Therefore, understanding of the issues relating to the identification, assessment, treatment, and management of this client group is required.

Using advanced communication skills, you will participate in MDT clinics with assessment of clients in accordance with clinical networks, contribute to regular MDT meetings and deliver educational professional knowledge to local teams.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced senior clinician, you have recent and substantial experience working directly with children and young people/adults with physical and developmental disabilities including intellectual disability and/or difficulties with language, memory, learning and behaviour.Ideally a post-graduate qualification in sensory integration or working towards one would be an advantage. Previous experience of using patient experience measures, standardised outcome measures, developing education / training programmes and patient and parent literature/leaflets is also desirable.

As some of the affected young people/adults may have anxiety and/or depression previous experience of using a psychosocial approach would be beneficial.

You will be experienced working as part of an MDT team and referring appropriately to other health professionals; providing one-off interventional support with school to support participation and learning through enabling adjustments.

You will liaise collaboratively with community and education colleagues across the region about ongoing management of children and young people and advising families sensitively about the needs of their child and local provision.

The postholder will be based within the well-resourced, multi-disciplinary Children's Therapy and Dietetic department .

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.