Job summary
We are looking for a permanent Band 6 Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children's Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest.
You will join our award winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we are trail blazing a new integrated partnership model with Barnardos; a model that drives efficiencies so we can put more people in our services, spending time with children and families to improve health outcomes in the local community.
As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for a caseload of children in the Harlow area, working at universal, targeted and specialist levels. You'll work closely with our team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, within a diverse multidisciplinary team with other dedicated staff as part of our innovative Child and Family Wellbeing Service. You will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues and access regular supervision with a Band 7 Occupational Therapist.
Main duties of the job
- Manage and prioritise your own caseload independently.
- Assess children with performance difficulties and provide tailored self-management advice.
- Recommend and arrange specialist equipment for home and school use.
- Support the Team Lead and Therapies Manager in achieving service targets.
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and governance procedures.
- Take part in supervision, training, and team meetings.
- Assess, diagnose, and develop treatment plans in collaboration with patients and carers.
- Write assessment reports and select appropriate therapeutic interventions.
- Deliver and evaluate treatment to ensure effective outcomes.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
About us
As a Children's Occupational Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Details
Date posted
07 April 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
HCRGCG/TP/171506/18907
Job locations
HCRG Care Group
Harlow
Essex
CM18 7NG
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Harlow
Essex
CM18 7NG
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
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