Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham, ENG Contractor
POSTED ON 9/13/2024 CLOSED ON 10/11/2024

Job Posting for Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to be able to offer a committed and experienced clinician the opportunity to join our children’s community service. This is a community post, across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions. We would like to recruit an individual who has a keen interest in working with children and families within the community and as part of a multi agency team.

The work will primarily involve a combination of clinic based assessments delivering intervention in the form of prescribed Packages of Care.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the OT service alongside colleagues and the Professional Lead for Paediatric OT. You will also have responsibility for supervision of designated staff.

We work across the whole City, within a range of community/educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.

We value our OTs within the team and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our OTs to contribute to service development, and we value new ideas and experiences.

We offer a supportive working environment with access to specialist clinical support, and an emphasis on sharing good practice through effective team working.

Access to reliable transport or means of travel is essential. The post-holder may be required to transport items of therapy equipment on a regular basis.

To be responsible for the assessment and on-going therapeutic management of children in a designated community area/ clinic. The post holder will competently assess and deliver OT programmes to children in the service without the need for direct supervision and will be accountable for their own clinical work as well as to their nominated supervisor.

To provide Occupational Therapy intervention at a specialist level to schools, functioning as an integral member of multi-professional team to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention of children and young people according to agreed contracts

They will act as a source of clinical expertise/advice and guidance for families, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team, including health, education and social care staff.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carmel Kelly Job title: SCM Occupational Therapy Email address: carmelkelly@nhs.net Telephone number: 07967471358

Jenny Gregory

Professional Lead Occupational Therapy- Children and Families Division

Mobile: 07753276165

Email: Jenny.gregory@nhs.net

Children and Families

Paediatric Occupational Therapy

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