Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Children's Specialist Occupational Therapist
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Job Overview
Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 300 Occupational Therapists (OTs) in Central North West London (CNWL) Trust. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.
Ealing Paediatric OT are looking for motivated, flexible and innovative therapists to work with children and young people in Ealing. We are a friendly, dynamic and diverse team who are passionate about supporting children, young people and families in Ealing. We work with a diverse population group across health, education and social care. At the moment we are based at Armstrong Way. We are part of a high level integrated and collaborated partnership between health, education and social care services.
The service is open to all children and young people aged 0-18 with a range of needs. We work along with our therapy colleagues and other agency partners to deliver a service which supports and promotes the health and development of children and young people who are experiencing barriers to participation everyday occupations. These children and young may experience barriers due to physical disability, social communication challenges or other specific developmental differences. Pathways within the service ensure that Multidisciplinary working is integral in the role and provides a whole systems approach for these families, supporting them to tell their story just once
Main duties of the job
- Within your clinical role you will demonstrate confidence and competence in delivering assessment and therapy in mainstream school, special schools and clinic settings and the ability to provide comprehensive written clinical reasoning in all documentation.
- To demonstrate working autonomously with an understanding of safe lone working is essential as you will be working across various settings, from schools, homes, nurseries and clinics, often on your own.
- You will have a strong enthusiasm for working with children and young people and comprehensive knowledge of statutory assessment for Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) and SEND guidance and how this applies to clinical work.
- You will be able to develop your leadership skills with the responsibility of day-to-day operational management of junior staff and monitoring the quality of care given. The post holder will be expected to pro-actively contribute to areas of service development.
Working for our organisation
CNWL OT have a long-established professional structure, and this includes an AHP director, Trust wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs. This huge benefit ensures representation of our profession at all levels - both strategically and operationally.
Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R&D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and evidence-based practice is made possible by our strong links with local universities.
The team has been successful in getting funding from different agencies and has a team of more than 20 staff. We have a strong professional structure with Clinical Leads (Band 8a) and Advanced Therapists (Band 7), each leading on different aspects of service delivery. There are also Band 6 & 5 Therapists and Band 3 Technicians. We have regular in-house and external CPD opportunities and a strong supervision structure.
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We recognise that Band 6’s are the backbone teams, supporting with leadership and managerial tasks within clinical teams and we will therefore support their development both clinically and managerially.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Exciting opportunities have arisen for enthusiastic and highly committed individuals to work within this unique and vibrant OT team. Other than working closely together, we also have fun and bond through the many team social activities!
This is a fixed-term appointment for the period of 24 month post. Completion of the contract does not, by itself, guarantee renewal or further or permanent employment.
This post will involve working in a mixture of clinics, mainstream and specials schools. Our service is keen to focus on evidence-based family-centred care principles and applying best practice guidelines to enable occupational participation. We are open to new ideas and constantly reviewing and modifying the way we work.
In this role as a member of the Children’s Integrated Therapies Service, you will be expected to be a competent OT who is able to autonomously deliver evidence-based therapy to children and young people through full age ranges and across a variety of needs.
You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to work collaboratively with children, young people and their families will support their development and facilitate them in achieving their aspirations. This will include being part of an immediate Occupational Therapy team and working with a broad multidisciplinary team and other partner agencies - forming part of network of support around the child and their family.
You will be expected to work autonomously across the community settings, working jointly with our partner services of Education and Social Care. Throughout your working you are required to always maintain safeguarding of children and young people.
Your leaderships skills will enable you to engage in development and support of the team, through supervision, training and guidance to team and contribute to development of the service.
We are looking for team players who have a range of clinical experiences. Candidates will need to have good communication skills and any experience in working within an inter-disciplinary team and interagency collaboration will be an advantage. Regular supervision and support will be provided by Band 7. Are you the people we are looking for?
This role is an Ealing Community Partners role through CNWL Trust. Please note that the post does not meet the application criteria for the trust's Golden Hello and Relocation package.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Recognised Occupational Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
- Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of continuous professional development (e.g. attendance of journal clubs, conferences, professional specialist interest activities) in the field of OT.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in OT.
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist training courses e.g. School AMPS, CO-OP, OPC, Sensory Integration etc.
- Registered member with relevant professional bodies e.g. RCOT, RCOT CYPFSS etc.
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Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group.
- Good knowledge of range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to client group)
- Good knowledge of the principles of clinical governance including patient safety, quality, clinical audit and patient experience
- Good knowledge of the roles of other professionals across agencies
- Awareness of Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Broad and deep knowledge of a range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group.
- Knowledge of typical child development and its application in OT assessment and intervention
- Display understanding and use of evidence-based practice e.g. application of current research, reflection of practice.
- Experience in working with a multidisciplinary team and/or also working across different settings and agencies, e.g. acute, community, education, social services.
- Basic knowledge of relevant legislation or policies related to working with children, young people and families.
- Basic level of knowledge and experience in service development and clinical governance e.g. audits.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using Systmone as the electronic record
- Evidence of reflective clinical practise such as audits and CPD
- Experience working within schools’ settings and SEND services.
- Working/clinical experience within paediatric OT.
- Other Band 6 work experience within a related field.
- Knowledge and experience in the Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
- Experience completing OT assessments and EHCP-related reports
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive experience and practice in Paediatric Occupational Therapy
- Experience in working as part of a team.
- Experience of delivering training packages to patients, parents and carers and other professionals
- Relevant specialist area experience post registration
- Knowledge of (childrens) occupational therapy equipment and resources
- Experience of working in community settings and autonomously as a lone practitioner
- Experience of supervising students / more junior members of staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service developments/project
- Ability to supervise and teach junior staff, Occupational Therapy Students / Technicians / Assistants.
Apptitudes, Attitudes and Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Evidence of being a pro-active and supportive team member.
- Good analytical and reflection skills.
- Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Embodies fairness, openness, honesty and kindness in all work engagement
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with professionals, children / young people and their families
- Be flexible and adaptive in a changing environment.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to supervise and teach junior staff, Occupational Therapy Students / Technicians / Assistants.
- Ability to facilitate group intervention/ training.
- Ability to work under pressure and independently.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidiscilinary team.
Other
Essential criteria
- IT literacy across multiple platforms
Desirable criteria
- Ability to travel independently from base to other settings in the community by using own car or public transport.
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