Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Children’s Occupational Therapist
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Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 7 Enfield Children’s Services (Fern Special School) 0.5 WTE
We are seeking a creative, friendly, and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our established Children’s Therapy Team as a Highly Specialist Band 7 OT based at Fern Special School.
In this rewarding role, you will deliver occupational therapy to children and young people aged 5–16 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Autism. Alongside clinical work, you will contribute to service development, audits, and staff training, helping to shape and enhance the quality of care we provide.
Although primarily school-based, you will be part of a wider, supportive OT service that includes therapists working across schools and community settings (19 team members). We pride ourselves on being a dynamic and welcoming team with high staff satisfaction, offering clinical leadership, Monthly in-service training, High-quality supervision and access to a wide range of internal and external training opportunities.
We are looking for someone committed to occupation-focused, family-centred, and evidence-based practice.
Essential Requirements
- Qualified Occupational Therapist
- Experience working with children and/or in community, learning disabilities, autism, or SEMH settings
We are proud to be part of the Royal Free London North Mid NHS Trust, with excellent transport links to central London and Hertfordshire.
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The post holder will work as a highly specialist Band 7 Occupational Therapist within Fern Special School, providing occupational therapy input to children and young people aged 5–16 years with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Autism.
Fern School delivers a relational, inclusive, attachment-aware and trauma-informed approach to education. The OT role will be central in supporting pupils to access a sensory-informed, experiential curriculum adapted from the National Curriculum.
The Post Holder Will
- Take a lead role in establishing and developing the OT provision within the school
- Deliver targeted and specialist interventions aligned with EHCP outcomes
- Work collaboratively with teaching staff, SLT, and play therapy services to support functional participation and engagement
- Provide high-quality, child and family-centred, occupation-focused assessment and intervention, supporting pupils to maximise their participation in education and daily school life.
- Promote a whole-school approach to occupational performance
- Contribute to and lead on aspects of planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service within the school, including service development, clinical pathways, and quality improvement initiatives.
Allied Health Professions (AHPs) are the third largest workforce in the Trust and include dietitians, physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers, and speech and language therapists.
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AHPs can work autonomously, lead teams and have a critical contribution to make to children and adults and all patient journeys including end-of-life care. AHPs provide direct patient care, offer numerous rehabilitation approaches, operate sophisticated diagnostic, screening and treatment equipment and contribute to broader population health outcomes.
Many patients have complex needs and AHPs, whether working autonomously or in collaboration with other health and social care staff, have a positive impact on health outcomes and are essential to high quality, timely and accessible healthcare.
Our refreshed seven strategic ambitions for the next five years. They build on the work completed in 2020 and provide a framework to support us in achieving our vision to deliver outstanding diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation and promote the health of our local population in partnership with others.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lauren Braham
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: lauren.braham1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07483318348
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