Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist
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Are you a passionate Children's Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic and forward-thinking Children's Therapies team, where no two days are the same and every interaction has the power to change a child’s future.
We are looking for 2 full-time Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapists on 12-month fixed-term contracts to join our friendly and supportive paediatric therapy team. This exciting opportunity is perfect for those wanting to seek to further develop specialist skills in working with children and young people across a variety of settings. To ensure that we have the right person for the role, we would also consider this as a Band 5 OT role with transferrable skills.
You will manage a defined caseload of children with a range of coordination difficulties, developmental and physical needs, delivering high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy assessments and interventions. The role includes working collaboratively with families, schools, and multidisciplinary teams to support children in achieving their full potential.
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Key Responsibilities
- To manage own specialist caseload.
- To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up-to-date records.
- To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of children with complex needs, with the aim of using education and advice to facilitate children/young people and carers to understand and actively participate in the management of the condition, leading to safe and timely discharges and transfer of care.
- Determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualized treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
- Take part in the education and training of Occupational Therapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare/social care/education staff including medical staff.
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About Us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top-performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive, collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Rebecca Peel
- Job title: Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address: rebecca.peel@cht.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07788898060
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