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Job Introduction
Are you a motivated and compassionate Occupational Therapist looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful difference in children’s lives?
Join our Children’s Community Health Team at HCRG Care Group, where you’ll provide high-quality Occupational Therapy assessment, diagnosis, and intervention to children, empowering them and their families to achieve their full potential.
As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, you will play a vital role in a multidisciplinary team, supporting children with a range of developmental and performance challenges.
You’ll work in partnership with families, carers, and other professionals to enable self-management, independence, and well-being in children’s daily lives.
Base:
At HCRG Care Group, we are proud to be a flexible-first employer. Our agile working approach allows our teams to thrive in a supportive and adaptable environment while delivering high-quality care.
Main Responsibility
1. Assess and provide tailored advice and interventions for children with diverse needs.
2. Develop and implement individualised treatment plans in collaboration with families and carers.
3. Recommend and support the use of specialist equipment for home and school settings.
4. Liaise with professionals across health, education, social care, and voluntary sectors to ensure comprehensive care.
5. Provide sensitive and effective communication with children and their families, adapting to their needs and circumstances.
6. Contribute to team performance targets and participate in supervision, training, and team meetings.
7. Assist with prioritising treatment goals for children with complex needs or terminal illnesses, ensuring appropriate discharge planning and referrals.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
1. Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy.
2. Registered and compliant with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
3. Evidence of Post graduate training/or equivalent experience relevant to speciality such as:
4. Child Development, Specialist courses/study on conditions that affect child development, autistic spectrum disorder, ADHD, neurodevelopmental conditions.
5. Demonstrable post registration experience of working with children in a similar area of paediatric practice.
6. Experience of using a range of assessments and treatment methods.
Desirable
1. Member of BAOT.
2. Membership of Special Interest Group.
3. Clinical Educators qualification.
4. Working in a community setting delivering children’s Occupational Therapy services.
Other requirements:
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
Package Description
As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
1. Competitive Pay & Pension
2. Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
3. Exclusive Rewards
4. Wellbeing Support
5. Flexible Pay Options
6. Learning & Development
7. Recognition & Involvement
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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