To provide support and assistance as a Children’s Occupational Therapist working with children in Wiltshire aged 0-19. As part of the Children’s Integrated Therapy team, you will autonomously manage a complex caseload of children with a range of varied and complex needs. This will involve specialist assessment, treatment, and management of children with complex needs. You will work in various community localities including clinic settings, nurseries, schools, and clients’ homes across Wiltshire. You will help assess and treat your own caseload of patients and maintain your own records as an autonomous practitioner, provide clinical and peer supervision, and contribute to the overall service delivery model and team advancement.
Package Description: As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at our service in Trowbridge.
You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
1. £37,338 - £44,962 Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
2. Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
3. Plentiful on-site parking
4. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers
5. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies
6. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing
7. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development
8. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose
Main Responsibilities:
Patient/client care:
1. You will complete comprehensive assessments of needs for the children.
2. Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and ensure understanding of conditions.
3. Be able to effectively communicate with children, young people, families, and other professionals to agree on joint goals for therapy.
Operational and Administrative Responsibilities:
1. Be responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients in your care.
2. You will accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and organise this efficiently and effectively.
3. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support junior staff to do likewise.
Financial and Physical Resources:
1. Be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available in the department.
2. Arrange and attend a variety of appointments and equipment, including treatment sessions.
The Ideal Candidate:
1. Degree/diploma equivalent
2. HPCP registration
3. 2 years Post grad Occupational Therapy experience
4. Work experience with children in the wider setting
5. Broad knowledge of current best practice
6. Competent to use standardised assessments and outcome measures
7. Able to act independently and on own initiative but recognise limitations
8. Strong problem-solving/analytical skills
9. Articulate and good communication skills
10. Self-directed in learning and commitment to CPD
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. We deliver and transform adult and children's community health services, primary care services, and adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities and directly help more than half a million people each year.
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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance. 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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