Description The Disabled Children and Therapy Service are seeking a passionate and skilled Occupational Therapist to join our dedicated Children's team. You will play a vital role in supporting children and young people with disabilities to achieve their full potential, promoting independence and improving their quality of life. The Service & Team: The Occupational Therapists sit within the West Disabled Children and Therapy team. This team is made up of social workers, disabled children and family workers, SCIP workers and portgage workers. The team works closely with colleagues across social care, education and the NHS. The OT team will work with children and young people from birth to 18 with a range of physical and learning disabilities. The Role: As an OT in the Disabled Children and Therapy team you will work collaboratively with families, carers and a wide multi-disciplinary team to assess need, plan intervention and provide expert advice on adaptations, equipment and moving and handling. You will hold a small caseload of children with a range of complex needs. Your intervention will focus on ensuring the safety, well being and engagement in daily activities of disabled children. You will carry out Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions across children's own homes, schools and short break settings. The role will include attending and leading meetings with other agencies such as health, education and housing. The role also involves offering formal clinical supervision to band 6 OTs as well as supporting and offering guidance to the rest of the west OT team. This role includes managing the OT waiting list, answering queries that come up from parents of children on the list and also allocating assessments to the other members of the team. This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies. This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: The post is for 19 hours per week. Ideally these hours should be worked over three days at the end of the week to provide team lead support for the rest of the west team. However this can be negotiated or discussed prior to interview. What you’ll need to succeed: A degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy with current HCPC registration is essential. We are looking for someone who has proven post-graduate experience of working with children and young people. A proven ability to supervise staff is essential. We would also like somebody who has experience of team lead duties who is able to effectively manage staff, delegate work and contribute to service development or somebody who feels ready to take this step and is able to evidence how they have worked towards this. You will need to have a sound knowledge around the legislation and practices in children's social care both at a national and a local level including safeguarding. You will need to have excellent communication and problem solving skills as well as having a commitment to a child centred approach. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you’ll get in return: Hiring managers – please use this section to give details on any benefits that are available e.g. Relocation Allowance, Welcome Payments, Training, etc Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: · a competitive salary. · a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions · a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. · A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme · Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Additional Information: Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role The full role profile is attached here We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact andrew.berrimancornwall.gov.uk Mob: 07483 351207 Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careerscornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.