Employer: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Moor Lane Mills
Town: Lancaster
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/03/2025 23:59
Children's Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
"Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work"
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce and therefore welcomes and encourages applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our community team covering children and young people aged 0-19 in the Lancaster and Morecambe Area. This is a fantastic opportunity to help children/young people unlock their potential by implementing an occupation and outcome-focused service.
Our service offers a tiered approach and focuses on participation in child/young person’s meaningful occupations within the home, school, nursery, and other community settings.
We offer regular supervision, training, and opportunities to develop core occupational therapy skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
The Main Duties of the job include:
1. Providing child/young person-centred goal setting, assessment and intervention within goal-based episodes of care.
2. Being responsible for a caseload of children with a variety of ages and potential conditions impacting their occupational performance including cerebral palsy and developmental co-ordination disorder.
3. Working within a well-established and friendly team and being part of service development based on up-to-date guidelines and best current evidence.
4. Providing universal and targeted support to stakeholders including schools and children’s centres to promote meaningful occupational participation.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals: Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre that can help with a range of non-life-threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for an enthusiastic band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our community team covering children and young people aged 0-19 in the Lancaster and Morecambe Area. This is a fantastic opportunity to help children/young people unlock their potential by implementing an occupation and outcome-focused service.
Our service offers a tiered approach and focuses on participation in child/young person’s meaningful occupations within the home, school, nursery, and other community settings.
The Main Duties of the job include:
1. Providing child/young person-centred goal setting, assessment and intervention within goal-based episodes of care.
2. Being responsible for a caseload of children with a variety of ages and potential conditions impacting their occupational performance including cerebral palsy and developmental co-ordination disorder.
3. Working within a well-established and friendly team and being part of service development based on up-to-date guidelines and best current evidence.
4. Providing universal and targeted support to stakeholders including schools and children’s centres to promote meaningful occupational participation.
We offer regular supervision, training, and opportunities to develop core occupational therapy skills and knowledge.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HPCP registered
* Member of RCOT
Experience
* Core competencies within OT
* OT practice placement experience or post-registration experience in a children and young people’s community team as an occupational therapist, achieving knowledge and skills applicable to this post.
* Experience of working with children and young people in other settings.
Skills
* Assessment, observation, evaluation, and reporting skills.
* Basic computer skills e.g., word processing, email, and internet skills.
* Knowledge and understanding the role of a children and young people’s occupational therapist.
* Knowledge regarding Model of Human Occupational Therapy (MOHO).
PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.
The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities wherever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.
The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formerly CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and an additional £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.
Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.
We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us at UHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new role including: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid, etc. To access click on this link: Pre-Onboarding.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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