Paediatric Occupational Therapist (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Occupational Therapy - Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust – Margate, Kent
The Children’s Therapies Team is an integrated therapies team providing Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Specialist Nurse Advisors, and Care Co-ordinators to children 0 – 19 years within KCHFT.
We have a Band 6 OT post on a full-time permanent basis within both our Early Years and School Years teams.
The successful applicant will join our Children’s Therapies East Kent Team based in Canterbury and Thanet and will be supported by Band 7 Clinical Leads within the East Kent team and others in our North and West Kent localities.
We currently offer a hybrid work pattern for staff with face-to-face sessions offered from clinics, nurseries, schools, and also sessions worked remotely from home.
We work closely with colleagues from other health, education, and social care teams to provide an integrated team around the child approach.
Responsibilities:
1. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate a range of OT interventions that support children with a range of needs to participate in occupations of childhood.
2. To develop integrated care plans in partnership with the child, young person, and/or family recommending and supporting interventions that are appropriate at a universal, targeted, and specialist level.
3. To actively work as a member of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to provide high-quality care to children and young people in line with our care pathways.
4. To manage a caseload of children on a daily basis that includes children and young people with complex needs.
5. To participate in clinical supervision and to work as part of an integrated team with Therapy Assistants, OTs, PTs, SLTs, Care Co-ordinators, and Specialist Nurse Advisors offering support to colleagues as appropriate to knowledge and skills.
6. To support and make recommendations to senior managers in order to prioritize and focus efforts to drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies, and statutory requirements.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive, Excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
As a flexible working-friendly organization, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.
The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you; their contact details can be found in the job advert.
Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
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