We are in search of a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Children's Community Therapy team. *** will consider band 5 developmental band 6***
As a Band 6 Children’s Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for providing a specialist and comprehensive Occupational Therapy service for children 0-18 years and their families, who have a Herefordshire GP.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Planning and management of your own caseload and interventions, providing specialist assessment and treatment, and referring children to other specialist services as needed.
2. Conducting interventions in the most relevant environment for the child and their family – the home environment, therapy suite, or schools.
3. Working as an autonomous practitioner in the community, planning and organizing your own caseload according to the needs of the children and the service.
4. Using evidence-based standardised and non-standardised assessment tools with children, including observations in the most appropriate settings, to establish levels of functional ability and disability.
5. Agreeing on child-focused aims, goals, and objectives for all OT interventions.
6. Designing individual therapeutic treatment plans for children to be carried out either by you or delegated to Occupational Therapy support workers, families, carers, or school staff.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward-looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
For more information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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