Children's Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our children's community team for a 12 month FTC to cover maternity leave in Barts Health NHS Trust in Tower Hamlets. You will be based in Mile End Hospital.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience working within the following areas:

Neurodevelopmental conditions; including CP, ASD, Learning Disability, and Neurodevelopmental Motor Disorders

Opportunity to support the child's participation goals in the home, school, nursery or other community settings.

Children's Occupational Therapy experience is not essential, but we are looking for an Occupational Therapist who has a solid understanding of the OT process.

Our well established and friendly team offer care that is contemporary, personalized, occupational performance driven, and outcome focused.

We offer regular supervision, training, and opportunities to deliver service improvement. Other benefits include career development, flexible working where appropriate to the setting., To provide client centered specialist Occupational Therapy advice and input to children and young people with developmental disabilities or other medical conditions affecting their occupational performance using the best available evidence base.

To provide advice and support for other professionals, educational staff, parents and carers involved in addressing the occupational performance issues of children with a range of needs in the community.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.