Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your occupational therapy career in Paediatrics?

Come and work for Children' Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service in the beautiful surroundings of East Sussex.

We are a highly successful integrated therapy service with a pooled budget across health and social care since 2013. Although based in East Sussex, we are employed by KCHFT which is an outstanding trust.

We are an assessment and advice service as well as providing interventions to children and young people using evidence-based approaches including Sensory Integrative informed practice in line with RCOT, trauma-informed care, CognitiveOrientation to Occupational Performance, Neurodevelopmental approach and with a focus on enabling.

We are currently seeking an Occupational Therapist with minimum of 4- years post qualification experience in paediatrics with an interest in neurodevelopmental conditions.

This post is for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist in the neighbourhood team which includes children or young people from0-19 years across early years settings, mainstream schools and in the community.

The post-holder will work closely with the Therapy One Point team of therapists and as part of an integrated therapy team including Speech and LanguageTherapist, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists including Adaptation specialists and Integrated Therapy Assistants.

Main duties of the job

To work within an integrated children's therapy team including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and therapyassistants for children aged 0-19.

o To provide a highly specialist lead role in Paediatric OT and to lead on policy development across East SussexChildren's Integrated Therapy Service (ESCITS).o To be responsible for managing a complex and specialist clinical caseload and to act as a specialist resource to theLocality team and other professionals and agencies.o To be responsible for the management supervision and clinical supervision of identified staff within the team incollaboration with the Professional Leads and /or Locality Clinical Managers.o To be responsible for ensuring the team provides a high quality and cost effective clinical service to disabled children/young people and their families in collaboration with the Professional Leads and Locality Clinical Managers.o To be responsible for ensuring that all team members are working to agreed care pathway(s).o To report to and advise the Professional Leads and/or Locality Clinical Manager of the teams' development within aspecialist clinical area to
ensure it is in line with the organisation's business objectives.

About us

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

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As a flexible working friendly organisation, 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 suits us both