Occupational Therapist

JOB SUMMARY The BHFT CYPIT service is an integrated Childrens Therapy service, shaped around the needs of the child and family. We are structured within integrated teams, based around a locality area of Berkshire, and work closely together where appropriate, to ensure we have the greatest therapeutic impact, working either directly or through other people. Working across our early years and school aged phases of life provision you will be responsible for the planning and management of your own caseload and interventions working within our impact based model of support. As part of this you will be supported to develop and enhance your specialist skills working with children and young people (CYP) with occupational therapy needs. As a Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist, you will also have line management and supervision responsibilities for junior staff members and opportunities to support student training. You will be expected to actively contribute to our integrated model of
service delivery and the development of our integrated working inclusive of our triage service. RESPONSIBILITIES The following sets out key responsibilities: To function as a specialist autonomous clinician and provide specialist clinical care including assessment, diagnosis, care planning and treatment for a mixed community caseload and our Triage service. Contribute to the development of and take responsibility for supporting the Children Young Peoples Integrated Therapy (CYPIT) service as well as the development of the Children, Families and All Age (CFAA) service. To provide high quality assessment and interventions for children and young people with developmental and/or complex needs using evidence based/person-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To provide specialist therapy input into clinical services within a designated area/team, contributing to defined projects as requested. To ensure the use of our impact based approach to clinical
decision making within our service. To support and develop junior staff through direct line management responsibility, mentoring support, provision of training etc. in line with your current skills and abilities. To understand and support the Special Education Needs & Disability (SEND) agenda working in close partnership with key stakeholders. The post holder will have a responsibility to contribute to CPD, clinical audit, research and in-service training within the specialist area, and may be asked to initiate and lead on some areas of service development.