Senior Children's Specialist OT

An opportunity has arisen to recruit a full-time Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and supportive, multi-disciplinary team.

The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Children's Therapy Team offers evidenced based interventions for children and young people from birth to 19 with additional needs impacting on their development or ability to engage in childhood occupations. We provide input into a range of health, community, and educational settings. We also offer assessments into diagnostic pathways associated with autism and developmental coordination disorder. Our team provides services into the local special educational needs support service and short,based breaks teams and the successful applicant will also have the opportunity to work into Wakefield Short Based breaks service one day a week.

We are keen to develop the service to provide the best experience of Children's Occupational Therapy.

The team has a base at Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals and cross site working will be required.

Ideally you would have experience in neurodevelopmental treatment approaches and have worked as an Occupational Therapist with children with both physical and sensory processing needs.

The role involves supervision and mentorship of junior colleagues with opportunity to be involved in the development of our service. The successful applicant will be required to have access to a vehicle to support work into the community

Main duties of the job

You will deliver a specialised Occupational Therapy service within the Children's Therapy Service utilising in-depth theoretical and technical skills.

You will manage a caseload of children with complex needs using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to minimise disability and maximise independence. .

You will provide leadership, supervision, and appraisal for junior staff and students.

You will participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Children's OT Services , holding responsibility for defined projects

You will work within a job plan.

We provide care and support to children and young people with occupational therapy needs in the Wakefield and Pontefract area. in their homes, educational and community settings and across our hospital sites.

We offer standardised and observational assessments. to support evidence based care

We invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and the best place to receive care.

We have a clear vision, and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives children, young people ando their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.