Senior Occupational Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust

There is an exciting opportunity to join the dynamic Barts Health NHS Trust Children's Therapy Service. We have a vacancy for aCommunity Children'sBand 7 Occupational Therapist to cover a fixed term maternity cover post for 12 months. Based at Mile End Hospital in East London, we are afriendly, innovative and well-established team of therapy staff.

This post would suit you if you are interested in working closely with children, parents, teaching staff and other multi-disciplinary team members to develop interventions and strategies that can minimize the impact of disability on a child's school and home life. Our service vision is to provide care for children and families that is personalized, occupation performance driven and outcomes focused. We base our intervention on current evidence and contemporary theory.

We offer excellent and regular supervision and training, opportunities to develop service improvement and leadership skills and promote good links with other agencies. The Trust supports agile and flexible working arrangements.

This post will provide an opportunity to work with range of different developmental disabilities including Physical disabilities, Autism, Learning Disability, Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder in Schools and homes .

If you would like further information on this post please feel free to contact Clinical Leads Suzy Laird or Frances Badenhorst and talk through any questions you may have ).

Provide a highly specialist and evidence-based Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist caseload of children with complex health and physical needs attending a designated special and mainstream schools. To assist in the provision of day to day management of junior therapists and Therapy Assistants. To educate and train occupational therapy colleagues, other healthcare professionals, educational staff and undergraduate students regarding this case mix. To provide clinical leadership and expertise to the team in risk assessments and take the lead for managing risk.

To undertake service developments, leading on key areas with the support of the Clinical lead therapist

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.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.