Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 6, Community

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy Team. This role will require the successful candidate to provide a high quality, evidencebased service, which promote participation and physical skills of children and young people in home, school and family life., You will support community service provision, offering virtual advice and brain injury education, early supported discharge from inpatient neurorehabilitation at The Childrens Trust, outpatient packages and community rehabilitation in the Southeast (restricted postcode locations), ensuring high quality, evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions to children and young people with acquired brain injury and neurodisability.

Our service delivery aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe care, function and participation of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life. You will support children and young people with functional activity within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting.

With experience of working in a complex environment, across a large and diverse workforce, you will be exceptionally organised with a high-level of attention to detail. You will naturally possess excellent inter-personal skills, and an ability to consult and positively engage with key stakeholders across the organisation.

The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.