Paediatric Occupational Therapist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum Plus HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Romford, RM7 9NH |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6285607/395-HV605-24 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with the Havering Integrated Children's Services Occupational Therapy Team. Occupational Therapy provision is provided over a variety of settings i.e. clinic, home, nurseries and schools to children with a variety of complex conditions.
If you are passionate about working with Children and have an interest in empowering children and families, we look forward to hearing from you.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
Havering Integrated Children's Services is comprised of Paediatrician, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and CAMHS. We have a strong focus on integrated working across health, education and social care.
Close proximity to local train station and office base is on local bus route for ease of travel.
• Develop and implement an individualised intervention programme in conjunction with the child and family/carers referred to the service.
•To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload.
• Provide high quality Occupational Therapy clinical expertise and service.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care ensuring the service provided is needs led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users.
• Responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate Occupational Therapy treatments for specialist case load, in a variety of settings, as an autonomous practitioner.
• Provide clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods where appropriate
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please refer to the Job specification attached for more details, regarding this vacancy.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024