Specialist Children’s Occupational Therapist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Ebrill 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mai 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Cwmni: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7087430/391-NMUH-7087430 |
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Fixed term 7 Months Band 6
Children’s Occupational Therapy Job in Enfield
Come and work with a great team!!
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wishes to develop specialist Band 6 skills in Paediatrics within a supportive team. We are looking for a creative, friendly and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our established Children’s Therapy Team in Enfield.
We are now part of the Royal Free Hospital , Royal Free London North Mid .We are committed to working as an integrated team, within health, education and social care. You will sit within a dynamic multi professional team comprised of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Specialist Nurses and Speech and Language Therapy. The team is based at Cedar House, St Michaels Site near Enfield Town, with easy commuter links from central London and Hertfordshire.
Your job will be to provide specialised Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to children with varying needs in community settings, special schools, clinic and the CDC. As part of this role you will be expected to participate in service development activities, regular audits and staff training.
Enfield Children team is committed to evidence based practice; as such you will have the opportunity to gain skills in CO-OP, M-CIMT and Occupational Coaching.
For an informal chat or to arrange a visit pleasecontact: Fiona Kingsley 0204 553 7704
Fiona.kingsley1@nhs.net
We look forward to hearing from you.
To provide a high standard Occupational Therapy service to children aged 0-18years referred to Enfield’s Children’s Occupational Therapy Department.
To contribute to planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service. To contribute to service improvements and Quality initiatives within the team.
To be responsible for a defined caseload of children both within the community and special school, working autonomously with access to supervision. Advice and support from colleagues is available as required.
To provide family centred, occupationally focused assessment and intervention to disabled children and children with additional needs. To work within the available evidence based and good practice guidelines.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
To assist in the supervision and training of students and junior staff as required.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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1. To provide assessment and interventions for children with OT needs and to provide expert advice, guidance and information to families, carers, schools and other professionals.
2. To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of children, and organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To assist more junior staff in this.
3. To participate in multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
4. To select and apply appropriate Occupational Therapy assessments for children, addressing occupationalperformance and enabling the child in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
5. To set occupationally focused intervention goals with children and/or their parents/carers that are family centred and agreed by the child and/or their parents/carers.
6. To work within an occupational frame of reference.
7. To demonstrate the ability to analyse the interplay of the child, environment and activity when assessing the child’s level of functioning and identifying appropriate strategies and intervention to facilitate and enhance participation in self-care, school and play/leisure.
8. To demonstrate specialist knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options using current research, and clinical reasoning skills.
9. To plan and implementindividual and /or group interventions, in collaboration with the child/carer.
10. To provide advice and training to carers and schools in order to facilitate the child’s participation levels through adaptations to the social and physical environment.
11. To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions through the use of appropriate outcome measures, to ensure effectiveness of intervention.
This advert closes on Wednesday 7 May 2025