Band 5 Paediatric Occupational Therapist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B21 9RY |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7228925/820-7170387-CF-B |
Summary
***Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may be closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible***
Are you a newly qualified OT? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate aboutcollaborative working with children in community settings? Then this maybe the post for you.
Candidates should be enthusiastic and haveexcellent communication skills.They should be motivated to develop their skills for the benefit of children and families.
The work will involve assessments of children and delivering intervention in the form of prescribed Packages of Care. There will be opportunities available to deliver workshops to empower parents and support continuity of care.
The post holder will manage a defined caseload of children with a variety of conditions. These may include autism, neurological disabilities, functional difficulties and children with sensory processing difficulties. Tobe responsible for the assessment and on-going therapeutic management of children in community settings which may include, schools, nurseries, home visits and in community clinics. The post holder willcompetently assess and deliver OT programmes to children in the service and will be accountable for their own clinical work as well as to their nominated supervisor.
This is a community post, across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions.
Our Occupational Therapists work with children aged 0 to 19 in community settings across Birmingham.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
• To be responsible for a clinical caseload within the community/CDC and monitor own workload/ treatment methods in order to maintain high professional standards. To advise for Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy and Service Clinical Manager of related issues as appropriate.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work, including the management of children on the caseload
• To assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting the information gathered to contribute to the diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan.
• To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications
• Develop intervention packages to be delivered as one to one sessions either by the occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant.
• To carry out nursery and/or home visits as appropriate teaching others to carry out activities as appropriate to support treatment goals.
• To provide specialist OT advice and suggestions to other professionals involved e.g. doctors, physiotherapists, nursery nurses, family support workers and speech and language therapists, etc.
• To assess, provide and monitor the use of aids and appliances, liaising with Occupational Therapists from the Disabled Children’s Social Care team and teach the parents about health and safety issues surrounding the equipment.
• Supervise treatment plans devised by the occupational therapist and undertaken by the occupational therapy assistant.
• To supervise OT students on practice placement.
• To communicate effectively and sensitively with children and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of the condition and its implications, at times where English may not be the first language. This will involve the use of a range of communication skills including persuasion, motivation, explanation and an understanding of alternative communication systems that may be used by the child, including sign language, gestures and other non-verbal methods.
• To communicate user-related information effectively to the multi-disciplinary team, including colleagues in Education, Social Care and Health and acute services to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated service.
• To contribute to the development of new service delivery model in order to facilitate the effective uses of resources and meet the current demand and changes.
• To be involved in different service development and clinical governance activities e.g. may lead clinical audits, undertake research etc. specific to setting
• To provide clinical cover for other therapists as appropriate
This advert closes on Friday 6 Jun 2025