Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Polegate, BN26 6QH |
| Cwmni: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7236518/846-7236518-UJ |
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Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your occupational therapy career in Paediatrics?
We are a highly successfulintegrated therapy service with a pooled budget across health and social care. Although based in East Sussex, we are employed by KCHFT which is an outstanding trust.
We are currently seeking an Occupational Therapist with significant post qualification experience in paediatrics,with an interest in working with children, particularly school-age to support their access to education.
An interest in SENand working with children with coordination difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions and knowledge of postural management would be advantageous.
We are seeking highly motivated and innovative therapists to embrace new ways ofworking aimed at transforming the local offer in schools to improve inclusion and reduce SEMH secondary to unmet needs. Car-driver is essential.
This post is for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to work with children or young people from 0-19 years; working in clinics,mainstream schools and in the community. The post-holder will work closely with the Therapy One Point team of therapists and as part of an integrated therapy team including Speech and Language Therapist, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists including Adaptation specialists and Integrated Therapy Assistants.
The service has a strong commitment to training and development with robust supervision and shadowing opportunitiesacross the service.
To provide a highly specialist lead role in Paediatric OT and to lead on policy development across East Sussex Children’s Integrated Therapy Service (ESCITS).
• To be responsible for managing a complex and specialist clinical caseload and to act as a specialist resource to the Locality team and other professionals and agencies.
• To be responsible for the management supervision and clinical supervision of identified staff within the team in collaboration with the Professional Leads and /or Locality Clinical Managers.
• To be responsible for ensuring the team provides a high quality and cost effective clinical service to disabled children /young people and their families in collaboration with the Professional Leads and Locality Clinical Managers.
• To be responsible for ensuring that all team members are working to agreed care pathway(s).
• To report to and advise the Professional Leads and/or Locality Clinical Manager of the teams’ development within a specialist clinical area to ensure it is in line with the organisation’s business objectives.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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This advert closes on Monday 16 Jun 2025