Children’s Occupational Therapist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,521 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7322299/391-NMUH-7322299 |
Summary
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.
Band 5 development to band 6 will be considered.
· 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.
· 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.
· To participate in multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
· To select and apply appropriate Occupational Therapy assessments for children, addressing occupational performance and enabling the child in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
· 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.
· To work within an occupational frame of reference.
· 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.
· To demonstrate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using current research, and clinical reasoning skills.
· To plan and implement individual and /or group interventions, in collaboration with the child/carer.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
· To use excellent communication skills when working with children and young people and their families/carers to ensure their voices are heard and is reflected in goal setting and intervention.
· To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with children and carers. This will include individuals who may have difficulties in understanding or communication. For children who may be hearing or visually impaired, dysphasic or whose first language may not be English
· To demonstrate effective communication skills with multi-disciplinants members and partner organisation (e.g. Education and Social services). Contributing to decisions in regard to client care.
· To deliver training programmes to carer’s and school staff in line with care pathways.
· To promote awareness of the role of OT
· To use interpreters as appropriate
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This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025