childrens occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 06 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,763.00 to £43,466.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35763.00 - £43466.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9391-25-1579 |
Summary
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 work autonomously but with the ability to know when to seek support and clinical advice. To participate in multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention. With clinical support as needed to select and apply appropriate OccupationalTherapy 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 increasingly demonstrate the ability to analyse the interplay of the child, environment and activity when assessing the childs 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 interventions, in collaboration with the child/carer. To work with Senior OTs to provide training sessions to schools and families and group therapy sessions. To evaluate interventions through the use of appropriate outcome measures, to ensure effectiveness of intervention. To manage clinical risk within own clinical caseload and seek help as needed.