Children’s Occupational Therapist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	27 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£44,485 - £52,521 inclusive of HCAs per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	26 September 2025
Location:	Enfield, EN2 0JB
Company:	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7442727/391-NMUH-7322299-A

Summary

Band 6 1.00wte , permanent 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 as Royal Free London North Mid Trust NHS .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.

The successful candidate will be committed to occupationally focused, family centred and evidence based care.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

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 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

SEE JOB DESCRIPTION


This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Sep 2025