Children's Occupational Therapist (South)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	17 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	£31,049.00 i £37,796.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£31049.00 - £37796.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	01 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Torquay, TQ2 7BA
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9388-25-1083

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Please see the job description for more details regarding the post. Communication and Working Relationships To communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to children/young people and families, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team/other professions in a way that is accessible and easily understood. This will include facilitating strategies for people with communication disorders where barriers to understanding may exist To demonstrate empathy with children/young people and families, carers and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to communication exist, or sensitive issues are being dealt with. Children/young people and families and carers will frequently have difficulty accepting the information provided To develop and demonstrate negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations e.g. differences in professional opinion, differing views within families, with the support from colleagues as needed To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties To employ good presentation skills to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to a broad range of audiences including other professionals and users To write reports reflecting knowledge of children that can be accessible to both lay and professional people To contribute to clinical pathways both multi and uni-professional by discussing own and others input around children/young people and families needs, ensuring a well-coordinated care plan To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible To demonstrate good negotiation skills across a range of issues To be empathetic and reassuring in all communications Analytical and Judgement Skills To demonstrate developing knowledge across a range of therapeutic interventions To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a children/young persons communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness To use knowledge and experience to inform sound clinical judgement/decision making for case management To integrate evidence from a variety of sources to make a differential diagnosis, seeking advice as appropriate To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and development needs Planning and Organisation Skills To manage and prioritise own caseload/workload with support as required. To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and children/young people and familys priorities. Readjusting plans as situations change/arise To plan and organise intervention programmes continually monitoring them where appropriate Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy To ensure care plans are written in an understandable format for the child/young person and their family/carer To provide appropriate intervention including 1:1/group therapy, parent- based interventions and consultancy/coaching mentoring to home/education or other community setting and evaluate outcomes To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures To provide a range of brief/light touch interventions across the clinical pathways such as positive behaviour support, sleep or feeding To ensure that all documentation and records are kept safe to ensure confidentiality, as per the Royal College of Occupational Therapy and HCPC standards To promote self-advocacy and to act as an advocate for children/young people and their families To always consider safeguarding and child protection issues, following relevant policies and procedures and receiving safeguarding supervision as required To produce reports on children/young people in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that is understandable to the recipients of the reports, including children/young people and their families and referrers Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation To provide children/young people with the opportunity to express their views in an age appropriate way, to have their opinions taken into account and to be able to influence the shaping of services To assist in the implementation of local and national policies and procedures affecting the development of services for children/young people To follow their Employers policies, procedures and guidance as well as professional standards and guidelines Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources To work to the financial policies and procedures as laid down by the Employer The post holder will take appropriate care of equipment entrusted to them for use The post holder is responsible for maintaining a clear desk policy and protecting all confidential information in accordance with the organisations policies and procedures The post holder will be required to act responsibly in terms of providing best value practice and protecting service resources To take responsibility for any specific materials you are required to use, maintaining their general standard and ensuring that adequate supplies are maintained Ensure all equipment used is maintained to the required standard to ensure children/young people and families and staff safety Maintain stock control, ordering supplies in a timely manner through the agreed process Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management Support the delivery of a range of training opportunities, as appropriate using a broad range of technology to develop and deliver Supervise the work of occupational therapy clinical support workers or integrated therapy assistants where necessary. Access clinical supervision at the frequency determined by the organisation To demonstrate the developing ability to target training (formal and informal) appropriately to the needs of course participants, reflecting and evaluating training provided To participate in the organisations appraisal process Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties To be responsible for accurate and timely inputting of data into relevant data collection system to ensure workload is accurately reflected To be responsible for the inputting of accurate and contemporaneous case notes on the relevant clinical systems in line with professional and organisational standards To have a sound knowledge of IT To be computer literate To ensure all Employers policies, procedures and guidelines are followed To complete all statutory and mandatory training as required by the Employer To identify and manage risks through incident reporting when appropriate To take part in activities designed to improve service delivery or quality of care such as staff surveys, participation and service development Responsibility for Research and Development Participates in clinical audit Freedom to Act To be responsible for undertaking a range of formal and informal occupational assessments and negotiating functional goals with parents and educational staff; providing demonstrations to enable successful implementation of programmes within various settings and home To use routine outcome measures and a goals-based approach, collaboratively with service users, in ways that inform treatment and clinical care To work closely with children/young people and families and carers agreeing decision making relevant to the children/young people and families management To co-produce clear care plans based on best practice with children/young people and their families/carers Please also contact us to discuss the position or if you would like to visit us.