Children's Occupational Therapist- Haringey
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,485.00 to £52,521.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44485.00 - £52521.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, N15 4RH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0858 |
Summary
See full details in the document attached. PATIENT/CLIENT CARE 1. To carry a personal clinical caseload maintaining a high level of professional competence and demonstrate developing clinical expertise. 2. To administer specialist standardised and structured assessments, interpret results and contribute to accurate diagnosis and prognosis within the team responsible for the childs care. 3. To assess and treat individual children with complex needs, in their homes and special school, mainstream school or clinic setting, working as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and liaising closely with education staff and parents/carers. 4. To devise and manage a specialised treatment plan individual to a childs presenting condition through: Home programs agreed with parents Practice of functional tasks in the natural environment Therapeutic handling and postural management Equipment provision at home and school Developmentally appropriate skills in play, self care and nursery activities Sensory based interventions Health Promotion/extra curricular activities e.g. swimming Addressing relevant psychosocial issues Multidisciplinary approach, coordinating support with other members of the team. 5. To attend meetings necessary to co-ordinate multi-agency care of the child e.g. transition planning, child protection. 6. To utilise a 3-tiered model of practice universal, targeted and specialist to deliver high quality evidence-based care. 7. To keep accurate and timely records, and write reports and discharge summaries as required, ensuring that confidentiality and information-sharing standards are met as in Trust and professional standards. 8. To provide Occupational Therapy advice to Education Health and Care assessments, as required. 9. To be actively involved in target setting and annual review meetings, working across disciplines to ensure continuity of approach and to maximise the effectiveness of treatment in the home and school settings. 10. To plan and carry out home visits to the child in the home environment, to carry out risk assessments; to assess for specialist equipment, or to advise the parent/carer. 11. To be involved in the assessment for and selection of specialist equipment for children at home and in the special school/ mainstream school, taking responsibility for review of its safety and appropriateness. 12. To establish relationships with community services and facilities, and to assist children and their families to make links with resources available to them. 13. To work effectively with clients, carers, and colleagues around individual case management, providing advice, guidance and support as necessary and involving them in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible. 14. To reflect on clinical practice; adequately identifying strengths & needs of clients, reviewing their response to therapy and providing evidence of sound clinical judgement. 15. To monitor and review the progress of children on caseload and facilitate the development or modification of packages of care / targets as appropriate using evaluation/outcome measurement tools. 16. To adapt practice to meet individual client/carers circumstances, taking into account cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 17. To produce accurate, & detailed reports, therapy programmes, advice and information as necessary in a timely manner. 18. To refer children to other Health, Education or Social Services professionals as necessary. 19. To undertake home visits, as necessary, in compliance with Home Visiting Safety Policy.