(Part-Time) Occupational Therapist - Children and Young People
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2026 |
| Location: | Aylesbury, HP20 1EG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9267-25-1512 |
Summary
To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work including prioritising work. To clinically triage children and young people to identify clinical need, prioritisation, appropriate assessment and therapeutic intervention. To provide specialist and comprehensive trauma informed speech and Language therapy assessment for children / young people referred to the Service, for a range of clinical presentations within scope of competence. This will involve gathering, interpreting and evaluating highly complex information from a variety of sources, using evidence-based therapy outcome measures and analysing the child/yps needs using skilled problem-solving approaches. To independently make differential diagnoses on the basis of evidence from assessment and to develop clear care plans embedded in evidence base To formulate, implement, evaluate and adapt individualised treatment or management programmes for children / young people on the caseload, taking the childs and families goals into consideration and using clinical reasoning skills and support from senior staff. To provide advice, including writing reports, to others regarding the management and care of children / young people on the caseload with speech/language/communication within the scope of their competence. We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.