Childrens Occupational Therapist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	16 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£53,751 - £60,651 Per Annum Including HCAS
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	15 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Enfield, EN2 0JB
Cwmni:	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7663725/391-NMUH-7663725

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This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wishes to develop specialist skills in Paediatrics within a supportive service. We are a dynamic, innovative and friendly team who report high levels of job satisfaction.

We offer a professionally led service with direct support from an OT Clinical Lead Specialist, monthly in-service team training, effective supervision and External Training opportunities through the Trust. We are located within easy commuter links from central London/Hertfordshire.

This is a full time, mixed role post. Spending three days in the NHS Community Children’s team and 2 days in Durants School OT Team.

Durant’s is a secondary school for Autism. The role will include staff/parent training and class-based provision as well as individual work.

For the community, you will sit within a dynamic multi professional team working in an integrated approach with multi-agency partners. The postholder will hold a mixed caseload of 0-18 year olds working in clinic, homes and mainstream schools/nurseries.

We are an innovative team, committed to evidence-based practice; you will have the opportunity to gain skills in CO-OP, M-CIMT and Occupational Coaching.

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

For an informal chat or to arrange a visit pleasecontact: Fiona Kingsley on 02045537704









To provide a high standard Occupational Therapy service to children aged 0-18years referred to Enfield Children’s Occupational Therapy Department.

To contribute to and lead on aspects of planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service.

To be responsible for a defined caseload of children in the community, clinics and Durants school.

To work within the Durants OT schools’ team to develop and provide Occupational Therapy services for students who attend Durants School (a maintained special school for students with ASD, 11-19 years) both at home and school.

To provide high quality child centred, occupationally focused assessment and intervention for children on the caseload.

To work with the OT team and school Leadership to plan and develop the OT service into Durants school working at a Universal, Targeted and Specialist level.

To work as an autonomous practitioner with access to supervision.

To supervise, appraise and train students and junior staff as required.

To work effectively and flexibly within an interdisciplinary framework in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.

To be flexible to the demands of the service in regard to location of work and area of clinical specialism.





The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield.

In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
• To manage a caseload of children and young people with a range of needs including those with complex disabilities, providing occupationally focused assessments and intervention.
• To work with the Durants school team to develop a high quality, evidence -based service provision into Durants school. This will include staff training and Universal and Targeted provision as well as Specialist support.
• To provide both home and school- based OT input to the students in Durants school focusing on occupational areas of need and preparing students for adulthood.
• To set occupationally focused intervention goals with children and/ or their parents/carers and school staff.
• To set and maintain high standards of clinical practice, which is evidence-based, and includes outcome measures to monitor achievements of person centred goals and whole class approaches.
• 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 devise and manage a specialised treatment plan individual to a child’s presenting condition through occupationally focused intervention, school equipment provision (as appropriate), school and parental support & training, advice & strategies and programmes.
• To form productive relationships with parents/carers who may be under stress.
• To advise and teach parents/carers and school staff of children with additional needs on appropriate on-going Occupational Therapy management programmes. To develop integrated support plans with schools, multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to ensure effective management in achieving the best care for the child.
• To work as part of the core OT service in the delivery of training and workshop programmes to educational establishments, to best help children achieve outcomes within inclusive facilities.
• To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for moving and handling children in school environments.
• To assess and manage clinical risk concerning the treatment of clients in own caseload and support junior staff to do the same e.g. Manual Handling risk assessment, Trust lone working Policy.
• To implement evidence-based practice and manage clinical risk within specific area of specialism. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness in specialist area thorough the use of outcome measures and audits.
• To work within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency framework.
• To provide clinical support to junior staff and colleagues
• To work within the standards and guidelines of the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service, the Trust, the British Association of Occupational Therapy (BAOT) and the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
• To understand and apply National Guidelines and Legislation relating to Health, Education and Social Care in occupational therapy practise.
• To have a good working knowledge of the Code of Practice and Educational Care Health Plans.
• To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines and frequent interruptions..
• To complete other duties that may be delegated as appropriate by senior staff


This advert closes on Friday 30 Jan 2026