Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,751 - £60,651 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sidcup, London, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7776639/277-7776639-CYP |
Summary
We are looking for a highly motivated Band 7 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic and forward‑thinking Community Paediatric Occupational Therapy team in the London Borough of Bexley.
This is a highly specialist role providing occupational therapy input to children and young people aged 0–19 years across a range of community, educational and clinical settings, to deliver high standards of child centred, needs led care across the borough of Bexley in partnership with local services.
This post will specifically deliver occupational therapy into specialist educational needs schools at secondary and primary level as well as running community clinic appointments at Acorns CDC setting.
• Provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and intervention across health, education and community care settings within Bexley.
• Support children and young people with a wide range of needs, including sensory needs, neurodivergence, DCD, complex neurological conditions and fine motor skill difficulties.
• Deliver regular input into specialist educational needs schools (primary and secondary).
• Provide services within the Acorns clinic as part of the wider Community Paediatrics team.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, developing strong working relationships with partner agencies and education settings.
• Contribute to maintaining the service’s high standards of child‑centred, needs‑led care.
• Provide supervision and support for junior staff and students.
• Take on leadership responsibilities in line with Band 7 expectations.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Main Duties of the Job
• Provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and intervention across health, education and community care settings within Bexley.
• Support children and young people with a wide range of needs, including sensory needs, neurodivergence, DCD, complex neurological conditions and fine motor skill difficulties.
• Deliver regular input into specialist educational needs schools (primary and secondary).
• Provide services within the Acorns clinic as part of the wider Community Paediatrics team.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, developing strong working relationships with partner agencies and education settings.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Feb 2026
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