Children's Occupational Therapist

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	04 Mawrth 2026
Cyflog:	£38,682.00 i £46,580.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38682.00 - £46580.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	15 Mawrth 2026
Lleoliad:	Headington, OX3 9DU
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9321-26-0275

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.To communicate and discuss complex information with senior medical staff, OT team and the multi-disciplinary team and to represent an individual or the Occupational Therapy service at multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings, including discussions about patient care, treatment, patient progress and discharge/transition planning. 2.To effectively communicate, negotiate and explain the assessment findings and treatment/intervention plans in a non-judgmental and considered manner to children/parents/carers and other agencies e.g. GPs, Consultants, social services and education services, which may occasionally include issues regarding child protection. 3.To provide advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. 4.To liaise and effectively communicate with community agencies e.g. community therapists, schools, social services, equipment providers, etc prior to discharge, providing accurate written reports as necessary to ensure safe and timely discharge. 5.To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date patient records according to professional (RCOT and HCPC) and Trust standards. Clinical Responsibilities 1.To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of all patients in your care. 2.To work flexibly and be able to adjust to the constantly changing demands of the service. 3.To have holistic understanding of patient and family dynamics, the patients condition and its impact on function. 4.To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the children under your management at all times and support more junior staff to do likewise. 5.To use clinical reasoning skills in developing individual care plans that may include a treatment programme of therapeutic intervention as well as education and advice to parents, carers, school stuff, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency professionals. 6.To assess the childs/ parents/ carers understanding of the assessment and treatment proposals, gaining valid informed consent and have the knowledge to work within a legal framework with children who lack the capacity to consent to the treatment. 7.To undertake the comprehensive assessment of children including those with complex presentations using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised management and treatment plans. 8.To accept clinical and managerial responsibility for a designated caseload of children and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities, available resources and use of time in order to facilitate safe, timely discharge. 9.To use sound judgement and analytical skills in recommending the best course of intervention, taking into account the range of treatment options and modalities available e.g. specialist seating, adaptation of equipment, clothing, splinting etc. 10.To assess for and order equipment for short term use to facilitate discharge; to advise regarding its safe use and to justify to manager provision of high value adaptive equipment. 11.To assess and advise on long term equipment needs and liaise with appropriate community teams for provision of this. 12.To formulate, evaluate and progress specialised treatment programmes and recommend the best course of intervention for the children, setting realistic goals jointly agreed with all parties concerned. 13.To evaluate the childs progress, reassess and alter treatment as required, monitoring treatment using sound measurement and validated outcome measures. 14.To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out occupational therapy duties and to adhere to departmental policy including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by yourself and others through teaching, training and supervision of practice. 15.To work with other therapists and agencies to ensure the safe physical management/handling of children. This will include the use of risk assessments and highly developed manual handling techniques. 16.To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapys professional, operational and clinical guidelines and have a working knowledge of national and local standards for monitoring own quality of practice. 17.To evaluate emergency situations and act accordingly working within procedures and protocols laid down by the service and the Trust. 18.To accept personal responsibility for the actions and quality of own work and those staff whose responsibility is delegated to you. 19.To treat as confidential all information obtained during the course of duties undertaken. 20.To demonstrate an ability to deal effectively with sensitive and contentious information, particularly with respect to difficult social situation and child protection issues. 21.To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidenced based practice, developing specialist knowledge and integrating theory into practice. 22.To continually undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work in light of current and developing protocols, standards, evidence-based research, audit and outcome measures. Professional 1.To work within relevant Professional Standards of Practice of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) and adhering to Trust policies and procedures. Planning and Organisational Skills 1.To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other occupational therapy related and professional demands and ensure that these priorities remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole. 2.To attend and participate in the Trust mandatory training, including child protection and departmental in-service training. 3.To participate in appropriate Clinical Governance activities such as Risk Assessments, Incident reporting etc. and demonstrate a thorough understanding of these being able to apply them to a work situation. 4.To undertake risk assessments on a daily basis, e.g. work space, equipment, patients and self, using judgment skills to make the necessary adjustments in line with health and safety regulations. 5.To carry a bleep and respond to calls and requests when based in the hospital in a timely manner and with appropriate action. This can involve re-prioritising the day in order to meet an urgent patient need involving safety or same day discharge. Service and Personal Development 1.To work within relevant professional standards of practice (RCOT) adhering to Trust procedures. 2.To participate in the development of the Occupational Therapy service. 3.To manage and undertake audit, benchmarking and research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of methodologies as part of multi-disciplinary departmental initiatives. 4.To actively participate in the fieldwork education and training of OT students to graduate level as well as other professionals in education, health, social care and voluntary bodies as appropriate. 5.To actively participate in continuing professional development to further own learning and personal development, including regular supervision,peer reviewand annual appraisal. 6.To participate actively in sharing and receiving in-service training and development, to ensure sharing of learning, skills, knowledge and expertise and promote continuous professional development. Gain further knowledge by attending external course identified at appraisal and demonstrate reflection on and use of that new knowledge in your work. 7.Attend statutory and mandatory training in line with Trust policies. 8.To be responsible for complying with your agreed objectives and personal development plan while maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities. 9.To record continuing professional development in own portfolio, linked to the annual appraisal and personal development plan. 10.To actively seek peer and clinical support by participating in national clinical and special interest groups in order to keep up to date with professional information. 11.To contribute towards service reviews, audit, research and development within the childrens therapy service. 12.To be aware of and promote cross-site links by working with other therapists across the Trust and to support OT speciality teams. Information and Resource Management 1.To make proposals for securing funding for equipment, or study days. 2.To be aware of and abide by the criteria for provision of equipment including financial limits and referring onto other organisations as necessary. 3.To be competent using the online equipment ordering system to facilitate patient discharge. 4.Ensure all equipment is used appropriately and safely, according to RCOT service guidelines. 5.To take responsibility for the maintenance of the departments equipment and information files. 6.To compile, record and collate accurate statistics for treatment interventions in a timely manner. 7.To maintain patient records and statistics in line with Trust Standards and the Department Policy and the Data Protection Act. 8.To maintain up-to-date records or all leave (annual, sick, professional, study) and to take responsibility for the reporting of absence. 9.To use the Trust intranet, EPR systems, PAS and data bases and assist in training of other staff on how to use it. 10.To be able to use e-mail for communications across the sites, and to use the Therapy IT system for sharing / using information.