Come and join our friendly and supportive Occupational Therapy Team at Ham Clinic

The Richmond Occupational Therapy Department is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 therapist to join the Children's Therapy Team. You will join an established team of Occupational Therapists who work closely together in an integrated service with Children's Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapists. We are commissioned to deliver a service to children between 0 - 18 within a variety of settings including nurseries, mainstream schools, clinics and within the home.

This post is open to current Band 6 OTs with at least one year experience or as a developing specialist role for current Band 5.

Interviews will be held on 1 August 2024.

Main duties of the job

• To assess and provide OT intervention to children with a diverse range of disabilities in Mainstream schools and the Community with supervision from the Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist.
• To undertake comprehensive assessments, using appropriate standardised and non-standardised tests, clinical observations as well as gathering appropriate information from a variety of sources.
• To use clinical reasoning skills, with support from a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist to inform practice.
• To prioritise, plan and develop appropriate individual/group goal and task oriented treatment plans and formulate a range of specialist treatment programmes.
• To monitor and evaluate Occupational Therapy intervention using feedback, re-assessment and evidence based practice to measure the effectiveness of the intervention.
• To empower parents and carers in understanding the nature of their child's disability or dysfunction, the impact it has on behaviour and function and the activities and strategies they can use in the daily routines at home to develop their child's play and functional abilities
• To comply with requests from the Education Authority to contribute to a child's statutory assessment/review, following departmental guidelines.
• To ensure that children's complex equipment needs are constantly monitored and reassessed and that each child has the most appropriate equipment to facilitate their independence within both the educational and home setting.

About us

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) provide a wide range of healthcare services for the population of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.The Clinical Services Directorates have a wide range of responsibilities to manage, including coordinating and delivering community primary care services on behalf of the Trust. A wide range of these healthcare services are delivered by staff in the community, who include medical staff, paediatric therapists, therapy assistants, health visitors, specialist nurses, nurses, nursery nurses, paediatric phlebotomists and healthcare support workers with the support of administrative staff working in localities with GPs, other health professionals, early years, education, and social care professionals.The digitalisation of health services is underway with a requirement to become paper-light by 2023 through improving the use of digital tools and adopting mobile and agile working practices and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical delivery.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Occupational Therapy/ Diploma/ M.Sc.
• Member of HCPC

Experience

Essential

• One year's paediatric experience
• Experience working as part of an MDT
• Experience working with children with special educational needs

Desirable

• Previous experience working with children

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to use clinical reasoning to demonstrate effective occupational therapy practice
• Ability to manage own time and work as a member of a team
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication
• Ability to demonstrate effective computer skills
• Ability to work flexibly

Desirable

• Some experience planning and running groups

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of child development
• Knowledge of the importance of occupation in promoting health and well being
• Knowledge and experience administering standardised assessments

Desirable

• Knowledge of sensory integration theory

Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Ham Clinic

Ashburnham Road

Richmond

TW10 7NH

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