Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist

Package Description
As a Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
HCRG Care Group is looking for a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Childrens Occupational Therapist to join our Childrens Integrated Therapy Team in Wiltshire. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people aged 019 years, supporting them and their families to achieve their full potential.

As a Band 6 Childrens Occupational Therapist, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, managing a complex and varied caseload of children with a wide range of needs. You will deliver specialist assessment, treatment, and ongoing management, working collaboratively with families, carers, education settings, and other professionals.

You will work across a range of community settings, including clinics, nurseries, schools, and childrens homes, providing flexible and responsive care across Wiltshire.

This is a part-time role working 22.5 hours based at one of the following localities:

• Derby Court, BA14 0XG
• Ground Floor Unit 1, Greenways Business Park, Chippenham, SN15 1BN
• High Post, Technology House, High Post Business Park, Salisbury, SP4 6AT

For any enquiries please contact Emma-Louise.Bennett@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities

• To complete comprehensive assessments of needs for the children.
• To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.
• To communicate effectively with children and young people, families and other professionals to agree joint goals for therapy.
• To use and analysis a range of appropriate outcome measures.
• To adapt practice and identify strategies to meet individual patient and family circumstances, including cultural and linguistic difference and auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic aspect of the clients communication.
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date professional documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports. This job description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops or changes to align with service needs. Any such changes will be discussed directly between the post holder and their line manager.

A full list of role responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• The successful candidate must be a registered Occupational Therapist with valid HCPC registration. Experience of working in a pediatric setting and autonomous practice is required, along with the ability to manage a varied caseload.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).