# Highly Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Barnet Children's Integrated Therapies team. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of the Occupational Therapy Service for children and young people in Specialist schools, while managing a varied and rewarding clinical caseload across the community.

The post involves working with children and young people 0-19 years across a range of settings, including Special schools, children's homes, and clinic environments. The role requires providing clinical leadership for children with complex physical disabilities, ensuring best-practice assessment, intervention, and ongoing service development.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing expert assessment and management for children requiring specialist seating and upper limb interventions

- Working closely with tertiary services and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care

- Developing the Occupational Therapy service within the Complex specific pathway

- Providing high-quality clinical supervision, oversight, and day-to-day support to junior OTs

The team offers:

- Outer London Pay weighting, worth up to £4,967

- Excellent CPD opportunities

- Informal networking across the 4 Boroughs where Whittington Health provides services for Children and Young People

- Commitment to excellence in practice

- Strong and supportive supervision and direct line management

- Agile working in the community using mobile technology

- Flexible working hours and arrangements

- Shadowing opportunities

- Service and Trust Induction Packages

- Specialist advice and second opinions

- Team Meetings

- Appraisals

- Support to develop your own clinical interests

- Team projects co-working with other colleagues

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy

- HPC Registration

- Evidence of continued Professional Development related to the post

- Experience of multidisciplinary working with Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Paediatricians, and other agencies

- Experience of assessment, provision, and review of specialist equipment and environmental adaptations for children with physical disabilities

- Advanced skills in the assessment and management of upper limb function, including splinting

- Excellent therapy assessment and treatment skills in specialist field

- Ability to plan, prioritise, and manage a complex caseload alongside leadership responsibilities

- Demonstrates effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies

- IT skills including word processing and excel

- Excellent presentation skills of complex information

This is a Band 7 role with a salary range of £55,524 to £62,652 per annum.

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## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- multidisciplinary working
- specialist seating
- upper limb interventions
- clinical leadership
- communication skills
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- Clinical educator training
- Masters level modules
- Member of RCOT
- Minimum 2 years NHS experience

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