# Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Achieving For Children
**Location**: Chessington, Surrey
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £52,194 to £57,402 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist (equivalent to band 7) to join our team at the Moor Lane Centre in Chessington.

The post holder will manage and lead service delivery in a specific area of the service, providing clinical support and supervision to other therapists and occupational therapy assistants, including line management responsibilities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Planning the service within the specific area of work and taking the lead on providing strategic direction for others

- Continuous improvement of the specialty, ensuring the team knowledge base is current and evidence-based

- Carrying a complex caseload of children and young people with a wide range of disabilities

- Regularly reporting progress for clinical governance and audit purposes

The ideal candidate will have:

- Demonstrable extensive post-qualifying clinical experience working in paediatrics

- Solid knowledge of current evidence-based practice in paediatric OT and application in assessment, treatment approaches, and evaluating outcomes

- Significant experience of undertaking complex assessment and treatment with a wide variety of children and young people presenting with significant and complex needs

- Experience of providing clinical supervision and acting as a role model for junior staff

We offer a salary of £52,194 to £57,402 per year, plus a health market supplement.

The post is permanent and full-time, with flexible working arrangements.

If you are a motivated and experienced occupational therapist looking for a new challenge, please apply.

## Skills

### Required
- paediatric occupational therapy
- clinical supervision
- complex assessment and treatment
- evidence-based practice

### Nice to have
- clinical governance
- audit
- legislation
- equality and diversity issues
- negotiation and influencing skills

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