# Occupational Therapist (Principal Advisor)

**Company**: London Borough of Hounslow
**Location**: London Borough of Hounslow
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 53,919 - 59,298 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

As an Occupational Therapist in Hounslow, you will provide and co-ordinate specialist advice, consultation and support to ensure children and young people are fully included and supported. You will develop and use innovative ways of working to support children and young people across universal, targeted and specialist levels, including supporting delivery of the DfE “Experts at Hand” initiative.

Key responsibilities:

- Provide and co-ordinate specialist advice, consultation and support

- Develop and use innovative ways of working

- Develop skills across a wide range of ages and settings

- Work closely with schools and settings to develop early intervention approaches

- Contribute to assessment, consultation, and wider strategic work

- Deliver training, modelling and coaching to up-skill the wider workforce and build capacity

- Build strong partnerships with families, schools, and multi-agency colleagues

- Support and supervise other team members, with opportunities to lead on projects within the team

- Play a key role in improving outcomes for Hounslow children and young people

The therapy team is part of a newly developing multi-disciplinary service - Specialist Practice & Advice - bringing together Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Portage, Early Years practitioners, and specialist teachers. This creates rich opportunities for integrated work focussed on inclusive practice and early intervention, that goes beyond traditional models of Occupational Therapy services.

We offer a supportive and ambitious environment, where you will receive regular supervision, a range of professional development opportunities, and support to further develop relevant areas of clinical interest.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A strong grounding in evidence-based and high-quality practice

- Commitment to inclusion, equity, and early intervention

- Enjoy collaborative and multi-disciplinary working

- Motivated to contribute to service development and innovation

- Strong communication skills to liaise and collaborate with multi-agency professionals, parents and carers

- Qualified Occupational Therapist, with post registration sensory integration training or equivalent professional experience

- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

- A member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- sensory integration
- motor coordination
- environmental adaptation

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