Band 5 Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Job Summary

*** Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may be closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible***

Are you a newly qualified OT? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about collaborative working with children in community settings? Then this may be the post for you.

Candidates should be enthusiastic and have excellent communication skills. They should be motivated to develop their skills for the benefit of children and families.

• Provide Occupational Therapy, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support the early identification of need.
• Work as part of multidisciplinary and multi‑agency teams, delivering specialist interventions according to the agreed service packages of care and pathways providing early intervention for children and young people.
• Contribute towards ensuring children and young people with additional needs gain access to a broad, balanced and relevant education while also having their exceptional needs met in an inclusive way as possible.
• Participate in providing support and reassurance to parents and families; develop and maintain effective parent partnership working and deliver a professional development framework for the wider workforce.
• Be responsible for assessment and ongoing therapeutic management of children in designated community and educational settings.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

• Date posted: 19 February 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band:
  Band 5
• Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full‑time
• Reference number:
  
  -CF-A
• Job location:
  
  Soho Health Centre, Soho Road, Birmingham, B21 9RY