Band 6 Children\'s Occupational Therapist

Overview

HCRG Care Group is looking for a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist to join our Children's 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 Children's 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 children's homes, providing flexible and responsive care across Wiltshire.

• 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.

To view the full role responsibilities please see the attached job description.

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. We re 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 doesn t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we ll need to close it earlier than the date we ve shown here. If you re keen to join our team, we d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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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.