Children's Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead for Primary School Age Children (Mid Yorks master)
Location
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/26/2025
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Description
Kayleigh Rutter, Children's Occupational Therapy Team Lead
01924 541411
[email protected]
About The Role
Join Our Supportive & Dynamic Paediatric Team!
Are you an experienced and compassionate Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career or take on a new challenge? We’re looking for a driven Band 7 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and dedicated paediatric team at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
Through service redesign and development, we have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a permanent and brand new role of Children’s Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead for children aged 5-11 years to join our established team!
Main duties
This is an amazing career opportunity to work with children and young people with a wide range of developmental, neurological, and physical needs impacting on their ability to engage in childhood occupations, utilising advanced clinical reasoning and application of skills. The post holder will be required to effectively manage and coordinate a highly complex caseload of children and young people from 0 to 19 years across a range of health, community and educational settings, whilst also being responsible for clinical leadership of the 5-11 years service, supervision of staff and duties commensurate with a clinical leadership position.
The successful post holder will be required to possess leadership skills and excel at a high standard of working. You will play an instrumental role in the planning, build and review of the new service pathway and treatment offer for primary age children and to meet the demand of ever emerging complex needs and presentations.
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Children’s Therapy Team offers high quality and evidence-based interventions for children and young people. We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment with regular supervision and CPD opportunities. The Children’s Therapy team prides itself as being part of the wider MDT which includes Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues for joined up care, and to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time.
Key Requirements
Our ideal candidate is highly motivated and enthusiastic about children's occupational therapy with a strong focus on team and service improvement.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our Benefits
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01924 541411
[email protected]
About The Role
Join Our Supportive & Dynamic Paediatric Team!
Are you an experienced and compassionate Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career or take on a new challenge? We’re looking for a driven Band 7 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and dedicated paediatric team at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
Through service redesign and development, we have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a permanent and brand new role of Children’s Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead for children aged 5-11 years to join our established team!
Main duties
This is an amazing career opportunity to work with children and young people with a wide range of developmental, neurological, and physical needs impacting on their ability to engage in childhood occupations, utilising advanced clinical reasoning and application of skills. The post holder will be required to effectively manage and coordinate a highly complex caseload of children and young people from 0 to 19 years across a range of health, community and educational settings, whilst also being responsible for clinical leadership of the 5-11 years service, supervision of staff and duties commensurate with a clinical leadership position.
The successful post holder will be required to possess leadership skills and excel at a high standard of working. You will play an instrumental role in the planning, build and review of the new service pathway and treatment offer for primary age children and to meet the demand of ever emerging complex needs and presentations.
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Children’s Therapy Team offers high quality and evidence-based interventions for children and young people. We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment with regular supervision and CPD opportunities. The Children’s Therapy team prides itself as being part of the wider MDT which includes Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues for joined up care, and to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time.
Key Requirements
Our ideal candidate is highly motivated and enthusiastic about children's occupational therapy with a strong focus on team and service improvement.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
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