Childrens Occupational Therapist

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Therapist with experience in Children's community physical health.

You’ll work across our integrated health, education and social care provision, supporting the early years and mainstream pathway. Your role will include assessment and intervention for a dedicated caseload, allocated via our integrated clinical pathways these are underpinned by current evidence-based practice and service specific quality standards.

Our clinical bases are located in Nuneaton, Rugby, and Warwick offering flexible working across sites.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative service where you’ll be encouraged to grow, and make a real difference to lives of children and families.

To provide effective Occupational Therapy service to children and young people across Warwickshire within a variety of community based settings.

Following the principles of Governance, to develop and maintain a high quality service, through recognised professional standards, evidence based practice, and effective clinical audit programme.

To use a client centred approach within the multi-disciplinary team, and to work as an autonomous practitioner to enable each client to achieve their potential in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure, and to promote independence and participation in life roles in the home and community.

To manage a caseload of clients with complex conditions.

To deputise for the Senior Therapy Staff as required.

Dimensions

To deliver a graduated needs led approach to assessment and provision in line with the active service delivery model and pathways.

To prescribe equipment and resources relevant to practice, in line with the policies and procedures of the Integrated Community Equipment Service within their authorised budgetary limit

To ensure medical devises are fit for purpose in line with the Trust medical devices policy and action repair of faults.

To ensure clinical activity is inputted onto the electronic record system (Lorenzo) in accordance with Trust record keeping policy

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn Kimberley Job title: Childrens Occupational Therapy Service Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07385426638

Or 01926 567122

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