Band 6 Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Location: Surrey

Reference: SCS481

Supply Care Solutions are a market-leading Medical, Social Care and Education recruitment consultancy, we offer a range of accredited services across the public sector, providing highly skilled, compliant professionals in all grades and specialties, including short, long term and permanent positions.

Type: Temp 23/04/2025 to 18/07/2025 with the possibility extension

Hours: Monday to Friday – 09.00-17.00

Pay Rate: Up to £42 per hour umbrella

About the role

As a Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist you will work in a range of settings as an autonomous practitioner, providing high quality Paediatric occupational therapy to support children and young people with disabilities to achieve their potential. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to support children and young people’s occupational therapy needs and provide specialist advice to other disciplines. You will carry a specialist caseload of children and young people with a variety of complex physical, learning and social needs and be responsible for writing reports for EHCP and MDT assessments/reviews. As part of the role you will contribute to the supervision of students on clinical placement and support workers who are working with children and young people on your caseload.

Qualifications

• Diploma/BSc/Graduate Diploma/MSc in Occupational Therapy.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Additional short specialist courses relevant to your own clinical area and documented
• Evidence of CPD (maintained portfolio).

Skills and Experience 

• Experience of clinical assessment and intervention as an Occupational Therapist.
• Passionate about and/or have experience in working as an OT in paediatrics.
• Working knowledge of child development, neuro-development and childhood occupations.
• Able to plan and prioritise workload, demonstrate initiative through being consistently solution focused.
• Skilled in assessment planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, complying with professional and service standards and working as an autonomous practitioner.
• Able to prepare clearly written reports for use by multiple agencies.
• Knowledge, training and experience of a using range of therapeutic techniques and approaches, including non-standardised and standardised assessments.
• Knowledge/experience of physical and developmental disabilities and their impact on occupational performance.
• Experience and participate in clinical audits/research.
• Able to communicate sensitive, condition related information to clients using empathy and reassurance and able to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Able to provide and implement OT programmes within a specialist field and work collaboratively to upskill school staff and caregivers through training, sharing advice and strategies to support the child/young person.
• Supervision of students and / or support/junior staff.

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