Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
Service for Complex Assessment of Neurodevelopment (SCAN) previously known as the Social Development Clinic (SDC) based at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Harrington Building provides specialist assessment of highly complex presentations of neurodevelopmental conditions for children and young people aged 3 to 18 years with complex neurodevelopmental differences, meaning differences in how the brain develops and how someone learns, communicates, and understands the world.
We use a whole‑person, holistic approach, which means we think about everything that might be affecting a young person's development and wellbeing, including:
* Different developmental and learning needs
* Environment and experiences at home, school, and in the community
* Any genetic or physical health factors that might play a part
Our service is for children and young people who still need answers or support after local assessments. We help when there are unresolved questions about a diagnosis or to explore ways to best support a young person's needs.
This is a tier 4 service that provides further in-depth assessment of children and young people who have been assessed by locality CAMHS or community paediatric services and have been unable to conclude due to complex differential factors, such as but not limited to genetic conditions and in utero exposure to medicines.
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist occupational therapy assessment in line with the service overview whilst also contributing to the MDT decision making in a highly specialist service assessing across the spectrum of neurodevelopmental needs.
This will be done alongside colleagues from Psychiatry, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Nurse Specialists, CAMHS, Paediatrics and Occupational Therapy.
While primarily a role providing specialist occupational therapy assessment, you will be required to contribute to highly complex case reviews, clinical formulation and decision‑making where appropriate. You will support governance activity including performance monitoring, data quality, audit, service evaluation and improvement initiatives.
The role can be worked across the week flexibly, however, we do run the clinical assessment space as a collective on Thursday of the working week, suitable candidates would therefore need to be available on the majority of Thursdays.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC Registration
* BSc/MSc degree in Occupational Therapy
* Qualifications relevant to teaching/training in the workplace
Experience
* Significant experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, FASD
* Significant experience of working with children and young people with acute and/or chronic health disorders (e.g. neuro‑rehabilitation, genetic conditions)
* Experience of liaison with a range of agencies such as the Local authority, specialist and community health
* Experience of identifying child protection risk, and knowledge of systems for managing this risk
* Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Experience of working with children and young people with mental health problems and their families, including demonstrable experience of working within and/or with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
* Experience of supervising/managing/leading staff and/or team
* Working at a Band 7 level
* Formal training in clinical supervision
* Experience of audit/research
* Formal teaching experiences
* Experience of working with complex presentations
Skills
* Excellent organisational, communication, negotiation and case management skills
* Ability to work collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary team
* Commitment to undertake further relevant training
* The ability to work independently managing a highly complex caseload with the support of clinical supervision and case management supervision
* Flexible, enthusiastic, approachable, assertive and constructive
* Current driving licence and access to a car
* Leadership skills and the ability to motivate others
* Confident in role/judgement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Address
Harrington Building (Adjacent to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Reference number
349-MCH-7812910-RL4
Job locations
Harrington Building (Adjacent to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital)
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