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The Children's Occupational Therapy Team in The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit a band 6 Occupational Therapist to work in their well established and supportive team. Would you want to work with inspirational children and young people who have a physical disability or a difficulty which impacts on their day-to-day activities? Do you want to develop your junior career in paediatrics? If so, we could be the team for you!!
We are looking for applicants to preferably have experience of working with CYP in a multi-disciplinary team, as you will be working as an integral part of a small experienced supportive team of OTs, PTs, and unregistered staff, and other members of the wider MDT. The post holder will support clinical intervention for children with neuro developmental and motor skills difficulties. You will have the opportunity to work with children aged 0 - 19 years in a variety of settings, including nurseries, schools and in our Children’s Centre on site, and have an opportunity to develop our services in specialist schools. We are looking for an excellent communicator who can prioritise a complex and varied case load, who can work autonomously as well as part of a team. Training and personal development is well supported.
If this sounds like the role for you, or if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us!
Caseload management of a community caseload within the west Norfolk locality.
Assessment and intervention of children and young people aged between 0-19, using standardised assessments and evidence-based treatment techniques.
Working in a variety of community settings, including mainstream schools, early years settings and nurseries and clinics.
Contribution to Education Health and Care plans for children on your caseload, and awareness of the SEND agenda overall.
Contribution to peer supervision.
Working alongside other health professionals including physiotherapists, therapy assistants, GPs, Consultant Paediatricians.
Providing supervision to students, therapy assistants and other qualified members of the OT Team.
Ordering and management of equipment needs for the children on caseload using the recognised system.
The detailed job description and main responsibilities are detailed within the attached documents.
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.
We love working here and think you will too.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andreia Henriques Ferreira Job title: Occupational Therapist Email address: andreia.henriquesferreira@qehkl.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01553 613613
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