Are you looking for a new role working with children and young people? We are looking for an occupational therapist to support our multi‑professional team in assessing children and young people for Autism and ADHD. The role will include carrying out assessment directly for children aged 5‑18 with the support of the team around you, and additionally you will support the team to consider the needs of children and young people in the pathway and support greater understanding and consideration of occupational therapy in this space. Please note this role is working part‑time 22.5 hours per week.
Role Overview
You will join a friendly and supportive, well‑established, and knowledgeable multi‑professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career and continuing professional development.
Responsibilities
* Carry out assessment directly for children age 5‑18 with the support of the team around you.
* Support the multidisciplinary team to understand the profile and needs of the young people on your caseload and support the understanding in the team to make recommendations for adaptations to the assessment and within the report for other partner agencies.
* Raise the awareness of the occupational therapy needs of young people with neurodivergence in CAMHs.
* Offer trauma‑informed assessment to support differential diagnosis for young people accessing CAMHs services.
* Support the multi‑professional team in assessing children and young people for Autism and ADHD.
Qualifications & Requirements
Essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview. Applicants should refer to the essential and desirable criteria within their application to increase their chances of being selected for interview. All new starters have a thorough induction process, local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and, where possible, will always look to make reasonable adjustments so that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Benefits
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
About the Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti‑racism, equality, diversity and inclusion. We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce and actively encourage applications from people with disabilities, men from all socio‑economic backgrounds, people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Oxford is a world‑renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary Care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
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