Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site City Care Centre Town Peterborough Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/10/2025 23:59
Community Children's Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
This post is a 12-month fixed term contract.
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children's Occupational Therapy Team. We are a small enthusiastic and hard-working team based at the Child Development Centre. We provide a service for children with neurodevelopmental difficulties or concerns around engagement within meaningful daily activities (from birth to 18 years). You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team and the role will involve providing support to children, young people and their families across Peterborough.
The role will provide you with an opportunity to work within a sort after area of Paediatrics and experience wider inter-disciplinary team dynamics. You will also work closely with external agencies and our local authority to support the needs of our service users.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic and sense of accountability. In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your post. We are keen to support and develop our staff and encourage further opportunities within the Trust where possible.
Main duties of the job
* To provide responsive and accessible Occupational Therapy to children referred to the service, in the most appropriate environment, Child Development Centre, special school, mainstream school and other community settings for children aged 0-19.
* To work in close co-operation with designated Medical Consultants, Community Paediatricians, other health care professionals and staff from agencies such as Education & Social Care.
* To maintain a full clinical caseload. To have joint responsibility and clinical supervision with the team to determine priorities and caseload management to a high professional standard using specialist knowledge and experience.
* To ensure a high standard of care based on agreed prioritisation with all disciplines and agencies involved with the child, young person and their family.
* To communicate with these agencies, parents and children in an appropriate manner, often with sensitive information regarding diagnosis and outcomes.
* To teach parents skills and strategies as appropriate.
* To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your own care.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
* To implement the Occupational Therapy Service in respect of treatment of all referred children and young people.
* To organise the caseload in such a way as to make optimum use of personal skills in the context of multi-disciplinary/multi-agency work.
* To assess, treat and evaluate children/young people referred to the service to include individual and other appropriate group work.
* To work in close co-operation with relatives and carers and to offer support as appropriate.
* To maintain close links and liaise with other agencies involved with the child.
* To attend clinics, school reviews and meetings as appropriate.
* To adhere and maintain professional standards and clinical guideline as set by heads of service and the specialist section of the College of Occupational Therapists Children and Young People and Families
* To develop specialist skills pertaining to the service, attending appropriate courses where funding is available. To be prepared to share these skills with the multi-disciplinary / multi-agency arena.
* To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote an understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to the child’s care including staff in an educational setting.
* To deliver training sessions to parents, carers and other people involved in the child’s care on topics including sensory processing, fine motor skills and coordination difficulties.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy.
* Registered as an Occupational Therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Commitment to Lifelong learning
* BAOT membership
* Post graduate attendance on child specific study days
Experience
* Broad range of core clinical experience at pre-registration or, if applicable, post registration within the NHS or other UK health setting in a related OT clinical speciality e.g. learning disability, physical disability, social services etc, with the ability to transfer OT core skills to the OT process with children & young people
* Experience working in multi-disciplinary or multi agency teams, demonstrating an ability to be an effective member of the team, working flexibly to meet patient and service needs
* Demonstrates an ability to problem solve in a clinical setting
* Demonstrates experience of working with children (paid or voluntary role)
* Paediatric fieldwork experience at undergraduate level.
* Experience working with families who are adjusting to disability issues
* Experience of working in the community
* Experience leading/participating in workshops/lecturing
Knowledge & Skills
* Awareness of moving and handling legislation
* Awareness of health and safety legislation
* Demonstrates an understanding of safeguarding issues
* Ability to work with a child centred approach
* Good communication skills, written and verbal
* Good organisational skills, time management skills and prioritisation skills.
* Ability to work as a team and independently
* Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
* Understands the principle of confidentiality
* Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
* A realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
Physical Requirements
* The physical ability to perform & cope with all aspects of manual handling as demanded by the job role
Other
* Access to a car & ability to use car for business purposes to travel between sites within the Trust or to patients residences, school settings, as demanded by the job role
* Ability to adapt to changes in work routine
* Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Lucy Robertshaw Job title Team Lead -Children's Occupational Therapy Team Email address lucy.robertshaw@cpft.nhs.uk
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