Do you like working with children in the community, both at home and at school?
We are looking for a qualified Occupational Therapist to join the Children's Integrated Therapy team. Working as part of a locality team, managing your own caseload as part of the wider Service delivery to the community and schools providing Specialist Occupational Therapy for children and young people aged 0 - 19 years across Oxfordshire in a range of settings.
This position gives you the opportunity to support the community within the South of Oxfordshire with bases in Wallingford and Abingdon., The post holder will be part of the Children's Integrated Therapy team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy for children and young people with a range of needs including complex disability. They will have responsibility for their own caseload, as an autonomous practitioner, adapting their approach to meet the needs of the child in a range of settings including patient's own homes, clinics, early years settings and schools.
You will work with the professional leads and team leaders to ensure an efficient, high quality therapy service is delivered which is evidence-based and centred around the needs of the child/young person. Working jointly with other members of the multi-disciplinary team including Education, Social and Health Care, you will support the EHCP process and the delivery of recommended provision within a variety of pathways.
In addition, you may provide line management and clinical leadership for non-qualified staff working at lower grades., + A small, friendly, supportive team
+ Regular line-management and professional supervision
+ Personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development
+ Access to training to further develop your skills both internally within OHT and linking with external providers
+ Mentoring and coaching
+ Structured induction period
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both 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.
+ We're advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, 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 in order 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.
+ 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
+ A qualified Occupational Therapist with passion and drive for developing your clinical skills in a changeable environment.
+ A keen interest in implementing latest evidence-base.
+ Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing initiative and promoting new ideas on how to improve the service.
+ Be compassionate, caring and creative with excellent communication skills.
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 so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
+ 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
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