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Paediatric Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 27 July 2025
- This is a fixed term/secondment opportunity and an opportunity to develop or extend your competencies in working with children and young people (0-19 years). You will provide a high standard of Occupational service working as an autonomous practitioner delivering specialist assessment and therapeutic management of children across Northern Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Scunthorpe). To take responsibility for a caseload of children 0-19 years including those with equipment needs and within a variety of settings.
- Opportunity to take part in or lead service developments to further own and teams clinical practice to shape this service.
- To develop skills and knowledge through participation in any development programmes and competency framework
Main duties of the job
CLINICAL
1. Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients (0-19 years) including those with diverse or complex presentations or multiple pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills and a range of assessment techniques including manual assessment to provide an accurate diagnosis.
2. Work within the agreed 'core offer' of service delivery and ensure that there is a focus on achieving agreed outcomes and working towards discharge right from the start of involvement.
3. To deal with emotive and stressful situations in a calm and sensitive way, using effective communication skills to establish rapport and maintain a partnership approach with children, young people and their families.
4. To demonstrate and apply a broad level of understanding of the effect of disability and recommend environmental adaptations, specialist equipment and strategies to assist.
5. Evaluate progress, reassess and alter intervention programmes as required.
6. To write reports for a range of purposes and audiences as required e.g. child protection, Education Health and Care Plan, Single Assessment.
7. Represent the Children's Therapy/ Occupational Therapy Service and/or individual patients at MDT meetings t
8. To liaise effectively with all those involved in the child or young person's care and delivery of their individual plan.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person SpecificationQualifications
- Degree/MSc in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Post graduate study in appropriate clinical areas e.g. MSc modules in Paediatrics
- Relevant accredited courses related to clinical areas in adult or paediatric OT
Knowledge and experience
- Post graduate experience in Occupational Therapy across a range of clinical areas (adults or paediatrics) including: Neurological, community and equipment experience
- Experience of working with at least one complex clinical pathway (adult or paediatrics)
- Experience in being part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team
- Post graduate experience in paediatrics
- Experience with a variety of specialised paediatric equipment
Interpersonal and communciation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Experience with working with children and families
Other
- oExperience of clinical education of students, assistants or other staff
- oAble to demonstrate good personal organisational skills
- oAbility to work from both hospital sites as required to meet the demands of the service
- Experience of leading on a project at post graduate level
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.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata
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