Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist, Universal Therapy Service
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist – Universal Therapy Service Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time – 30 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-4114
Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Tynemouth Road Health Centre Town London Salary £55,524 – £62,652 HCAS Outer London Salary period Yearly
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Haringey Universal Therapy Service (HUTS) with an interest in early intervention, workforce development and service innovation.
HUTS includes Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy and supports children aged 0–19 years, with a strong emphasis on early intervention and the 0–5 age group. This is an exciting opportunity to develop skills in universal practice, service development and project work.
HUTS forms part of the Haringey Children’s Therapy Team: a large, friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team based at Tynemouth Road Health Centre.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as part of HUTS to develop and deliver a universal occupational therapy offer for children under 5 with functional needs related to sensory and motor development. This will involve working closely with professionals across health, education, early years settings and community groups, as well as supporting parents and carers directly.
HUTS is an evolving service, with established elements of the offer and exciting opportunities for service development, innovation and project work.
The postholder will be supported by the HUTS Clinical Lead and will work collaboratively to develop the service, including identifying priorities, implementing new initiatives and evaluating impact.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration to Practice
Knowledge and experience
- Significant experience working at a specialist clinical level with supervisory responsibilities.
Education and qualifications
- Evidence of CPD in specialist area
Skills and abilities
- Highly developed clinical skills and post-graduate experience in working with children with additional needs focusing on childhood occupation, using standardised assessments and implementing specialised treatment approaches
- Well established knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions relevant to clinical area
Knowledge and experience
- Experience of using digital technology to provide information, advice and training
- Experience contributing to or leading service development or quality improvement initiatives
- Experience implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for children in homes, early years settings and/or mainstream schools
- Experience of planning and implementing programmes of support and therapeutic interventions for children in specialist area.
- Experience of collaborative, multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
- Experience developing or delivering training for non-specialist workforce (e.g. HVs, early years staff)
- Experience training parents/carers and staff from other agencies in the identification and management of children with additional needs
- Experience of managing demand and setting priority criteria
- Experience of implementing the principles of clinical governance in clinical practice (e.g. clinical audits)
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant national policies, legislation and guidance relevant to clinical specialism
- Knowledge of early intervention approaches and workforce development models
Skills and abilities
- Ability to translate clinical knowledge into practical strategies for non-specialist staff
- Strong skills in influencing and supporting change in other professionals’ practice, including workforce development approaches
- Ability to identify patterns of need and respond at a population/service level
- Ability to carry out a range of assessments to support differential diagnosis and evaluation of progress
- Excellent Interpersonal skills with regard to individual client management (including empathy, observation and interview skills)
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team including excellent communication, liaison, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Ability to be an effective team member and assume leadership responsibilities
- Ability to negotiate and deal with conflict
- Ability to manage complaints and prevent escalation wherever possible
- Excellent analytical, reflective and problem solving skills
- Ability to present effective verbal and written reports for clients, carers, colleagues and managers
- Ability to organise and prioritise timetables and workload of junior colleagues, assistants and students
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and be flexible to demands
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant national policies, legislation and guidance relevant to clinical area
- Ability to devise and deliver training and to provide programmes of support to parents/carers taking into account cultural and linguistic backgrounds and disability
- Ability to devise and deliver training to professionals within Health, Education and Social Care
- Ability to use standardised outcome measures and set up non standardised outcome measures that are appropriate for the clinical area and client group
Knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of universal OT service delivery models and how these link to targeted and specialist pathways
- Highly specialist knowledge of a range of assessment or screening tools and procedures
- Well established knowledge of a range of universal, targeted and highly specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to occupational therapy
- Ability to cope with and empathise with distressed families and children
- Ability to work as a team player and to encourage team working
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form –
- Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
- Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes –
- Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
- If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
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- Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information –
- You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
- Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
- In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
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 Terri Freeman Job title Clinical Lead for HUTS Email address terri.freeman1@nhs.net Additional information
Please do not hesitate to contact Terri if you have any questions about the role.
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