Job Description

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust's Children's Occupational Therapy Team provides a range of community-based health services for children in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin, aged 0 -18.



We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our team for the next year to support a project funded by the Change Programme for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Shropshire Primary school hubs for children with additional needs. There will also be an opportunity to join the other clinical OT teams.



Are you looking for experience of working within children's community occupational therapy services, assessing and treating children with a range of functional needs?



We offer good training opportunities with a strong emphasis on continuing professional development through appraisal and supervision. The successful applicant will be part of an enthusiastic and friendly team of children's therapists and assistants. The team is highly supportive with a commitment to improving to quality and productivity and there are ongoing opportunities to contribute to service development.



Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.



You will need to have a sound knowledge of assessments and interventions used with children across a range of needs or be able to demonstrate that you have transferable skills from working with adults .



You will need to be familiar with report writing and be able to evidence that you have used goal setting and outcome measures within your practice.



You should be able to evidence that you have the developed skills that may be required to liaise with multidisciplinary teams of health, education, and social care professionals.



Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.



Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.



Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.



Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.



Please see the and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.