Job Introduction
We are looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and supportive West Essex Integrated Therapies Team covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest. We offer a high level of support for our Band 5 Therapists and will ensure you are able to continue and develop your skills and knowledge with regular supervision, support and guidance.
You will join our award winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we are trail blazing a new integrated partnership model with Barnardo’s; a model that drives efficiencies so we can put more people in our services, spending time with children and families to improve health outcomes in the local community.
One of our recent Band 5’s said “Joining this team has been one of the best decisions. I have received an overwhelming amount of support and truly feel like a valued member of the team. This team’s hard work, dedication, professionalism, and quality of care is immeasurable.”
We would encourage applicants to contact us to discuss the role further. Please contact Sarah Eaton via email sarah.eaton@hcrgcaregroup.com.
Main Responsibility
As an Occupational Therapist you will offer support to children and young people, their families and other service users.
You will work closely with colleagues in our Pre-Birth to 19 years team and our Specialist Children’s Services, including our innovative JADES (Autism assessment and early support) pathway.
You will also work with other partners in Health, Education and Social Care to to allow children to participate in daily life and inspire them to reach their full potential.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Supporting the Occupational Therapy Team’s specialist intervention through management of a small caseload that would include: completion of individual assessments, school visits, report writing and development of home programmes.
- Working alongside the Band 6 and Band 7 Occupational Therapists within specialist provision settings, to assess, review and order specialist equipment to support children’s function and provide interventions within the school setting.
- Co-facilitating targeted parent education workshops to families of children who have been referred to the Occupational Therapy Team
- Co-facilitating targeted school education workshops around sensory processing and gross and fine motor skill development.
- Facilitating targeted Occupational Therapy group sessions at different sites across West Essex to support the development of children’s skills and function.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a Degree or post graduate degree level qualification in Occupational Therapy.
You will also be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
You will have access to regular clinical supervision and ongoing continued professional development including external clinical networks.
You will be part of team who recognises and celebrates clinical excellence steered by evidence-based practice.
Package Description
You will be a valued Paediatric Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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