Job Introduction
As a Bank Paediatric Occupational Therapy Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued Therapies Team in Surrey, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Flexible Shift Booking – Self-book bank shifts and request time off up to six weeks in advance for a better work-life balance.
- Wagestream Access – Track and access earned wages anytime, avoiding high-interest loans or overdrafts.
- Professional Growth – Gain experience across various services, access free training, and join our Strive for Better professional network.
- 24/7 Well-being Support – Free counselling, legal advice, financial guidance, and career coaching.
- Innovative Culture – Share ideas, apply for national funding, and contribute to service improvements.
- Recognition & Engagement – Nominate colleagues for awards and participate in executive Q&A sessions.
- Commitment to Excellence – Be part of a team with "Good" or "Outstanding" CQC-rated services.
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Paediatric Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team. In this rewarding role, you will support the delivery of high-quality Occupational Therapy services for children with a wide range of developmental, physical, and sensory needs.
Working closely under the supervision of qualified Occupational Therapists, you will contribute to assessment, intervention, and ongoing care, helping children and their families to develop skills and confidence in self-management.
As an integral member of the Paediatric OT team, you will carry out both general and specialist clinical tasks, delivering delegated aspects of therapy care plans and, when appropriate, working as an autonomous practitioner. Your work will span a variety of settings, including health centres, nurseries, specialist schools, and children’s homes, where you will provide hands-on support to aid physical management and functional development.
You will also play a key role in facilitating individual and group therapy sessions, supporting care pathways, and assisting with administrative tasks such as specialist equipment provision.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families and who thrives in a collaborative, child-centred environment. If you are motivated, compassionate, and eager to develop your skills within paediatric therapy, we would love to hear from you.
Main Responsibilities
- Under OT supervision, visit homes, nurseries and schools to review, adjust and arrange appropriate postural management and moving and handling equipment.
- Provide clear instruction to carers on safe use of equipment such as seating, bathing, toileting and sleep systems.
- Plan and deliver individual and group therapeutic activity programmes within therapist-led care frameworks.
- Support parents and carers across a range of multi-agency settings.
- Implement, demonstrate and review intervention programmes for school staff, parents and volunteers, adapting activities and providing training as needed..
- Work at times independently to assess progress, modify programmes and arrange equipment within agreed limits, reporting outcomes to the supervising therapist.
- Communicate routine, complex and sensitive information with tact, using adapted strategies to overcome communication barriers.
- Collaborate with families, carers and professionals, negotiating decisions around client care with support from senior clinicians.
- Share assessment findings and management plans with school staff, carers, families and the wider interdisciplinary team.
Ideal Candidate
- FdSc Health and Social Care (Associate Practitioner)
- Literacy and numeracy skills
- Knowledge and skills acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses, in-house training and experience to diploma level or equivalent
- Clear accurate recording and reporting skills
- Ability to use MS office applications, e-mail, Systmone
- Organisation skills
- Demonstrate ability to work under pressure and use own initiative
- Demonstrate flexible and positive approach to team working and ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Car owner/driver/access to a motor vehicle (role will involve travel to other sites that cannot be easily accessed by public transport means)
- Demonstrate practical, analytical and judgement skills in patient care relevant to care group
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Motivational skills E.g. healthcoaching
- Ability to plan and lead groups
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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