Children's Occupational Therapy - Developing Sensory Specialist

Due to new increased financial investment in the Occupational Therapy service, we are expanding our clinical pathways to offer increased support for children and young people in Buckinghamshire.

We are recruiting an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with young people with sensory processing differences to join our Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies Service in Buckinghamshire. This post is a result of exciting and innovative service developments and redesign in the Occupational Therapy service.

This post will work closely with our Clinical Lead for Autism and Sensory Processing to support children and young people where sensory processing differences are having a significant impact on their ability to participate in school and home life from ages 0-19 years.

To support your development, we are committed to providing the post holder with external training and internal training from our Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioners and our Clinical Specialist in this field.

The Occupational Therapy Service forms part of an Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies Service working closely with Speech and Language Therapy and Physiotherapy as well as wider children and young people’s services including Health Visitors, Community Nurses for Children with a Learning Disability, Community Paediatricians and School Nurses.

• To provide high quality occupational therapy, targeted and specialist advice, training, assessment and intervention.
• To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCOT professional standards and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust directives.
• To make appropriate clinical decisions following universal and targeted advice in line with service pathways.
• To make appropriate clinical decisions following specialist assessments, including differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment and levels of therapy input.
• To act as a specialist consultant to Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) and Inclusion Managers, Teachers, Learning Support Assistants, and parents within mainstream schools.
• To train, work in collaboration with, and monitor the work of OT Therapy Assistants within the context of skill-mix therapy.
• To participate in the development of local, regional, and national clinical guidelines, informed by evidence, for clinical specialism.

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.