occupational therapist Harlow, England
Job description
We are looking for a Band 6 Children’s Occupational Therapist to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest, to help us continue to change things for the better.
Are you a caring and innovative Occupational Therapist with skills, working with children and adolescents with a variety of conditions, looking to join a supportive and progressive team? Are you interested in working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with most of our services being rated overall “good” or “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission?
We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our friendly and supportive West Essex Integrated Therapies Team. Full-time and part-time hours considered.
Main ResponsibilitiesYou’ll work closely with our team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, within a diverse multidisciplinary team with other dedicated staff as part of our innovative Child and Family Wellbeing Service. You will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues and access regular supervision with a Band 7 Occupational Therapist and team meetings.
The Ideal CandidateYou’ll use your experience to deliver excellent assessment and treatment to a varied selection of children and young people aged 8-18 with diverse conditions. Therapy will be delivered in clinic, at one of our family hubs or at the child’s home/ school. You’ll care for service users and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice and actively improving the way we work.
You will be a qualified Occupational Therapist with a minimum of two years’ post graduate practice in paediatrics and have experience of working with children and young people in the community. You will have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to service users at every stage of their healthcare journey.
About The CompanyWe 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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Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Pediatric Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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
