Childrens Occupational Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wishes to develop specialist skills in Paediatrics within a supportive service. We are a dynamic, innovative and friendly team who report high levels of job satisfaction.

We offer a professionally led service with direct support from an OT Clinical Lead Specialist, monthly in-service team training, effective supervision and External Training opportunities through the Trust. We are located within easy commuter links from central London/Hertfordshire.

This is a full time, mixed role post. Spending three days in the NHS Community Children's team and 2 days in Durants School OT Team.

Durant's is a secondary school for Autism. The role will include staff/parent training and class-based provision as well as individual work.

For the community, you will sit within a dynamic multi professional team working in an integrated approach with multi-agency partners. The postholder will hold a mixed caseload of 0-18 year olds working in clinic, homes and mainstream schools/nurseries.

We are an innovative team, committed to evidence-based practice; you will have the opportunity to gain skills in CO-OP, M-CIMT and Occupational Coaching.

The successful candidate will be committed to occupationally focused, family centred and evidence-based care.

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To provide a high standard Occupational Therapy service to children aged 0-18years referred to Enfield Children's Occupational Therapy Department.

To contribute to and lead on aspects of planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Children's Occupational Therapy Service.

To be responsible for a defined caseload of children in the community, clinics and Durants school.

To work within the Durants OT schools' team to develop and provide Occupational Therapy services for students who attend Durants School (a maintained special school for students with ASD, 11-19 years) both at home and school.

To provide high quality child centred, occupationally focused assessment and intervention for children on the caseload.

To work with the OT team and school Leadership to plan and develop the OT service into Durants school working at a Universal, Targeted and Specialist level.

To work as an autonomous practitioner with access to supervision.

To supervise, appraise and train students and junior staff as required.

To work effectively and flexibly within an interdisciplinary framework in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.

To be flexible to the demands of the service in regard to location of work and area of clinical specialism.

The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield.

In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.