Advanced Children's Occupational Therapist

This post is a fixed term 12 month contract to cover maternity leave. If you feel you don't have all the knowledge and experience required for this post we would still very much encourage you to contact the service to discuss your position further.
Stockport Community Children's Occupational Therapy service has undergone an exciting period of transformation, resulting in reduced waiting times for those referred to the service.
The team's current focus is to ensure a high quality service is delivered to those children and their families who are experiencing physical health difficulties, which impacts on their day to day function.
Job Summary:
To provide an advanced specialist OT service to the children referred to the service and be a named sub-service lead.
To work as a member of a team, providing specialist assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children with varied and complex difficulties.
To liaise with health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary carers and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service
To provide a specialist service to children either in their own homes or nurseries, mainstream schools, Resource Units and Special Schools and clinics with a range of complex special needs as required, To be the named lead for a specialist area of the service and devise and implement appropriate clinical guidelines and patient pathways associated with this area.
To be responsible for the screening and allocating of new referrals into the service within your named specialist area.
To act as a point of contact for colleagues and other professionals in your specialist area.
To perform advanced therapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
To be responsible for your own caseload and a defined area of the service, and provide support/supervision/training to colleagues working in your specialist area.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
Supervise, educate and assess the performance of Students (this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification).
Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team's clinical practice within each rotation. Make recommendations to clinical team leader for changes to practice. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service guidelines.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you'll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four 'specialist' hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a 'specialist' hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values 'We Care, We Respect, We Listen' are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: 'Making a difference every day.' They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear, We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population., Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays


• NHS pension scheme membership


• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further


• NHS Staff discounts


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt


• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice