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Salary The Children’s Therapies Team is an integrated therapies team providing Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Specialist Nurse Advisors and Care Co-ordinators to children 0 – 19 years within KCHFT.
We have an exciting Band 5 to Band 6 OT Development Opportunity on a full time permanent basis within both our Early Years and School Years teams. The successful applicant will join our Children’s Therapies East Kent Team based in Canterbury and Thanet and will be supported by Band 7 Clinical Leads within the East Kent team but also others in our North and West Kent localities. We currently offer a hybrid work pattern for staff with face to face sessions offered from clinics, nurseries, schools and also sessions worked remotely from home.
We work closely with colleagues from other health, education and social care teams to provide an integrated team around the child approach.
You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate a range of OT interventions that support children with a range of needs to participate in occupations of childhood.
Develop integrated care plans in partnership with the child, young person and / or family recommending and supporting interventions that are appropriate at a universal, targeted and specialist level.
Actively work as a member of a multi disciplinary and multi-agency teams to provide high quality care to children and young people in line with our care pathways.
Manage a caseload of children on a daily basis that includes children and young people with complex needs.
Participate in clinical supervision and to work as part of an integrated team with Therapy Assistants, OTs, PTs, SLTs, Care Co-ordinators and Specialist Nurse Advisors offering support to colleagues as appropriate to knowledge and skills
Support and make recommendations to senior managers in order to prioritise and focus efforts to drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and statutory requirements.
One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.
Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
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All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 15th of February 2024.
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