Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 848-BHC-268-26
- Employer
- Bromley Healthcare
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Phoenix Centre
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £45,953 - £54,254 Inc HCAS Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/10/2026
Employer heading
Children's Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand
NHS AfC: Band 6
Bromley Healthcare, a community interest company, delivers a diverse range of services encompassing community nursing (e.g., district nursing, health visiting, specialist nursing) and therapy services catering to individuals across all age groups. Stemming from the community provider unit of NHS Bromley, we boast extensive experience in serving the Bromley populace over many years.
Working at Bromley Healthcare offers a fulfilling experience. Our distinctive service delivery approach and commitment to hearing every employee's voice ensure a gratifying career journey. As a Social Enterprise, we embrace an innovative approach to healthcare delivery, combining the traditional strengths of the NHS, such as robust training and development opportunities, with the flexibility to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.
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Job overview
Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand
£45,953 - £54,254 Inc HCAS Per annum pro rata
Perm - 37.5 hrs per week
Main duties of the job
1. To work autonomously and without direct supervision in a defined clinical area, recognising professional boundaries and seeking guidance where necessary, but having accountability for own clinical actions.
2. To be responsible for a clinical caseload of paediatric occupational therapy including assessment, interpretation of assessment results, evaluation, treatment, and advice, through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
3. To work with education partners using evidence-based approaches such as coaching, modelling and guiding to enhance capacity in the educational context and support children’s functional participation as part of the OT offer.
4. To provide support and training to educational partners via modelling and setting up of group interventions, workshops, or OT surgeries when needed as part of the OT offer.
5. To carry out assessments and evaluate the child’s occupational performance in context. This may include the use of standardised and non-standardised assessments, observation, interview with parent or carer and/or parent and teacher questionnaires.
6. To develop, plan and implement specialist Occupational Therapy treatment programmes and strategies to enhance the child’s ability to perform everyday activities and participate in multiple environments. This could include verbal and written advice/ recommendations, written advice sheets, individual treatment and/or group therapy.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to supporting your development. You’ll have access to supervision and opportunities to expand your clinical skills within a nurturing and dynamic service.
Bromley Healthcare, as a community interest company, offers an extensive array of services ranging from community nursing, including district nursing and health visiting, to specialised nursing care, along with therapy services catering to individuals across various age groups.
Compensation is contingent upon NHS experience and current banding/pay point.
We provide an outstanding benefits package, which includes pension schemes, discounted gym memberships, a cycle-to-work scheme, access to home furnishings and electronics, access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP), discounts at various high street retailers, eligibility for the Blue Light Card, the opportunity to apply for low-interest personal loans, and an excellent lease car scheme. Additionally, we are continuously striving to enhance our employee benefits offerings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
2. To monitor and review the progress of the child against set targets, modifying the targets and offering specialist advice where appropriate.
3. To undertake moving and handling risk assessments where appropriate.
4. Assess a child’s need for specialist equipment and small aids (e.g. specialist seating, bath aids and toilet aids), advise and recommend/ provide appropriate equipment for use at home, pre-school and school, in line with service criteria.
5. Review and complete adjustments to specialist equipment, e.g. specialist seating, ensuring equipment is appropriate to meet the child functional needs within the identified occupations and to demonstrate use to family and professionals working with the child.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma or degree level in Occupational Therapy or equivalent training/study
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Member of the specialist sections or groups relevant to children's OT.
Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Additional training in the assessment and treatment of children with functional needs.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post registration specialist education – ideally sensory integration training levels 1 and 2
- Practice educator or equivalent
- Additional training in Coaching, OPC, COOP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in community NHS paediatric practice.
- Experience in assessing, planning and delivering occupation focused intervention for children with a range of difficulties e.g. physical disabilities, multiple and complex conditions, displaying, challenging behaviour, coordination or sensory processing difficulties
- Experience of equipment prescription and its principles in the paediatric setting.
- Excellent working knowledge of child development, related conditions and the implications for Occupational Therapy.
- Experience working with schools using evidence-based approaches, providing training and workshops to build capacity.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of upper limb splinting.
- Line management experience.
- Experience in specialist school provision.
- Working knowledge of the SEND agenda and reforms.
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to independently manage a clinical caseload of children with varying needs within a community paediatric setting
- Ability to assess and analyse a child’s functional abilities using standardised and non- standardised methods
- Ability to take an evidence- informed approach to assessments and interventions, using an occupation-based focus
- Ability to line manage others, including appraisal and performance management
- Confidence and competence in relating evidence-based theory to practice.
Information Technology and Information Governance
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills, including the use of Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Competent in use of electronic patient records.
- Ability to use information resources/ portals to order equipment, produce and submit data, reports, etc.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of EMIS
- Experience of TECS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lindsay Pyne
- Job title
- Head of Community AHP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07546653911
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