Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 848-BHC-269-26
- Employer
- Bromley Healthcare
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Phoenix Children's Centre
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/10/2026
Employer heading
Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of HCAS
Full-time hours 37.5 per week
Main duties of the job
The Children`s Occupational Therapy Service provides high-quality occupational therapy to children and young people 0-18 years old, with difficulties in play, self-care and/or school occupations due to a variety of conditions. Occupational Therapists within the service work autonomously, seeing children in a variety of community healthcare and educational settings including clients’ homes, clinics, schools, nurseries and specialist educational settings. Children and young people referred to the service may have multiple and complex conditions.
As an experienced practitioner, the Highly Specialist Children`s Occupational Therapist will manage a team of occupational therapists who will work to build capacity in mainstream schools through universal and targeted work, while also holding a complex clinical caseload of specialist cases. The Occupational Therapy lead will be expected to oversee as well as support the team in managing the offer for schools and early year settings while ensuring children who need specialist care get timely assessments. The postholder will also offer specialist support and education to healthcare colleagues and other agencies involved in the child’s care.
The Highly Specialist Children`s Occupational Therapist will provide leadership and line management within the service, including recruitment and retention, appraisal and performance/ absence management.
Working for our organisation
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
1. To provide occupational therapy consultation, advice, and support to schools through the Experts at Hand service delivery model, working collaboratively with education settings, families, and professionals to build capacity, promote early identification, inclusion, participation, and support the implementation of evidence-based strategies that meet the functional needs of children and young people.
2. Manage a complex clinical caseload, using evidence-based practice and client centred care, undertaking assessment, interpretation of assessment results, evaluation, meaningful goals, treatment, and advice.
3. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non-standardised assessments in order to help contribute and formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary outcomes and goals in collaboration with the children/ and or family whenever possible.
4. Develop, plan and implement specialist Occupational Therapy treatment programme and strategies to enhance the child’s ability to perform everyday activities and participate in multiple environments through, e.g. verbal and written advice and recommendations, written advice sheets, individual treatment and/or group therapy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma or degree level in Occupational Therapy or equivalent training/study
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, including post registration training/qualifications in relevant specialist areas e.g. sensory integration levels 1 and 2, CO-OP approach, neurodevelopment and complex needs
- Post registration training/qualification in leadership and management, or equivalent experience.
- Comprehensive training in assessment and treatment of children with complex functional needs
- Field Work Educator Course, or equivalent training/experience.
Desirable criteria
- Training specific to EHC process, including report writing and giving evidence at tribunals/hearings
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to autonomously manage a complex caseload within a community paediatric setting.
- Significant, current and relevant clinical skills – either developed in children’s OT or transferable – demonstrating evidence informed practice with an occupation-based focus.
- Excellent working knowledge of child development and varying conditions and the implication for Occupational Therapy.
- Ability to assess the need for, prescribe/recommend and advise on the use of specialist equipment.
- Ability to assess and analyse a child’s functional abilities using standardised and non-standardised methods, in line with best practice.
- Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to empower others in practice and a sound understanding of accountability, delegation and escalation in a clinical setting.
- Excellent written communication skills, including: • detailed reports and contemporaneous note taking • the ability to record and convey actions, decisions, recommendations, etc, accurately, succinctly and within timelines
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience within paediatrics
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience of complex caseload management.
- interventions - including moving and handling and specialist equipment use - for children with a range of difficulties e.g. physical disabilities, multiple and complex conditions, displaying, challenging behaviour, coordination or sensory processing difficulties
- Significant experience in the assessment and provision of EHC reports.
- Excellent understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, EHC plans and related legislation.
- Established knowledge of national policies, procedures and legislation relevant to Children’s OT, including safeguarding.
- Experience of leadership and management, including appraisal and performance/absence management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of attending EHC panels.
- Experience in providing specialist OT school provision
- Experience of leading policy and/or service development
Information Technology and Information Governance
Essential criteria
- Solid IT skills, including use of mobile phone, laptop etc and programmes for service delivery and line management e.g. Microsoft office, internet, email
- Knowledge and experience of using electronic patient/clinical systems, including ordering clinical equipment.
- Experience of electronic diaries and/or rosters
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using EMIS
- Experience of using eRoster
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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