Occupational Therapist - Band 6

The post holder will work in collaboration with the CYPS Leads to deliver safe, efficient, high quality and effective services by providing strong clinical leadership and ensuring alignment of team based priorities with the Directorate and Trust priorities and values.

Independently manage a specialised clinical caseload of children/young people and their families,

Provide clinical assessment, consultation, advice and the delivery of treatment programmes for children and young people with a diverse range of physical healthcare needs

Work within a variety of setting such as community, homes, schools, nurseries, hospital ward & designated Clinics. The service provides a blended offer of delivery including Face2Face and a digital offer (Attend Anywhere).

Contribute to ongoing service improvement initiatives

Adopt corporate, clinical governance and best practice principles within service delivery

Demonstrating a commitment that the "voice" and lived experience of the child and young person is at the heart of all CYPS decision making and clinical care planning.

Main duties of the job

Provide a range of health care based assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) and their families/carers within the designated team.

o Providing a holistic clinical/health assessment, consultation, advice and the delivery of intervention programmes for children and young people with a diverse range of needs.

o Clinical care will take a trauma informed approach with knowledge and understanding of Adverse Child Experience (ACES) that may be impacting on presenting needs

o Undertaking comprehensive and accurate assessment/formulation of children and young people (including diagnostic where required), using investigative, analytical and effective clinical reasoning skills

o Demonstrate effective profession based core skills and competencies including effective clinical decision making and articulating rationale behind decision making.Contributing to team based referral screening/Front Door pathways

o Providing effective and safe clinical risk assessments & risk management planning as part of routine clinical work

o Undertaking accountability, responsibility and independent managing a clinical caseload of children/young people and their families.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;


• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;


• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;


• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative


Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.