Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist

**A Cover Letter is required alongside your CV when applying for this job**

Are you an innovative Occupational Therapist ready to make your mark in a dynamic disability charity?

• £37,152 – £43,994 per year, dependent on experience (pro-rata)
• 30 days annual leave, with 3 days to be taken around Christmas (pro-rata)
• Permanent, part-time (15–22.5 hours per week) with flexible working arrangements, including some availability during school holidays, weekends, and bank holidays. Full-time considered.
• Based at 143 Coppetts Road, London N10 1JP

We’re seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about delivering clinical leadership to our OT team and high-quality support to children and young people with a wide range of physical, learning, and social needs. This is the job for you if you have some experience of working with children or are freshly graduated with an interest in developing your skills in Paediatric Occupational Therapy.

As part of our supportive, multidisciplinary team (MDT), you’ll work closely with families to complete joint multidisciplinary assessments, develop tailored treatment plans, and review progress together. You’ll be a confident, empathetic communicator who builds strong relationships and delivers expert advice, assessment, training, and intervention programmes. You will have a strong interest in clinical leadership and a passion to support children working with a multidisciplinary team.

You’ll need to be HCPC registered and an RCOT member, with proven experience or interest supporting children with diverse needs such as cerebral palsy, developmental delay, genetic conditions, and sensory processing challenges. Strong IT skills (MS Office and clinical databases) and confident report writing are essential.

Flexibility is key — as you will be required to work with a complex and variable caseload along with a passionate team working at our clinic between Tuesday to Saturday. You’ll also contribute to clinical and peer supervision and provide guidance to junior staff members, students and Therapy Assistants where required.

In return, you’ll join a unique and vibrant children’s therapy centre where your clinical expertise and creativity can truly make a difference.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

**A Cover Letter is required alongside your CV when applying for this job**

Please also visit our website to download the full job pack https://cpotential.org.uk/specialist\-paediatric\-occupational\-therapist\-job\-vacancy\-2/

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

· Provide clinical and managerial leadership to the Occupational Therapy service, inspiring and empowering therapists across the MDT to deliver an excellent patient experience.

· Lead day-to-day operational planning and delivery of Occupational Therapy services, ensuring a safe and effective clinical service in partnership with the Consultant Occupational Therapist and Clinical Services Manager.

· Support the Clinical Services Manager with service development and improvement projects, driving innovation and focusing on quality of care and patient outcomes.

· Promote staff development—both clinical and non-clinical—acting as a role model and working closely with other service leads, consultants, and the Clinical Services Manager.

· Provide aspirational clinical leadership to therapists, students, and junior staff, ensuring services are evidence-based, robust, and responsive.

· Deliver high standards of advanced Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions for children and adolescents, working with families to support integrated care across the charity.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Clinical

· To maintain and develop specialist assessment and intervention skills, including knowledge of appropriate specialist aids and equipment relevant to practice.

· To manage a clinical caseload in line with service priorities and management responsibilities, including the development of new specialist services.

· To be responsible for planning, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based Occupational Therapy interventions, using recognised outcome measures (e.g., COPM, GAS).

· To review therapy programmes and adapt interventions and goals as appropriate.

· To ensure the involvement of the family/carer, the client, education staff, and other professionals in therapy planning.

· To work closely with the MDT to provide integrated packages of care, actively contributing to joint assessments, reviews, and service development projects.

· To represent the service at multi-agency meetings, e.g., EHCP and annual reviews, ensuring effective communication with all stakeholders.

· To undertake advanced Occupational Therapy assessments of children with neurological conditions, developmental delay, or complex needs, applying advanced clinical reasoning to design management plans.

· To assess client/carer understanding, gain valid consent, and set jointly agreed goals, working within legal frameworks for those lacking capacity.

· To contribute to Occupational Therapy research and development, in line with organisational priorities.

· To supervise and support qualified therapists, assistants, students, and volunteers, and to explain the impact of Occupational Therapy to funders, visitors, and other stakeholders.

· To contribute to, develop, and deliver training packages for colleagues, professionals, and parents/carers.

· To collaborate across the organisation (e.g., communications, marketing, fundraising) to promote services and strengthen partnerships with external agencies.

· To maintain accurate, up-to-date clinical records and reports in line with HCPC, RCOT, and organisational standards.

· To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, accountable for clinical risk and professional conduct.

· To reflect on and evaluate own service delivery, accessing supervision and professional support on a planned basis.

Professional

· To undertake delegated tasks from the line manager, including leading on service initiatives and policy development.

· To participate in continuous professional development through training, supervision, peer support, and maintaining HCPC & RCOT registration.

· To adhere to professional codes of conduct and organisational policies, including safeguarding, consent, confidentiality, GDPR, and data protection.

· To maintain high standards of written and electronic record-keeping using clinical systems (e.g., Cliniko).

· To undertake data collection and audits as directed and make recommendations to the Clinical Services Manager.

· To ensure compliance with local and national guidelines, policies, and procedures, including risk assessments.

· To represent the Occupational Therapy service and MDT positively, promoting coordinated, integrated service delivery.

· To develop links with professional agencies and voluntary groups to identify support services for clients.

· To lead and contribute to service projects, audits, and policy implementation as directed.

· To complete appraisals, reviews, and related documentation in a timely manner.

· To implement safeguarding responsibilities in line with local and national policy.

· To reflect on clinical practice, participate in appraisals, and maintain a professional portfolio.

· To complete mandatory training and attend study days in line with organisational policy.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

1. All employees are required to actively contribute towards the organisations’ clinical governance systems, taking responsibility as appropriate for quality standards and work towards the continuous improvement in clinical and service quality.

2. Administer and organise own work to ensure that it is accurate and meets quality targets, reasonable deadlines, and reporting requirements.

3. Adhere to all CPotential’s standards, policies and procedures.

4. Be responsible for personal learning and development to support the learning and development of others and the whole organisation.

5. Ensure all work is legally and regulatory compliant and follow best practice, including in the areas of ethical due diligence, GDPR, privacy, and marketing consent.

6. Demonstrate CPotential’s values of being professional, honest, reliable, collaborative, integrated, inclusive, curious, innovative, approachable and adaptable in your conduct when representing the charity.

7. Be responsible for your own health and safety, your colleagues and supporters, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and internal policies.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. Job descriptions should be regularly reviewed to ensure they are an accurate representation of the post. This job description is not intended to be a contractual document and may be amended from time to time in line with the needs of the organisation.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

· Degree in Occupational Therapy

· HCPC / RCOT Registered

· Evidence of experience / post graduate training and education or master’s level or equivalent and CPD relevant to Speciality area

· Evidence of continuous and current professional and academic development relevant to clinical field.

Desirable

· Leadership / Management training and/or experience

· Membership of relevant professional groups/ relevant special interest groups

· Experience of multidisciplinary working.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

· To lead, inspire and motivate team members

· Expert clinical reasoning skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to management of relevant clinical area

· Strong interpersonal skills - observation, listening and empathy

· Excellent communication skills to develop robust therapeutic rapport with children, young people and their families and adapt to complex communication difficulties

· Ability to build effective relationships with other professionals

· Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with ability to prioritise own clinical and non-clinical workload

· Ability to discuss, write and present information in a clear and logical manner, and to keep accurate and legible client notes

· Understand the legal responsibilities of the role

· Up to date with evidence-based practice, new research and CPD

· Able to work under own initiative and within the role boundaries

· Competent IT skills to enable effective data collection, report writing and notes

· Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability of approach

· Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance

· Demonstrate ability to be a good team member within an integrated MDT

· Understanding of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders in the service area.

· Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools, intervention planning and outcome measures relevant to the client group

· Ability to organise own supervision

· Professional maturity.

General

· This role requires an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check

· Flexible working pattern, including some evening/weekend/bank holiday working when required, as well as intensive blocks during school holidays.

· Willing to undertake further training and development.

STAFF BENEFITS

As a CPotential member of staff, you are one of the charity’s most important assets. We want you to love working for us and to develop personally and professionally while you’re with us to give us your best.

Holiday

It’s important to recharge your batteries, so we offer a generous holiday allowance, in addition to Public Holidays.

Learning and development

We offer life-changing learning to the children and young people we work with, and we value your learning just as much. All staff can access in-house training, and we budget for external training too.

Family support

We offer a range of benefits to support family life, including parental leave and compassionate leave when needed.

Pension scheme

We offer the NEST pension scheme, of which new staff members are enrolled after three months of employment.

Employee Assistance Programme

It isn’t in anyone’s best interests if you have issues that are keeping you awake at night. We subscribe to an Employee Assistance Programme, so that you can access 24-hour support for things that are bothering you, whether at work or home.

Westfield Health Cash Plan

Healthcare with Westfield Health provides cash reimbursement for a selection of health therapies including optical, dental, osteopathy, and physiotherapy. Option to add family members at an additional cost. Offered to staff employed with us for a minimum of 12 months.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £37,152.00-£43,994.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Application question(s):

• Please briefly explain any experience you have of working with children with a variety of needs including cerebral palsy, developmental delay, genetic disorders and sensory processing difficulties?
• Please confirm that you are HCPC registered and an RCOT member? If not, please explain your situation.

Work Location: In person