CYPS Specialist Occupational Therapist
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our friendly team providing occupational therapy to children and young people in Gloucestershire.
Children and Young People's Occupational Therapy Services is part of an Integrated Children's Directorate providing services for children and young people with challenges to their physical health, and also those with learning disability and autistic spectrum conditions within health, social care, education and the local acute hospital.
Your role will involve managing a full clinical caseload, providing assessment and intervention programmes for children with a range of needs. Your care planning will utilise a range of treatments, skills, and options for use in the community and school settings.
The role is the perfect opportunity for those who already have experience with children and want to work alongside a supportive team of other children's occupational therapists.
Duties
- HCPC registration and the ability to travel within the county is essential.
- Independently manage a specialist clinical caseload with support and supervision provided by senior staff via various methods e.g., face-to-face contact, email, and telephone.
- This will include providing clinical assessment and the delivery of treatment programmes for children and young people with a diverse range of physical healthcare needs.
- Demonstrate 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.
- The post holder will provide supervision and support to OT Support Workers as appropriate.
- The post holder will liaise with other agencies, including education settings, social care, and voluntary agencies.
- The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services across 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity, and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
About
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys, and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunities to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.
However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Katie Nixon
Job title: CYPS OT Head of Service
Email address: katie.nixon@ghc.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07964 208786
