Housing Adaptations Paediatric Occupational Therapist

£31,160-£33,128 pro rata

24.5 Hours per week

Warwickshire County Council requires a dynamic and creative Occupational Therapist to join its cutting edge multi-agency Housing Adaptation Team to be based with our colleague in the NHS Paediatric Community Service.

This is a county wide post and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be a member of the NHS Community Paediatric Occupational Therapy team and will be responsible for providing housing solutions/adaptations for children, working closely with the Housing Environmental Assessment response Team HEART.

The NHS Paediatric Community Occupational Therapy service is a fully integrated team working across health and social care.

You will need excellent communication and team working skills. You will also need to be able to work independently and have an ability to effectively prioritise and manage referrals for adaptations coming into the service. You will require knowledge, skills and experience of either the assessment and adaptation process or working with children.

You will also be required to support junior members of the Occupational Therapy team, Occupational Therapy Assistants and Technical Instructors. Part of this role may also include clinical supervision.

All team members’ benefit from regular and supportive supervision, learning and development opportunities for continued professional development to maximise a practitioner’s skills, knowledge and values.

For full Job Desciption and Person Specification click link here. 

For further information regarding the post, please contact:
Lesley Chaplin Lead for Children’s Occupational Therapy 01926 400001 ext 260 or Mobile 07767 671493

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As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification. 

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce and would particularly welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from the BAME community, disabled people and people from the LGBT+ Community.