Paediatric Occupational Therapist Specialist: Sponsorship Available

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

Due to significant service investment we are looking for enthusiastic Occupational Therapists to join our friendly Children’s Therapy team in Worcestershire. The successful candidates will be working alongside a dynamic team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners, Specialist Play Nursery Nurses and other health and education professionals providing a community service to children and young people with a variety of needs. The post holders would be based at one of our three bases (located in Kidderminster, Worcester or Bromsgrove) and will be required to travel across the county. The service works closely with mainstream and special schools, child development centres and family hubs as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure children’s needs are identified and supported across the system. It is an exciting time of service development whilst we move towards implementing the balanced system across therapy services and a link therapy model. We are working towards Experts at Hand bringing Occupational Therapy directly into mainstream schools, colleges and nurseries to support children earlier. We are a fantastic team offering a variety of opportunities for learning, CPD, multi-disciplinary working and have a strong focus on supervision.

Various bases in Kidderminster, Worcester and Bromsgrove

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

This exciting role involves being a key member of the Children’s Occupational Therapy leadership and clinical team helping to shape the Experts at Hand model in early years for OT. You will oversee projects and quality improvement initiatives to design and embed support at a universal, targeted and specialist level within early years settings

You will sit within the community OT team providing specialist assessments, interventions and implementing effective outcome measures. You will have responsibility for the clinical leadership of the OT team supporting with clinical supervision, training, service development and embedding clinical pathways.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Diploma/degree in OT
  • Fieldwork educator qualification
  • State registration with HPC
  • Evidence of Post graduate training relevant to specialist job role
  • Completion of specialist courses relevant to job role and client group

Experience

Essential

  • Documented evidence of continuing professional development
  • Supervision, appraisal and line management of junior staff and support staff
  • 6 years post registration experience including at least 2 years within defined speciality
  • Supervision of students at degree and post graduate levels
  • Leadership and 1st Line management experience
  • Experience of audit procedures in an area of speciality at band 6

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 21 October 2026

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