CYPS Occupational Therapist

Job overview

This post is fixed term for 12 months. The post holder will work in collaboration with team colleagues 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. The post holder will:

Independently manage a specialist clinical caseload with support and supervision provided by senior staff via various methods e.g. face to face contact, email, telephone. This will include provide clinical assessment and the delivery of treatment programmes for children and young people with a diverse range of physical healthcare needs

Consolidate undergraduate clinical experience, develop independent clinical practice, participating in continuing professional development

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).

Gloucestershire has a population of approximately 137,000 children and young people which is 22.9% of the total county population. As part of an integrated Directorate, Children & Young People's Service (CYPS) covers 32 areas of different service delivery, covering both mental health, physical health and learning disabilities to support children and young people from birth until they fully transition to adult services.

Job description

• Will work under the close supervision of a clinical supervisor as well as be supported by their designated line manager
• 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. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice. This will include:
• Providing a holistic clinical/health assessment and delivery intervention programmes for children and young people with a range of needs. Care planning will utilise a range of treatments, skills and options for use in both the home, community and school setting.
• Personalised and coproduction approach will be offered when working with families, parents and carers
• This includes consideration and identification of safeguarding needs and taking further action where required.
• Clinical care will take a trauma informed approach with knowledge and understanding of Adverse Child Experience (ACES) that may be impacting on presenting needs.
• Undertaking comprehensive assessment/formulation of children and young people (including diagnostic where required), using investigative, analytical and effective clinical reasoning skills. Demonstrating profession based core skills and competencies including effective clinical decision making and the ability to articulate rationale behind clinical decision making.

Job responsibilities

• As requested, to support continuous improvement of quality and clinical aspects of service provisionthrough robust audit, Quality Improvement (QI), evaluation, system change and innovation. This will:
• Reflect local demographic & health needs and priorities and contributing to addressing and reducing health inequalities.
• Implement learning from successes, setbacks & continuous improvement cycles
• Champion inclusivity and the recognition that personalised care is key to meeting the range of differing needs of children and young people within Gloucestershire.
• Champion opportunities to develop digitally enabled care throughout the clinical pathway
• Contribute to the implementation of robust and reportable clinical outcome measures to enhance clinical service delivery
• Support the team as a Band 5 to ensure clinical delivery is managed through robust processes and pathways, including reflecting key principles and deliverables within the Care Aims Framework/ THRIVE/Levels of Intervention or other models of delivery
• Deputise for CYPS Band 6s when required.
• Contribute to providing out of hours services if requested by CYPS Management
• As delegated, to complete tasks including audit, deep dive or other evaluative review.
• Uphold team/service based Standard Operational Procedures/Operational Handbooks
• Be accountable for maintaining and developing own profession based skills, knowledge & core competencies by specific standards and Code of Conduct. This will be through regular continuing professional development (CPD) activities including reflective practice, maintenance of a personal portfolio and the attendance of relevant training courses as identified within annual appraisal process

A valid Driving Licence is essential for this post.

About the organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 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.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity 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.

Person specification

Other Requirements

Essential

• A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential
• Some experience and/or knowledge regarding delivering evidence based/ best practice clinical interventions within childrens community healthcare setting

Desirable

• Awareness and some experience of working across agencies and demonstrate commitment to partnership working with all key stakeholders

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Degree in Occupational Therapy

Desirable

• Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CYPS field or skill

Supporting documents

• Band 5 CYPS OT job spec.pdf (PDF, 417 KB)