Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Hereford, HR2 9RP
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
13 days left
Job description
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Children's Community Occupational Therapy team. As a Band 7 Chi...
This role is a mix of having your own clinical caseload and providing leadership and management of the Occupational Therapists and support staff within the team to facilitate the development and transformation work.
Whilst working as an autonomous practitioner in the community, within the county of Herefordshire, plan and organise own caseload according to the needs of the children and the service. To provide highly specialist clinical support and supervision to the team.
To use evidence based standardised and non-standardised assessment tools with children, including observations in the most appropriate settings for the child/young person, in order to establish levels of functional ability to inform your practice and intervention.
To agree child focused aims, goals and objectives for all OT intervention.
To design individual therapeutic treatment plans, for children to be carried out either by you or delegated to Occupational Therapy support workers, families, carers or school staff. These interventions will take place in the most relevant environment for the child and their family - the home environment, therapy suite or schools.
See job description for further details.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Significant post graduate experience and CPD relevant to Children's Occupational Therapy / Specialist courses (or equivalent experience)
- Evidence of or willingness to undertake further training at Masters level
Desirable
- Leadership/Management qualification
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of using both standardised and non-standardised assessments in Children's Occupational Therapy
- Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
- Demonstration of knowledge of core and highly specialist Therapy skills
- Broad, developed and advanced knowledge of relevant conditions and therapy interventions
- Extensive evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
- Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
- Able to make independent, sound, advanced clinical decisions and problem solve
- Able to manage and facilitate others in dealing with busy case load and prioritise
- Ability to work autonomously using highly specialist knowledge, skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation pertaining to children
Experience
Essential
- Extensive NHS or equivalent experience in specialist area community, community services & Children's therapy
- Experience of team leadership, management and positive role modelling
- Student practice placement educator and experience of having students
- Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment
- Supervisory experience
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism within the environment that they are working
- Able to demonstrate awareness of own limitations and need to ask for help
- Evidence of ability to communicate effectively including difficult conversations
- Committed to personal and team development
- Ability to adapt and demonstrate flexibility in changing service needs
- Is dynamic and proactive
- Shows evidence of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
- Reliable
Other Factors
Essential
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
- Able to meet physical & moving and handling requirements of post. i.e. re-positioning of a patient, use of moving & handling equipment, approved manual physical movement practices of patient
- Able to deal sensitively and safely with blood and bodily fluids
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First seen
28 August 2026
Last checked
31 August 2026
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