Children’s Occupational Therapist
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Shrewsbury, SY1 3GZ
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 September 2026
3 days left
Job description
We are excited to announce the launch of recruitment to support the development of our new Experts at Hand Team, supporting the local delivery of the ...
As well as the responsibilities listed in the job description the roles will focus on supporting mainstream education settings to deliver effective universal, targeted and targeted + interventions for CYP with Occupational Therapy needs for example through Whole-setting support, Consultative advice, Workforce development, Group interventions and Earlier intervention. [gov.uk] Supporting the continued shift away from purely individual caseload models toward preventative support and capacity-building.
There will be opportunities to work in the core Occupational Therapy service to strengthen your clinical experience and maintain/extend your wider clinical skills and current areas of speciality.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Current registration with the Health Professions Council.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of planning and providing clinical care to adults or children and young people with occupational therapy needs.
- Experience of working in a variety of settings.
- Neurology and rehabilitation experience.
- Some post-qualifying experience.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of undertaking clinical audit.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ongoing awareness of recent developments in practice and research including NSFs/NICE guidelines.
- Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well informed manner.
- Good knowledge of occupational therapy core skills and processes.
- Demonstration of knowledge of child development.
- Previous experience of delivering programmes of care.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
- Understanding of Clinical governance and risk management and their implications for the service.
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
20 August 2026
Last checked
24 August 2026
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