Occupational Therapist & Therapies Lead

Acorns Children's Hospice is looking for an Occupational Therapist and Therapies Lead to help shape and develop our therapy services across the organisation. In this newly created role, you'll work in partnership with our Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Allied Health Professionals, leading the development and delivery of high-quality AHP services across Acorns. You'll also lead and support our therapy team across our hospices in Walsall, Worcester and Birmingham, ensuring families receive exceptional, compassionate care wherever they access our services.

Acorns Children's Hospice is looking for an Occupational Therapist and Therapies Lead to help shape and develop our therapy services across the organisation. In this newly created role, you'll work in partnership with our Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Allied Health Professionals, leading the development and delivery of high-quality AHP services across Acorns. You'll also lead and support our therapy team across our hospices in Walsall, Worcester and Birmingham, ensuring families receive exceptional, compassionate care wherever they access our services.

Acorns is recognised as a great place to work because of our people. Our priority is that our people feel valued, whatever their background and experience, and wherever they work.

Acorns Children's Hospice is looking for an Occupational Therapist and Therapies Lead to help shape and develop our therapy services across the organisation.

In this newly created role, you'll work in partnership with our Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Allied Health Professionals, leading the development and delivery of high-quality AHP services across Acorns. You'll also lead and support our therapy team across our hospices in Walsall, Worcester and Birmingham, ensuring families receive exceptional, compassionate care wherever they access our services.

At Acorns Children’s Hospice, we provide specialist palliative care for children, and young people with life-limiting and lifethreatening conditions, and we support their families through every step of their journey, and through transition. Our work is defined by compassion, expertise, and an unwavering belief that every child deserves comfort, dignity, and the chance to experience joy.

As Occupational Therapist and Therapies Lead, you will:

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references. In addition, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of immunisation against specific diseases or confirm their willingness to receive the necessary vaccinations.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation, we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.

If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?

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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.

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