Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

• To manage a complex caseload within the Southern Hub (London) Gender Service using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach and current evidence base to assess, treat, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy interventions.
• To support and advise colleagues within the hospital and community in the management of complex cases requiring advanced clinical reasoning.
• To support with clinical Occupational Therapy developments, audit and research within the service.
• To be responsible for the maintenance and development of own CPD identifying and contributing to the evidence base of Occupational Therapy and the Gender Service.
• To educate Occupational Therapy Students on practice placements.

Essential

• Our Always values

Essential

• Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration
• Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in specialist area.

Essential

• Significant clinical experience in paediatrics at Senior level.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and post registration education and training.
• Knowledge of specialist paediatric approaches in neurodevelopment.
• Experience with children or adolescents with complex neurodevelopmental presentation and preferably with experience of children who are gender questioning
• Experience of audit.
• Ability to supervise junior staff and students.
• High standard of performance in a range of neuro developmental and general paediatric skills.

Desirable

• Experience of research

Essential

• Specialist knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process relating to client centred practice.
• Specialist knowledge, application and analysis of standardised assessment tools.
• To carry out standardised and non-standardised assessments and advise on intervention and management to facilitate and promote functional independence.
• Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities.
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services.
• Ability to manage individual and team performance.
• Ability to promote clinical excellence in self and others.
• Demonstrate clinical leadership skills and excellent team building skills.
• Proven organisational and management skills.
• Demonstrates ethical reasoning and critical reflection.
• Committed to improve the experience of children, families and carers, appreciating complexity of context, culture of diversity.
• Proven experience in the training, teaching and supervision of others.
• Proven experience in developing and providing education and teaching programmes to other professionals and students.
• Ability to apply Clinical Governance principles to practice.
• Implementation of national initiatives and legislation relating to Health and Social Care in relation to Occupational Therapy.
• Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.
• Ability to manage and recognise differences of opinion in both patient related and inter professional settings, coping positively with inter-professional tensions/ barriers.
• Able to positively manage exposure to patients and environments which may be highly distressing, antagonistic, open to aggression and unpleasant.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate and manage teams through change positively.
• Computer literacy.