# Advanced Children's Occupational Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** West Bromwich
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T10:53:23.185Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/West_Bromwich/Sandwell_West_Birmingham_NHS_Trust/Paediatrics/Paediatrics-v8044935
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8044935?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.swbh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Children's Therapies is a supportive and well established, integrated  team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists working across a range of community settings including early years clinics, mainstream and special schools, within Sandwell.

We are looking for experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapists to take a lead role in developing and delivering our service provision  into schools using a tiered model approach.

### Main duties of the job

To provide universal, targeted and specialist support to children and young people referred to the service .

To work with parents and carers to ensure they are confident and competent to implement advice / therapy strategies into the child's daily routine.

To contribute to Education Health and Care assessments and provide written reports outlining abilities needs and required support.

To provide leadership, supervision and support for  junior staff and colleagues within the wider team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what the role entails

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of conditions and potential impact on children’s occupational performance
- Knowledge of government directives that influence the provision of children’s services
- Excellent written skills for the purposes of report writing, designing training packages and contributing to policies

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of a range of post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings, with a range of paediatric conditions and experience of delivering a range of appropriate, evidence-based interventions
- Experience of managing and prioritising a case-load.
- Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and non-professional.
- Experience of participating in clinical service development in response to local and national priorities involving audit, quality initiatives, research and user feedback.
- Experience of working with assistants, students, newly qualified therapists and others as appropriate.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Relevant professional degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration

## Documents

- [person spec (pdf, 216.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333726)
- [job description (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333725)
- [swb- sustainability (pdf, 49.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2657)
- [candidate briefing pack (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2982)
- [swb reward & recognition guide (pdf, 704.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2604)
- [flexible working document – healthier futures (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2437)

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