Job requirements
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Essential
25 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Training
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, including post registration training/qualifications in relevant specialist areas e.g. sensory integration levels 1 and 2, CO-OP approach, neurodevelopment and complex needs
- Training
Post registration training/qualification in leadership and management, or equivalent experience.
- Training
Comprehensive training in assessment and treatment of children with complex functional needs
- Training
Up to date Moving & Handling training.
- Training
Field Work Educator Course, or equivalent training/experience.
- Experience
Significant post registration experience within paediatrics
- Experience
Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience
Experience of complex caseload management.
- Experience
interventions - including moving and handling and specialist equipment use - for children with a range of difficulties e.g. physical disabilities, multiple and complex conditions, displaying, challenging behaviour, coordination or sensory processing difficulties
- Experience
Significant experience in the assessment and provision of EHC reports.
- Experience
Excellent understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, EHC plans and related legislation.
- Experience
Established knowledge of national policies, procedures and legislation relevant to Children’s OT, including safeguarding.
- Experience
Experience of leadership and management, including appraisal and performance/absence management.
- Qualifications
Educated to diploma or degree level in Occupational Therapy or equivalent training/study
- Specific Skills
Ability to autonomously manage a complex caseload within a community paediatric setting.
- Specific Skills
Significant, current and relevant clinical skills – either developed in children’s OT or transferable – demonstrating evidence informed practice with an occupation-based focus.
- Specific Skills
Excellent working knowledge of child development and varying conditions and the implication for Occupational Therapy.
- Specific Skills
Ability to assess the need for, prescribe/recommend and advise on the use of specialist equipment.
- Specific Skills
Ability to assess and analyse a child’s functional abilities using standardised and non-standardised methods, in line with best practice.
- Specific Skills
Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to empower others in practice and a sound understanding of accountability, delegation and escalation in a clinical setting.
- Specific Skills
Excellent written communication skills, including: • detailed reports and contemporaneous note taking • the ability to record and convey actions, decisions, recommendations, etc, accurately, succinctly and within timelines
- Professional Registration
HCPC registration
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Solid IT skills, including use of mobile phone, laptop etc and programmes for service delivery and line management e.g. Microsoft office, internet, email
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Knowledge and experience of using electronic patient/clinical systems, including ordering clinical equipment.
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Experience of electronic diaries and/or rosters
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Training
Training specific to EHC process, including report writing and giving evidence at tribunals/hearings
- Experience
Experience of attending EHC panels.
- Experience
Experience in providing specialist OT school provision
- Experience
Experience of leading policy and/or service development
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Experience of using EMIS
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Experience of using eRoster
Job overview
Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist and EHC Lead
Full-time hours 37.5 per week
£53,751 - £60,651 Inclusive of HCAS
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Children’s Occupational Therapy team.
The Children`s Occupational Therapist and EHC Lead will work as part of a team that provides a high standard occupational therapy service to children up to 18 years of age with difficulties in play, self-care and/or school occupations due to a variety of conditions.
The post holder will be the OT Lead for Education and Health Care (EHC) assessments, with responsibility for completing assessments, providing reports and attending EHC panels along with oversight and quality assurance of EHC assessment provision across the service.
The post holder will develop, plan and provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and advice for children with functional difficulties, working closely with the multidisciplinary team, wider CYP service, school staff and families/carers. The postholder will work autonomously, seeing children in a variety of community healthcare and educational settings, including clients’ homes, clinics, schools and nurseries.
The Children`s Occupational Therapist and EHC Lead will line manage a small team, including recruitment and retention, and deliver specialist training and advice to multi-disciplinary colleagues and students.
Interviews expected around 8th October 2026
Main duties of the job
Provide Education, Health and Care plan (EHC) assessments, reports and reviews, and oversee and quality assure the EHC assessment provision within the service, including reports and assessments by other team members; in all cases ensure adherence to local, national and professional guidelines and practice.
Exercise specialist understanding in complex cases, supporting multi-disciplinary colleagues and working closely with the SEN Team. This will include offering specialist testimony regarding OT provision e.g. at panels, appeals and tribunals.
Maintain a specialist knowledge of the EHC process and associated legislation, keeping up to date with SEND local offers, developments and good practice; share and disseminate learning and promote quality improvement.
Manage a complex clinical caseload, using evidence-based practice and client-centred care, undertaking assessment, interpretation of assessment results, evaluation, meaningful goals, treatment, and advice.
Carry out assessments and evaluate the child’s occupational performance, for example, through the use of standardised and non-standardised assessments, observation, interview with parent or carer and/or parent and teacher questionnaires.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full JD attached
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Children's Occupational Therapist and EHC Lead with Bromley Healthcare CIC in Bromley, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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