Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
24 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
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
Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of HCAS
Full-time hours 37.5 per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to take a leading role in delivering Bromley’s Experts at Hand (EaH) model, supporting system‑wide SEND reform and strengthening universal and targeted provision across education and early‑years settings.
As a locality lead within a tiered service delivery model, you will drive early identification, inclusive practice and workforce capability building. Working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team, you will shape whole‑school approaches, lead consultation and coaching, and embed evidence‑based OT strategies across diverse educational environments.
Day‑to‑day practice includes coaching and modelling OT strategies in context, delivering targeted interventions, supporting staff training, and responding flexibly to emerging needs within your locality. Alongside these system‑level responsibilities, you will maintain a small targeted‑plus and specialist caseload, providing assessment, intervention and collaborative problem‑solving for children with more complex occupational performance needs.
Main duties of the job
The Children`s Occupational Therapy Service provides high-quality occupational therapy to children and young people 0-18 years old, with difficulties in play, self-care and/or school occupations due to a variety of conditions. Occupational Therapists within the service work autonomously, seeing children in a variety of community healthcare and educational settings including clients’ homes, clinics, schools, nurseries and specialist educational settings. Children and young people referred to the service may have multiple and complex conditions.
As an experienced practitioner, the Highly Specialist Children`s Occupational Therapist will manage a team of occupational therapists who will work to build capacity in mainstream schools through universal and targeted work, while also holding a complex clinical caseload of specialist cases. The Occupational Therapy lead will be expected to oversee as well as support the team in managing the offer for schools and early year settings while ensuring children who need specialist care get timely assessments. The postholder will also offer specialist support and education to healthcare colleagues and other agencies involved in the child’s care.
The Highly Specialist Children`s Occupational Therapist will provide leadership and line management within the service, including recruitment and retention, appraisal and performance/ absence management.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide occupational therapy consultation, advice, and support to schools through the Experts at Hand service delivery model, working collaboratively with education settings, families, and professionals to build capacity, promote early identification, inclusion, participation, and support the implementation of evidence-based strategies that meet the functional needs of children and young people.
- 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.
- To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non-standardised assessments in order to help contribute and formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary outcomes and goals in collaboration with the children/ and or family whenever possible.
- Develop, plan and implement specialist Occupational Therapy treatment programme and strategies to enhance the child’s ability to perform everyday activities and participate in multiple environments through, e.g. verbal and written advice and recommendations, written advice sheets, individual treatment and/or group therapy.
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 Experts at Hand Clinical 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 01 Oct 2026.
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