# Children's Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bromley Healthcare CIC. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-occupational-therapist-experts-at-hand/ef2c2075-3088-4a96-af62-443dcd182a06 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-occupational-therapist-experts-at-hand/ef2c2075-3088-4a96-af62-443dcd182a06.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Bromley Healthcare CIC - **Location:** Phoenix Centre, 40 Masons Hill, Bromley, BR2 9JG, United Kingdom - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 Inc HCAS Per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T11:41:22.510Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Bromley/Bromley_Healthcare/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8304997 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8304997?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** http://www.bromleyhealthcare.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Band 6 Children's Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand £45,953 - £54,254 Inc HCAS Per annum pro rata Perm - 37.5 hrs per week This role offers an exciting opportunity for a motivated Occupational Therapist to join Bromley’s evolving Experts at Hand (EaH) model and play a central part in the borough’s SEND transformation. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team working to strengthen early identification, targeted intervention and inclusive practice across education and early years settings. As a School‑Based OT, you will help shape a new, prevention‑led offer that brings specialist expertise closer to classrooms, families and school communities. You will deliver evidence‑based occupational therapy within a tiered Universal–Targeted–Targeted+–Specialist framework, providing coaching, consultation and modelling of OT strategies in real school environments. Day‑to‑day practice includes supporting whole‑school approaches, delivering targeted interventions, implementing therapy programmes, and collaborating with teachers, SENDCOs and families to improve functional outcomes for children and young people. You will hold a targeted+ and specialist caseload, completing assessment and intervention in context for children with occupational performance needs and functional difficulties. ### Main duties of the job - To work autonomously and without direct supervision in a defined clinical area, recognising professional boundaries and seeking guidance where necessary, but having accountability for own clinical actions. - To be responsible for a clinical caseload of paediatric occupational therapy including assessment, interpretation of assessment results, evaluation, treatment, and advice, through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures. - To work with education partners using evidence-based approaches such as coaching, modelling and guiding to enhance capacity in the educational context and support children’s functional participation as part of the OT offer. - To provide support and training to educational partners via modelling and setting up of group interventions, workshops, or OT surgeries when needed as part of the OT offer. - To carry out assessments and evaluate the child’s occupational performance in context. This may include the use of standardised and non-standardised assessments, observation, interview with parent or carer and/or parent and teacher questionnaires. - To develop, plan and implement specialist Occupational Therapy treatment programmes and strategies to enhance the child’s ability to perform everyday activities and participate in multiple environments. This could include verbal and written advice/ recommendations, written advice sheets, individual treatment and/or group therapy. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To monitor and review the progress of the child against set targets, modifying the targets and offering specialist advice where appropriate. - To undertake moving and handling risk assessments where appropriate. - Assess a child’s need for specialist equipment and small aids (e.g. specialist seating, bath aids and toilet aids), advise and recommend/ provide appropriate equipment for use at home, pre-school and school, in line with service criteria. - Review and complete adjustments to specialist equipment, e.g. specialist seating, ensuring equipment is appropriate to meet the child functional needs within the identified occupations and to demonstrate use to family and professionals working with the child. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Training **Essential** - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development - Additional training in the assessment and treatment of children with functional needs. **Desirable** - Relevant post registration specialist education – ideally sensory integration training levels 1 and 2 - Practice educator or equivalent - Additional training in Coaching, OPC, COOP ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working in community NHS paediatric practice. - Experience in assessing, planning and delivering occupation focused intervention for children with a range of difficulties e.g. physical disabilities, multiple and complex conditions, displaying, challenging behaviour, coordination or sensory processing difficulties - Experience of equipment prescription and its principles in the paediatric setting. - Excellent working knowledge of child development, related conditions and the implications for Occupational Therapy. - Experience working with schools using evidence-based approaches, providing training and workshops to build capacity. **Desirable** - Experience of upper limb splinting. - Line management experience. - Experience in specialist school provision. - Working knowledge of the SEND agenda and reforms. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to diploma or degree level in Occupational Therapy or equivalent training/study ### Specific Skills **Essential** - Ability to independently manage a clinical caseload of children with varying needs within a community paediatric setting - Ability to assess and analyse a child’s functional abilities using standardised and non- standardised methods - Ability to take an evidence- informed approach to assessments and interventions, using an occupation-based focus - Ability to line manage others, including appraisal and performance management - Confidence and competence in relating evidence-based theory to practice. ### Professional Registration **Essential** - HCPC registration **Desirable** - Member of the specialist sections or groups relevant to children's OT. ### Information Technology and Information Governance **Essential** - Good IT skills, including the use of Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. - Competent in use of electronic patient records. - Ability to use information resources/ portals to order equipment, produce and submit data, reports, etc. **Desirable** - Experience of EMIS - Experience of TECS ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10624737) - [occy health (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626422) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.