Childrens Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Do you want to be part of a large, dynamic, integrated children's therapy service? We are transforming our service, and an exciting opportunity for Maternity Leave cover for a Occupational Therapist based in the Portsmouth and East Hants locality.

HIOWH Children's Therapy Service has an integrated model of care across Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry working together to provide holistic support with children and their families at the centre of what we do. We have excellent working relationships with early years services, schools, health and social care colleagues. This enables us to support children and the wider community to develop creative and innovative ways of working together to better meet the needs of both the child and their family.

We can support you to develop your clinical skills by offering:

A friendly and supportive network of colleagues

Clinical supervision and joint working opportunities

Regular peer supervision with colleagues across the team.

Training and development opportunities

HIOWH NHS Foundation Trust's Integrated Children's Therapy service is for children aged 0-19 who experience challenges with Physical disability, daily functional activities, eating and drinking skills, speech, language, and communication.

This is a community service delivered in children's homes, pre-school settings, Children's Centres, mainstream schools, special schools, and community clinics.

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy Service to children and young people some of whom may have complex needs, providing interventions using evidence based, person centred principles.

To ensure that the service provided is high quality, clinically effective and cost effective.

To provide support, supervision and mentoring to colleagues.

To train students, healthcare professionals and staff from other agencies who work with children and their families.

To take responsibility on behalf of the Service for a designated champion role as directed by Service Manager e.g. safeguarding/infection control/IT links to other teams etc.

To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the people under your management, adhering to agreed departmental standards, national protocols/policies and the RCOT Professional Code of Conduct and support colleagues to do likewise.

To use clinical knowledge and experience to work with the person to assess their needs, identify goals for the Occupational Therapy intervention.

To follow service defined evidenced based pathways to provide complex assessment, formulate, evaluate and review individual OT management and intervention plans using clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of diagnoses and a range of intervention skills appropriate to the person, always working in partnership with people and their important others.

Please see job description for more detail.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 21 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 1 years
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-12040
• Job locations: Battenburg Avenue Clinic, Battenburg Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 0TA, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).