Specialist Children’s Community Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering high quality Occupational Therapy services to children? If the answer is “yes” then this may be the job opportunity for you.

Evelina Community Occupational Therapy have the opportunity to recruit to a permanent Band 6 posts for 37.5 hours.

The Evelina Community Children’s Occupational Therapy Service is an integral part of specialist services that provides care to the population of Lambeth and Southwark. Southwark and Lambeth are multicultural and vibrant inner South London boroughs. The service is dynamic and works closely with multidisciplinary and multi agency colleagues.

Interviews will take place week commencing 12th January 2026

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have the opportunity to work across our community sites with Evelina Community OT team based at Sunshine House Child Development Centre in Camberwell, Southwark and Mary Sheridan Child development Centre, Kennington, Lambeth.

You will have the opportunity to see children 0-19 across a range of conditions such as complex physical disabilities, Autism, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), and deliver blocks of assessment and therapy intervention within the service model.

Within our service we use the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (CMOP-e) to guide our clinical reasoning and practice- keeping a clear focus on occupational outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description detailed information regarding the responsibilities and requirements for this post.

• To provide an advanced standard of occupational therapy assessment, treatment, management and advice to paediatric patients aged 0-19, their families and carers within the community setting. The caseload consists of children with a wide range of development difficulties and/or disabilities, many of whom may have very complex or multiple pathologies. •    To work as a lone practitioner, unsupervised, and at times in conjunction with less senior team colleagues across a variety of locations within the community including patients homes, schools, clinics, to meet the needs of the individual child.