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Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your occupational therapy career in Paediatrics?

Come and work for Children’ Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service in the beautiful surroundings of East Sussex.

We are a highly successful integrated therapy service with a pooled budget across health and social care since 2013. Post holders will work within an integrated children’s therapy team including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Integrated Therapy Assistants, Apprentices and administrators for children aged 0-19.

We are an assessment and advice service as well as providing interventions to children and young people using evidence-based approaches including Sensory Integrative informed practice in line with RCOT, trauma-informed care, Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance, Neurodevelopmental approach and with a focus on enabling.

Although based in East Sussex, we are employed by KCHFT which is an outstanding trust. We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working together and in partnership with other teams to provide seamless care

We are growing our Occupational Therapy team and have vacancies across all our work streams. 

Please come to online open evening on 14th May to find out more and ask any questions you may have.

To book a place on the open evening please email [email protected] and we will share the online link with you. We look forward to meeting you!

Main duties of the job

The service is arranged in 5 teams:

The Neighbourhood Team: Supports our mainstream early years, school and post-16 college settings. We are embracing new ways of working moving from a consultative to a collaborative model, promoting the universal offer and transforming how we work with school settings. 

The Social, Emotional and Mental Health Team: Focusses on the developing field of social, emotional and mental health. We are developing teams of SLTs, OTs and ITAs who work with key schools to support neurodiversity in the classroom, working predominantly with children and young people with attachment disorders and history of trauma.

The Integrated Care Team: Are a multidisciplinary team of therapists and assistants who provide therapy support to children with complex physical disability (including neurodisability, developmental delay) in the community.

The Adaptations Team: Are a small team of Occupational Therapists who specialise in major adaptations including Disabled Facilities Grants and they also support the Local Authority to improve accessibility in schools in East Sussex.

The Therapy One Point (TOP) Team: Is our single point of contact for accessing services relating to speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and equipment.  We have the following vacancies:

Neighbourhood Team: B7 - 1 WTE
Integrated Care Team: B6 - 2 x 0.6 WTE,  B7-1.0 WTE
SEMH Team: B5 - 1 WTE

**Please state which post you are applying for in your application form**

Working for our organisation

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations