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For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description, but some of the responsibilities include

• To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients and carers, including advice, instruction and teaching.
• To be able to motivate and facilitate children through specialist communication skills, play and handling.
• To advise, support and empower patients and their families/carers in self -management skills.
• To communicate assessment and treatment plans in the form of reports, letters and patient notes.
• To communicate highly sensitive information, effectively in a timely way.
• To work collaboratively with others to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi-disciplinary service.  This will include multi-disciplinary discussion of the child’s care and progress and involvement in discharge planning.
• To communicate effectively with and work collaboratively with multiple medical, nursing and therapy staff in a range of settings including acute and community settings.
• To effectively share complex information with parents/carers and other professionals regarding a child’s condition and treatment progress, in relation to therapy goals, whilst being sensitive and empathetic to their prior level of knowledge and understanding.
• Communication skills such as counselling, reassurance, persuasion, motivation explanation and negotiation will be used with a variety of patients. Barriers to effective interpretation will regularly be evident e.g., use of interpreters, pain, anger, depression, frustration and or fear.
• To promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and intervention and to ensure consistency in the approach to patient care when dealing with patients, carers and other professionals.
• To represent the trust externally regarding occupational therapy services provided to patients.

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of work including the management of patients following national, local and occupational therapy policies.
• To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner within a team and as a lone worker.
• To have highly developed skills in the observation, handling and assessment of a patient and to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to assist in the formulation of accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions and assist others to do likewise through teaching and training.
• To provide advanced, evidence based and specialist Occupational Therapy assessments of children presenting with a wide range of ages and diagnoses, considering physical, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, psychosocial, spiritual, social, environmental and cultural needs.
• To make recommendations and decisions regarding appropriate equipment to meet the needs of specific patients.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent from child or carer and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients/parents who lack capacity to consent treatment.
• To liaise closely with parents, care staff and other professionals involved with this patient group and manage the day to day running of the section.
• To organise and undertake responsibility for home and access visits with the subsequent verbal and written information that is required. 
• To liaise closely with local teams regarding onward referral to community paediatric occupational therapy for those who require ongoing intervention.
• To maintain clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping informed of any new trends, which includes attending internal or external courses and incorporating them as necessary into the workplace (reflective evidence-based practise).
• To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities, the local Trust staff appraisal scheme and agreed personal development plan.
• To actively maintain and develop the specialist skills required of a specialist paediatric occupational therapist by participating in reflective practice, attending in-service training, relevant national courses, clinical specialist groups, clinical supervision and peer review