Band 6 Locum Community Occupational Therapist

Children’s Community Occupational Therapist (Locum)

Job Overview

We are recruiting an experienced Children’s Community Occupational Therapist to join the Children with Disabilities Team at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, within North West Social Services. This locum role focuses on providing specialist occupational therapy support to children and young people with disabilities, complex health needs, or chronic and terminal illness within their home and community environments. You will play a key role in supporting independence, safety, and wellbeing through high-quality assessment, intervention, and multi-agency collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

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• Deliver a specialist Occupational Therapy service for children and young people with disabilities, complex health needs, chronic illness, and associated social and housing needs.
   

• Undertake comprehensive community-based assessments of disabled children and young people, including those with chronic and terminal illness.
   

• Provide a specialist response in complex and highly complex cases, formulating and implementing detailed intervention plans to reduce the impact of disability and ill health.
   

• Ensure the voice of the child or young person and their family is central to all assessment and intervention planning.
   

• Work in a multi-agency way with colleagues across Tameside MBC, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, and partner agencies.
   

• Provide professional advice on disability equipment, home adaptations, and manual handling.
   

• Carry out manual handling and ergonomic risk assessments and develop safe handling plans to reduce risk for informal carers.
   

• Manage a complex caseload autonomously, demonstrating a high level of clinical reasoning and problem-solving ability.

About You

You are a compassionate and skilled Occupational Therapist with experience working with children and young people with disabilities and complex needs in community settings. You bring strong assessment and clinical reasoning skills, a family-centred approach, and the confidence to manage complex cases independently. Your ability to work collaboratively across health, education, and social care will be essential to achieving positive outcomes for children and their families.

Requirements  

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy and current HCPC registration.
   

• Experience working in paediatric community services or children’s social care.
   

• Strong knowledge of disability, child development, and family-centred practice.
   

• Experience providing advice on equipment, housing adaptations, and manual handling.
   

• Ability to undertake manual handling and ergonomic risk assessments.
   

• Excellent communication, documentation, and autonomous caseload management skills.
   

• Strong problem-solving and clinical reasoning abilities.

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