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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
We are seeking an energetic and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our paediatric OT service at Evelina London Children's Hospital. The post holder will work as part of our acute inpatient team covering Orthopaedic services. This is a fixed term 9 month post covering an internal secondment within out team.
Main duties of the job
Our service aims to provide timely, evidence-based interventions which support children and their families in order to promote recovery, well-being and participation in day to day activities within the acute setting, whilst also ensuring safe transitions to home and the community when leaving our care.
A core part of your role will involve working with children and young people who require surgical intervention as part of their orthopaedic management. You will be required to provide pre and post operative assessment, advice and intervention including provision and/or adjustment of specialist equipment and complex moving and handling risk assessment and care plans. With a focus on safe discharge planning, you will work proactively with the MDT, parents and carers and our community partners to ensure equipment needs are met and home environments are optimised to facilitate a safe transition to home.
Your role will also involve working closely with the rest of the inpatient Occupational Therapy team and the wider multi-disciplinary team. You will support with providing cover across other hospital wards including general paediatrics and PICU.
The successful applicant will also be required to possess excellent time management and verbal and written communication skills, as caseload management and liaison within the multi-disciplinary team and our community colleagues in health, wheelchair services and social care is an essential part of this role.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description for detailed overview of this post and its main responsibilities.
About the employer
This Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) post is within the paediatric OT service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, at the St Thomas' Hospital site. The paediatric OT team consists of 20 paediatric occupational therapists, and two occupational therapy assistants. We are a dynamic and welcoming team with a clear focus on continued professional development and progression across all pillars of practice is encouraged.
You will be responsible for supporting the development of knowledge and skills for junior members of staff working in this area and will contribute to service development. There is also the opportunity to further develop specialist knowledge and skills in assessment and intervention for children within your caseload as you will work in consultation with the clinical specialist OT's working across our inpatient services.
You will be supervised by clinical specialist staff within the paediatric occupational therapy team, and supported by the clinical lead for paediatric Occupational Therapy and professionally managed by the Trust Head Occupational Therapist.
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