Childrens Occupational TherapistNHS

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic Band 5 Occupational Therapist passionate about helping children and young people thrive through our Experts at Hand service?

Join Warrington Childrens Community Occupational Therapy Service in this 1.0 WTE role, helping educational settings identify needs early and provide inclusive support. Through consultation, coaching, modelling and targeted training, you will build staff confidence to support children at universal, targeted and targeted-plus levels. Working with families, education colleagues and partner agencies, you will reduce barriers to learning and participation and help children receive the right support at the right time.

You will join a supportive, collaborative team with approachable leadership that values wellbeing, work-life balance and professional growth. Regular clinical supervision, structured support and development opportunities will build your confidence and skills while enabling you to contribute to service improvement, clinical governance and shared learning.

If you are a motivated, reflective occupational therapist with strong clinical reasoning, communication and partnership-working skills, we would be delighted to welcome you.

Our valuesKind, Open, Fair and One Teamguide your compassionate practice, open communication, commitment to equitable access and collaborative work to improve outcomes for children and young people.

Provisional interview dates: 21st & 22nd October 2026

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist within the Warrington Childrens Occupational Therapy Experts at Hand service, you will support schools to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to meet the occupational performance, participation and independence needs of children and young people.

With support and supervision from experienced colleagues, you will help develop and deliver engaging whole-school training, consultation and coaching. You will enable education staff to embed inclusive occupational therapy approaches and use appropriate, evidence-based strategies, while contributing to reflective practice and service development.

You will contribute to drop-in consultation sessions in Warrington schools, helping education staff to identify functional needs early, agree practical strategies and navigate appropriate pathways so children receive support at a universal, targeted or specialist level. Working collaboratively with education staff, families and partner agencies, you will promote inclusive environments and help embed effective approaches into everyday school routines.

You will support the evaluation and continuous improvement of the service by recording activity and outcomes, gathering feedback and using agreed performance information to demonstrate how the Experts at Hand model improves staff confidence, inclusive practice and outcomes for children and young people.

Job description

Job Purpose:

To hold responsibility for and organise own caseload, within delegated areas of the service, with on-going support from a more experienced Therapist.

To provide assessment, treatment and management of babies, children and adolescents who present with diverse physical, developmental, sensory and learning needs.

To work closely with the multi-disciplinary team.

To continue own professional development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To plan, prepare and undertake assessments for a designated caseload, working in collaboration with child and carers/involved agencies.

To identify areas of occupational performance and skill deficit in all functional activities of daily life.

To work with the child and/or carers to identify goals as part of an overall care plan in co-operation with the multi-disciplinary team

To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload, highlight areas of concern and managing own time under the supervision of more experienced staff.

To plan and implement client centred individual and/or group interventions, evaluating treatment in order to measure progress/outcomes.

To ensure joint / multiagency working occurs where appropriate, with health colleagues and partner agencies, attending reviews and clinical meetings as required by clinical responsibility

To undertake joint assessments and interventions with therapy colleagues where clinically appropriate.

To receive and contribute to the delivery of training for own profession and others.

To actively prepare and plan for supervision.

Please see Full Job Description attached.

About us

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team: We work well together and with our communities