Systemic Family Therapist

TN United Kingdom; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

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11.03.2025

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25.04.2025

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Job overview

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to develop your skills in paediatrics? Are you looking for a role that offers career development?

Here in the CYPIT team, we have the opportunity for an experienced band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team based in Maidenhead.

You will hold a mixed caseload developing your clinical skills within early years, school age, and special schools. You will need to have previous experience working with families from a wide variety of backgrounds and have an understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people.

You will collaborate across a multi-disciplinary team communicating with various parties to ensure that we deliver a seamless service. Understanding the value of integrated services is essential. You will be expected to act as an ambassador for our service and will have excellent communication skills ensuring you are calm and confident, dealing with challenging situations.

Working in a passionate team, you will have access to our Trust-wide Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth, with opportunities to help you build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, enabling you to extend your skills and ensure that you excel.

The service operates Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00, and we are open to both full and part-time applications.

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility for a dedicated caseload and clinical role.
• Carry out clinical assessments within your level of clinical knowledge and skill.
• Identify relevant therapy needs from which you can develop and deliver an individualised management plan, with support from a senior therapist as needed.
• Contribute to and deliver training to schools/early years settings, parents, CYP, and staff, as part of therapy support and delivery.
• Contribute to the implementation and development of the impact-based model of clinical decision making.
• Work collaboratively with education, local authority, medical, and nursing staff to ensure delivery of a coordinated integrated service along with Speech and Language Therapy and Physiotherapy colleagues.
• Opportunity to develop leadership and management skills, overseeing junior staff and students.

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority.
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions.

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell.
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles.
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality.
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• To be a qualified Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration.
• Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist with children and young people.
• Full UK license with access to a vehicle.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

• Professional Qualification Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by postgraduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training.
• Able to demonstrate required clinical knowledge of up-to-date Occupational therapy interventions and service issues relevant to Children and Young Peoples service provision.
• An understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people.
• Clinical educators course.
• Member of relevant clinical specialist interest group.

Continuous Professional Development

• Recognised CPD in area of clinical specialism.
• Experience of supervision and training of other band 5 therapists/students and other professionals.
• Willingness to undertake leadership and management training and development.

Previous Experience

• Minimum of years’ experience in working with children.
• Experience of undertaking assessment of and supporting children with complex presentations.
• Experience of supporting CYP in both community and educational settings.
• Experience with developing and delivering training programmes to support service delivery.
• Experienced and able to demonstrate a commitment to integrated working and close partnership working with internal and external partners.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Evidence of a value system which puts the child at the heart of actions.
• Evidence of an understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people.
• Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge and familiarisation with a range of standardised and non-standardised assessment tools relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
• Able to use IT to support and innovate clinical development.
• Excellent, succinct written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a calm and confident manner in stressful situations.
• Ability to work successfully as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Knowledge of current professional and statutory issues.
• Ability to self-motivate.
• Ability to act as a role model and leader to others, in adopting change.

Additional Requirements

• Car Driver and willingness to work across Berkshire, as required.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients, and the wider community by providing a smoke-free environment. A smoke-free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

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