Children's Occupational Therapist

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a experienced Children's Occupational Therapist for its client to join Westminster City Council's Bi-Borough Disabled Children's Service.

This is an excellent opportunity to support children and young people with disabilities and complex needs, helping them achieve greater independence, improve their daily functioning and enhance their quality of life.

You will deliver specialist, community-based Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions, working closely with children, families, carers and multidisciplinary professionals across home, school and community settings.

What will your responsibilities be?

Manage a varied caseload of children and young people with complex disabilities and diverse needs.

Conduct comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessments across home, school and community environments.

Assess activities of daily living, including mobility, transfers, personal care, bathing, toileting, seating and feeding.

Recommend, prescribe and review specialist equipment, including seating systems, bathing equipment, hoists and feeding aids.

Assess housing needs and recommend appropriate home adaptations and environmental modifications.

Prepare professional assessment reports and contribute to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans where required.

Work collaboratively with social workers, education providers, health professionals, housing teams and other partner agencies.

Support children and families with disability-related rehousing needs.

Participate in and chair multi-agency meetings where appropriate.

Maintain accurate case records using Mosaic or other relevant systems.

Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures to ensure children's safety and wellbeing.

Contribute to continuing professional development and student or apprentice support where appropriate.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Current HCPC registration.
• Minimum of two years' post-qualification experience.
• At least one year's paediatric Occupational Therapy experience or relevant community-based experience.
• Experience working with children with complex disabilities and associated needs.
• Knowledge of Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention planning, review and discharge.
• Understanding of safeguarding, child protection and risk assessment procedures.
• Experience assessing and recommending specialist equipment and housing adaptations.
• Strong communication, report-writing and clinical documentation skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively within multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Commitment to person-centred practice, equality, diversity and continuing professional development.
• Desirable Experience: Experience contributing to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans.
• Knowledge of Mosaic or similar local authority case management systems.
• Experience working within Children's Social Care or a local authority setting.
• Experience supporting Occupational Therapy students, apprentices or junior colleagues.
• Why Liquid Personnel?
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
• Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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