Children’s Occupational Therapist

Salary details: £44331 - £50574

Children’s Occupational Therapist Opportunities

Permanent, Full time and Part time considered

Supporting independence, building resilience and better connecting people with communities, activities and opportunities really matters to us.  If you’re an Occupational Therapist and share our vision, want to embrace change, and are committed to supporting our residents achieve their best outcomes, we’d love to receive your application to join our dedicated teams.

Our Children’s OT Service is always open to hearing from experienced and passionate Occupational Therapists.  If you are interested in life-long learning; want to make a real difference and would like to be part of services that strive for continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for experienced, autonomous and highly motivated practitioners who want to influence practice and who are looking for a new challenge in the workplace. We welcome applications from keen, creative individuals who thrive on developing services and the profession.

In return we offer a supportive, friendly and dynamic place to work, with a generous staff benefits package.  Staff wellbeing is important to us – within this, we know that flexible work can mean many different things and we recognise how this contributes to your work life balance and wellbeing.  We’d welcome a discussion with you if you are looking for flexible working arrangements.  Based in Woolwich, we have never been better connected via Crossrail, The Elizabeth Line and Uber boat.

We are always interested in receiving applications for the following roles:

• Children’s Occupational Therapist, Career Grade (PO3-PO4)

You’ll find our job documents attached.  

If you’d like to talk to us about Children’s Occupational Therapist roles at Greenwich, please contact us:

Additional Information

• The post holder must hold a diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). An enhanced DBS is required.
• Please ensure that your supporting statement details how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification document.

Applications reviewed fortnightly 

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Caireen McGlashan;    Caireen.McGlashan@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     020 8921 4687  

Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Royal Greenwich is committed to being an inclusive employer and we recognise that flexible ways of working are a valuable tool in improving workplace equality.  The Council is committed to providing a wide and flexible range of working arrangements including hybrid working for its workforce where service needs allow and we welcome this discussion with prospective applicants. The delivery of high quality services to our residents is at the heart of all we do - all requests for flexible working will be carefully considered in this context and on a service/case basis.