Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead Bromley's Experts at Hand model, focusing on SEND reform and strengthening provision in education and early-years settings. You will drive early identification, inclusive practice, and workforce capability, shaping whole-school approaches and leading consultation. The position involves coaching, modelling OT strategies, delivering targeted interventions, and supporting staff training. You will also manage a small caseload of children with complex occupational performance needs.
Key responsibilities
- Provide occupational therapy consultation, advice, and support to schools through the Experts at Hand service delivery model.
- Manage a complex clinical caseload, using evidence-based practice and client-centred care, undertaking assessment, interpretation of results, evaluation, goal setting, treatment, and advice.
- Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings to formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary outcomes and goals.
- Develop, plan, and implement specialist Occupational Therapy treatment programmes and strategies to enhance children's ability to perform everyday activities and participate in multiple environments.
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma or degree level in Occupational Therapy or equivalent training/study
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, including post registration training/qualifications in relevant specialist areas e.g. sensory integration levels 1 and 2, CO-OP approach, neurodevelopment and complex needs
- Post registration training/qualification in leadership and management, or equivalent experience.
- Comprehensive training in assessment and treatment of children with complex functional needs
- Field Work Educator Course, or equivalent training/experience.
- Ability to autonomously manage a complex caseload within a community paediatric setting.
- Significant, current and relevant clinical skills - either developed in children's OT or transferable - demonstrating evidence informed practice with an occupation-based focus.
- Excellent working knowledge of child development and varying conditions and the implication for Occupational Therapy.
- Ability to assess the need for, prescribe/recommend and advise on the use of specialist equipment.
- Ability to assess and analyse a child's functional abilities using standardised and non-standardised methods, in line with best practice.
- Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to empower others in practice and a sound understanding of accountability, delegation and escalation in a clinical setting.
- Excellent written communication skills, including: odetailed reports and contemporaneous note taking othe ability to record and convey actions, decisions, recommendations, etc, accurately, succinctly and within timelines
- Significant post registration experience within paediatrics
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience of complex caseload management.
- interventions - including moving and handling and specialist equipment use - for children with a range of difficulties e.g. physical disabilities, multiple and complex conditions, displaying, challenging behaviour, coordination or sensory processing difficulties
- Significant experience in the assessment and provision of EHC reports.
- Excellent understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, EHC plans and related legislation.
- Established knowledge of national policies, procedures and legislation relevant to Children's OT, including safeguarding.
- Experience of leadership and management, including appraisal and performance/absence management.
- Solid IT skills, including use of mobile phone, laptop etc and programmes for service delivery and line management e.g. Microsoft office, internet, email
- Knowledge and experience of using electronic patient/clinical systems, including ordering clinical equipment.
- Experience of electronic diaries and/or rosters
Desirable criteria
- Training specific to EHC process, including report writing and giving evidence at tribunals/hearings
- Experience of attending EHC panels.
- Experience in providing specialist OT school provision
- Experience of leading policy and/or service development
- Experience of using EMIS
- Experience of using eRoster
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bromley Healthcare CIC
Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Children's Occupational Therapist Experts at Hand Clinical Lead
Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of HCAS
Full-time hours 37.5 per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to take a leading role in delivering Bromley's Experts at Hand (EaH) model, supporting system-wide SEND reform and strengthening universal and targeted provision across education and early-years settings. As a locality lead within a tiered service delivery model, you will drive early identification, inclusive practice and workforce capability building. Working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team, you will shape whole-school approaches, lead consultation and coaching, and embed evidence-based OT strategies across diverse educational environments. Day-to-day practice includes coaching and modelling OT strategies in context, delivering targeted interventions, supporting staff training, and responding flexibly to emerging needs within your locality. Alongside these system-level responsibilities, you will maintain a small targeted-plus and specialist caseload, providing assessment, intervention and collaborative problem-solving for children with more complex occupational performance needs.
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