Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Term time hours
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the newly formed Expert at Hand service in Cheshire West and Chester. You will work as a specialist consultant, providing expert advice, support, training, and intervention planning to professionals, education settings, families, and wider health and care partners. The position focuses on enabling children and young people with complex needs to achieve optimal outcomes within their everyday environments, contributing specialist OT expertise to complex case management.
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate experience of working with children with SEND
- Post-graduate experience of working with children with sensory processing issues
- Experience of leading service development
- Experience of community based working - including education settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading a team
- Knowledge and skills
- SI training - Level 3 / equivalent experience
- Knowledge of SEND, SEND reforms, Expert at Hand plans
- Core OT skills to support functional skills, executive functioning
- HCPC registered
- Access to own car
- Post-graduate qualifications appropriate to role
- Leadership qualification
- Post-graduate experience of working with children with SEND
- Post-graduate experience of working with children with sensory processing issues
- Experience of leading service development
- Experience of community based working - including education settings
- Experience of leading a team
- Knowledge and skills
- SI training - Level 3 / equivalent experience
- Knowledge of SEND, SEND reforms, Expert at Hand plans
- Core OT skills to support functional skills, executive functioning
- HCPC registered
- Access to own car
- Post-graduate qualifications appropriate to role
- Leadership qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 8d
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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist - Experts at Hand
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting opportunity to work in our newly formed, forward-thinkingExpert at Hand service?
Working alongside our existing Sensory Processing OT Support Service (SPOTSS), and our core OT team, we have 2 roles available for highly motivated Band 7 Occupational Therapists in Cheshire West and Chester, focused around Early Years, Primary and Secondary / Post 16.
This is a great opportunity for a specialist OT who is passionate about enabling children and young people with complex needs to achieve the best possible outcomes within their everyday environments. Rather than delivering a traditional caseload model, you will work as a specialist consultant, providing expert advice, support, training and intervention planning to professionals, education settings, families and wider health and care partners.
As part of the Experts at Hand team, you will contribute your specialist occupational therapy expertise to support the management of complex cases across a range of settings. Working alongside colleagues from a variety of professional backgrounds, you will help build confidence, skills and capacity within the wider workforce, en
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