Advanced Children's Occupational Therapy - Bedfordshire and Luton
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, Term time hours, Annualised hours
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Children's Occupational Therapist to join the 'Experts at Hand' national SEND reform project. The role involves providing consultation, training, coaching, and targeted interventions to a cluster of settings in Luton and Bedfordshire. You will also have clinical leadership responsibilities, supervise junior staff, and manage a small caseload of children requiring short-term intervention. The post holder will work within a multidisciplinary system partnership to deliver a robust offer.
Essential criteria
- Degree in OT
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
- sensory training
- Working with CYP in education or community settings
- Experience of delivering training
- minimum 3 years post graduate experience
- working in a range of Multi-agency settings
- managing people
- specialist knowledge in functional and sensory OT
- ability to use various microsoft programmes
- Able to work with stakeholders
- Degree in OT
- HCPC registration
- Leadership training
- sensory training
- Working with CYP in education or community settings
- Experience of delivering training
- minimum 3 years post graduate experience
- working in a range of Multi-agency settings
- managing people
- specialist knowledge in functional and sensory OT
- ability to use various microsoft programmes
- Able to work with stakeholders
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.
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East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)
Advanced Children's Occupational Therapy - Bedfordshire and Luton
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
East of England Community Health and Care Trust is establishing Experts at Hand , a national SEND reform project that recognises the vital role of Occupational Therapy in early years, mainstream schools and further education.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Children's Occupational Therapist with a passion for innovation, workforce development and system-wide working. The post holder will act as a named Occupational Therapy Expert at Hand for a cluster of settings, providing consultation, training, coaching and targeted interventions.
The role includes clinical leadership responsibilities, supervision of Newly Qualified OTs, support practitioners and apprentices, alongside contributing to service development and evaluation. The post holder will play a key role in developing and delivering the Experts at Hand model across Luton and Bedfordshire as part of the SEND reform programme.
In addition, the post holder will manage a small caseload of children requiring short-term targeted-plus intervention, working closely with specialist services within a tiered model of support.
As part of a multidisciplinary system partnership, the post holder will work alongside Educationa
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