CYPS Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Children and Young People's Occupational Therapy Services is part of an Integrated Children's Directorate providing services for children and young people with challenges to their physical health and also those with learning disability and autistic spectrum conditions within health, social care, education and the local acute hospital.

We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to provide strong clinical leadership within CYPS, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based and child-centred practice. The post holder will manage a specialised caseload, contribute to service improvement, and support effective clinical governance. A commitment to ensuring the voice and lived experience of children and young people informs all decisions is essential. Ockenden funding enables 1 day per week within this role , providing highly specialised neonatal occupational therapy assessment and intervention at GRH

Main duties of the job

Clinical leadership and case management

• Provide clinical leadership and expertise within the service to ensure service delivery reflects best/evidence-based practice as well as embracing continuous learning and improvement.
• Provide highly specialised occupational therapy assessment and therapy to the neonatal caseload at GRH.
• Independently manage a specialised clinical caseload of children/young people and their families, involving providing clinical assessment, advice and the delivery of treatment programmes for children and young people with complex physical healthcare needs
• Adopt corporate, clinical governance and best practice principles within servicedelivery
• Contribute to ongoing service improvement initiatives
• Demonstrating a commitment that the "voice" and lived experience of the child and young person is at the heart of all CYPS decision making and clinical care planning.

The post holder will work in collaboration with CYPS Senior Leads to deliver safe, efficient, high quality and effective services by providing strong clinical leadership and ensuring alignment of OT service priorities with the Directorate and Trust priorities and values.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

30 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-26-227

Job locations

Springbank Community Centre

Springbank Way,

Cheltenham,

GL51 0LG

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