Overview

Bank Band 7 Occupational Therapist – Surrey – South East Surrey

As a Bank Band 7 Occupational Therapist we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:

  • Flexible Shift Booking – Self-book bank shifts and request time off up to six weeks in advance for a better work-life balance.
  • Wagestream Access – Track and access earned wages anytime, avoiding high-interest loans or overdrafts.
  • Professional Growth – Gain experience across various services, access free training, and join our Strive for Better professional network.
  • 24/7 Well-being Support – Free counselling, legal advice, financial guidance, and career coaching.
  • Innovative Culture – Share ideas, apply for national funding, and contribute to service improvements.
  • Recognition & Engagement – Nominate colleagues for awards and participate in executive Q&A sessions.
  • Commitment to Excellence – Be part of a team with “Good” or “Outstanding” CQC-rated services.

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced and compassionate Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step in your career?

We are seeking a skilled Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary Children’s Community Health Team. In this vital role, you will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and evidence-based Occupational Therapy (OT) intervention to children and young people with complex needs. 

To work with education and other professionals and parents/carers to support the OT needs of children with Education and Health Care Plans (EHCPs). To ensure a high standard of child centred service delivery is achieved in line with best practice and commissioning intentions

Base:
You will be based at one of our Surrey-wide office hubs, with the flexibility of hybrid working to support your professional and personal needs.

At HCRG Care Group, we are proud to be a flexible-first employer. Our agile working approach allows our teams to thrive in a supportive and adaptable environment while delivering high-quality care.

Responsibilities

  • Day-to day line management of a team of therapy professionals. 
  • Providing high quality, specialist, child centred care for children on a designated OT caseload.
  • Working with educational professionals, carers and the multidisciplinary team to provide a co-ordinated approach to children and young people’s OT needs, within their Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). 
  • Providing timely OT advice, reports and management plans to be integrated within the child or young person’s daily curriculum, including attending Annual Review meetings and updating OT recommendations and provision, as part of a child or young person’s EHCP.
  • Provide information, relevant training and support to parents, carers and education/other professionals. 
  • Participating in the Tribunal process for relevant children, as requested by the Service Manager and Local Authority. 
  • Contributing to service key performance targets 
  • Working with the Children’s Community Health Team and Service Manager on operational issues and service developments. • Working alongside and liaising with the Children’s Community Health Team over the needs of child/ young person and service provision. 
  • Supervising, supporting and allocating work to assistants, OT students and less experienced therapists 
  • Providing highly specialist knowledge and skills, including training and support, within relevant clinical area, to other OTs and other professionals and assistants

Ideal Candidate

Essential

  • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy; HCPC registered and RCOT member

  • Post-graduate training/experience in child development, neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD, ADHD), sensory needs

  • Strong evidence of ongoing CPD and substantial post-registration paediatric experience

  • Skilled in paediatric OT assessment, intervention planning (including SMART goals), and delivery of tailored programmes

  • Confident managing a varied caseload with complex needs and working effectively within multidisciplinary and educational settings

  • Experience supervising OT staff/assistants and delivering training

  • Good knowledge of child development, specialist equipment, postural management, safeguarding, SEND processes and relevant health/education policies

  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex or sensitive information to children, families and professionals

  • Strong problem-solving, clinical reasoning, time-management and IT skills; accurate written records

  • Able to adapt practice, work independently, manage pressure, and engage in physically active sessions

  • Full UK driving licence and access to a car for work

Desirable

  • Membership of a relevant Special Interest Group

  • Clinical Educator qualification

  • NHS experience and involvement in student education

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

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