Children's Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting and rare opportunity for an Occupational Therapist position in our North Locality; Oak Tree Centre, Huntingdon.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our fantastic Team. We want you to help us to make a real difference in children and young people’s lives. In return we will provide regular supervision, mentorship, and training under the preceptorship programme so that you enjoy and develop within children’s services.

Our service has been a fully integrated OT service combining health and social care roles for many years. This role is based in the community and will involve working at your clinic base, local special schools, family homes, mainstream schools and local pre-school settings. Children seen will have range of disabilities and developmental delays aged between 0-19 years old.

The post-holder will maintain strong links and at times work along-side their specialist housing team-within-a-team OT colleagues who support children and families with major housing adaptations.

The successful candidate will require an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Clearance as the post involves working with children.

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 17th August 2026

The Postholder will be given a thorough induction to the specialist area.

As you advance through your competencies you will be expected to achieve an increasing level of autonomy demonstrated through your professionalism, continuing professional development (CPD), conduct, and level of responsibility.

To provide an integrated Occupational Therapy service to children and young people and their families, this will involve crossing traditional health and social care boundaries and promoting close, effective working relationships with Cambridgeshire County Council, schools, and other members of the health multi-disciplinary team.

You will be responsible for your own caseload and, when appropriate, in a supervisory capacity for that of Therapy Assistants and/or students working within your team.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lynn Higgisson Job title: Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address: [email protected]

Anna Clark-Frew, Team Lead Occupational Therapist

Email: [email protected]