A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Team has an excellent opportunity to help support delivery of therapeutic interventions for children living in North Tyneside. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who has experience and a passion to work with children to join our well established Paediatric Occupational Therapy team.
We work with children who are experiencing difficulties to participate in activities of daily living. This is a community-based service providing a variety of working environments including working into our special schools.
We have one vacant post one to work into the community and into two of our special schools, Woodlawn and Beacon Hill.
Our team is based at The Riverside Children's Centre in North Shields. We see children 0 -18 years for a variety of reasons.
Our team is very welcoming, friendly and a well established Children’s Occupational Therapy Team who have the team's well-being at the heart of everything we do. We welcome new and enthusiastic minds to bring new ideas and innovation to help shape our service. This is a community post therefore car driver or access to transport is essential.
We are keen to support and encourage Continuous Professional Development to enhance skills and knowledge of individual staff members and to utilise skills within the team and shape service delivery.
This post holders will be working to support the therapists working across a number of environments. The successful post holder will work alongside qualified Occupational Therapists and work closely with our Physiotherapy colleagues to support the therapists to deliver joint targeted treatment interventions individual to each child. The interventions will include supporting the children to use their specialist equipment or orthotics provided by the therapists to facilitate the children's play experiences and participation in activities of daily living. These include providing the children to have opportunities to participate in fine and gross motor activities which is individually graded to optimise learning potential, supporting teaching staff.
We are a supportive team who work closely with all our other therapy colleagues and professional involved in the child's care to deliver a high-quality service to our families.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Under the direction and supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist (OT) the post holder will be expected to: Be responsible for the delivery of occupational therapy base line assessments and interventions to a delegated caseload of children on a group or individual basis, and in a variety of settings. With regular support from supervising therapist plan, implement and modify treatment programmes under defined parameters. Co-facilitate training sessions and develop appropriate resources Provide appropriate information, support and advice to children and their parents/carers with support, supervision and direction from qualified therapists. Carry out general administration tasks both electronically and on paper. Be responsible for own life-long learning.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Oct 2024
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