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Paediatric Occupational Therapist
band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Our Team has an excellent opportunity for a qualified or newly qualified Occupational Therapist to join our established Children's Occupational Therapy team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who has experience and a passion to work with children. 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 working environment consist of clinics, home visits, schools nurseries and special schools.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The post holder will be fully supported by experience Occupational therapists to develop their OT skills and knowledge whilst gaining experience working with children in the different areas provided by the service. These include carrying out comprehensive assessments of a child’s motor, perceptual and physical abilities, treatment sessions, either individual or group work, equipment and minor adaptations. This is a busy team and provides a good variety and range of experience to work with children who attend mainstream schools, specialist provision and carry out community-based assessments. We work in close partnership with colleagues in health, education and social care to provide a high quality and excellent service. We have excellent working relationships with our colleagues in Newcastle to assist in hospital discharges and sharing knowledge.
A typical day working in this team could include a visit to a mainstream school to carry out an assessment of fine motor function to support child’s access to their learning, back to the office for lunch, carry out a home visit to support a child and their family to participate safely in activities of daily living then returning back to the office to complete admin tasks.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Our team is very supportive, welcoming and friendly, 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 encourage Continuous Professional Development and have regular opportunities to be part of regular in-service training both internal and external. We are more than welcome for you to come and visit our teams to help you decide if you would like to join us.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- To assess and review level of need and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard for clinical priorities and time management.
- To select and apply Occupational Therapy assessments in paediatrics, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the child to maximise functional independence in all areas of everyday activities.
- To work with children and their families to identify OT goals.
- Monitor, evaluate and modify interventions in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness. Alter and revise planned interventions as a result of changes in an individual’s level of function or circumstances.
- To assess and identify from a range of options, specific specialised children’s equipment to meet individual children’s postural and functional needs
- To assess for and provide major adaptations where appropriate and in line with local government criteria.
- To regularly supervise students on practice placement.
- To clinically supervise junior staff
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Diploma/Degree in OT
- HPC registered
Meini prawf dymunol
- Membership of professional body
Experience and Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Basic understanding, which will be developed following a period of inhouse induction, of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment
- Basic knowledge of clinical governance. Evidence of CPD.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Previous experience as a Band 5. Experience of working with children with physical disability.
- Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects
- Knowledge of team dynamics and team building.
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Alison Watson
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 6434160
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Welcome to arrange to visit the team
Rhestr swyddi gyda Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust yn Proffesiynau perthynol i iechyd neu bob sector