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Job summary

Main area
Paediatrics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent: static post
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref
319-6431955HN
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Riverside Family Hub
Town
North Shields
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Paediatric Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor

NHS AfC: Band 3

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.

 

 

Job overview

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 two vacant posts one to work into the community seeing children in mainstream settings and the other post will work and be based across two of our special schools, Woodlawn and Beacon Hill.

 

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

Our team is based at The Riverside Children's Centre in North Shields. We see children 0 -18 years for a variety of reasons.  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. 

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Maths/English GCSE or equivalent (Sound general education).
Desirable criteria
  • NVQ 3 Associate Member of British Association of Occupational Therapists.

Experience and Knowledge

Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience as an OT Assistant.
  • Experience of working with individuals with physical disability e.g. reduced mobility.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alison Watson
Job title
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 6434160
Additional information

Would welcome potential candidates to arrange to come and meet the team

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