Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team in North Tyneside invites a committed Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our busy service. You will work with children across schools, homes and community settings to support participation in daily activities.

The role involves comprehensive assessments of motor, perceptual and physical abilities, delivering individual or group therapy, and contributing to service development with an experienced team.

Qualifications

• Experience and passion to work with children.
• Band 7 level in Paediatric OT (Band 7 post).
• Strong assessment and treatment skills in paediatric settings.

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive assessments of a child's motor, perceptual and physical abilities.
• Deliver treatment sessions, either individual or group work.
• Visit mainstream schools to assess fine motor function and support access to learning.
• Conduct home visits to enable participation in daily living activities.
• Contribute to development work streams and service improvements.

Job description

We are delighted to be able to be able to be able to invite a committed and dynamic Occupational Therapist the opportunity to apply for our band 7 post to join Northumbria Healthcare and work with the Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team based 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. There are many opportunities to develop your skills as a band 7 within a supportive and nurturing team.

As part of this role, the post holder will need to have a wealth of knowledge and experience working with children to join our experienced therapists 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 groupwork, 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. There are opportunities to be part of development work streams as we strive to improve our service delivery and offer for the children, young people and their 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 upon 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison Watson Job title: Clinical Lead Paediatric Occupational Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0191 2196604