Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Edgware is seeking an Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner to support the Integrated Therapy team. You'll work with therapists and families to deliver therapy to children with various needs. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 GCSEs, experience with children, and great organizational skills. Join a supportive team while contributing to the care of young patients.

Qualifications

• At least two years experience working with Children and Young people.
• Evidence of continued development and learning in a therapy area.
• Ability to communicate with children with impaired communication.
• Ability to support children with physical and sensory difficulties.
• General Knowledge of child development.
• An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities.

Responsibilities

• Organizing and prioritizing own workload in day-to-day tasks.
• Providing accurate records of information for audit purposes.
• Evaluating the quality of own work and raising quality issues.

Skills

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

Good organisational skills

Education

Minimum of 5 GCSE's or equivalent

Evidence of clinical development and learning related to therapies

NVQ level 2/3

Job description

Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated therapy assistant to join our Integrated Therapy team working alongside and being supported by experienced therapists within our team comprising of Speech and language therapists and Occupational Therapists.

You will work both independently and alongside Therapists, other assistants, education staff and families to deliver therapy, training and advice for children and young people with a range of needs.

You will benefit from being part of a supportive, experienced group of staff providing a clinically effective service to children and young people and their families in Barnet.

Main duties of the job

Your key responsibilities will include:

Working within one or more Pathways under an SLT and OT:

• Language and Hearing Impairment Pathway
• Social Communication Pathway
• Complex Specific Pathway
• Motor Skills and Sensory based needs Pathway.

Supporting children's integrated therapists in the role of early identification and prevention for children with therapeutic needs through observation, providing information, directing to services

Delivering therapy programmes to individuals or groups in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children's Centres reporting back progress and informing the Integrated therapy team.

Working as part of a multi-professional team in partnership with families.

Jointly setting and reviewing targets.

Monitoring and recording progression and measuring outcomes.

Delivering planned training with parents and professionals online, and in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children's Centres.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people

Person Specification

Education

• Minimum of 5 GCSE's or equivalent
• Evidence of clinical development and learning related to therapies.
• NVQ level 2/3

Skills & Abilities

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Good organisational skills

Knowledge & Experience

• At least two years experience working with Children and Young people
• Evidence of continued development and learning in a therapy area
• Ability to communicate with children with impaired communication,
• Ability to support children with physical and sensory difficulties.
• General Knowledge of child development
• An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities

Other

• oTo be aware and demonstrate the trust values
• oTo be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Demonstration of Trust Values

• Putting people first
• Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity and choice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£32,199 to £34,876 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata) Including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours,Term time hours,Annualised hours