Job Introduction
Join us as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist Assistant, in our SEND Therapy Service in West Essex.
As a SEND Paediatric Occupational Therapist Assistant, you will work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team providing Occupational Therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children, and to support them, their families and carers in self-management and care.
The post holder will be required to carry out general and specialist clinical tasks in support of the Paediatric OT team in the delivery of high quality care.
The emphasis for their work is to work under the supervision of qualified therapists in support of therapy care plans; however there will be instances where the post holder will be required to work as an autonomous practitioner.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering delegated aspects of the care plan under the supervision of registered clinicians.
Under guidance of registered staff carry out and supervise individual and group sessions in the framework of care pathways within Paediatric Occupational Therapy.
To assist in the administrative work of the Occupational Therapists in the team, particularly in relation to specialist equipment provision.
Main Responsibility
Your key responsibilities will be:
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Under guidance of supervising Occupational Therapist, to visit child’s home, nursery or school to review and order appropriate equipment for postural management and moving and handling.
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To adjust equipment and provide instruction to all carers on safe equipment use e.g., seating, bathing , toileting and sleep systems.
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Plan and provide programmes of therapeutic activities tailored to individuals and groups within a framework laid down by the registered therapists
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Provide and receive a range of routine, complex and sensitive information to patients and carers using tact, persuasion and adapted communication techniques as necessary, overcoming barriers to communication.
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Provide advice, instruction and/or training to groups
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Experience working with children with SEND
- Experience of working as part of a team and independently where appropriate
- literacy and numeracy skills
- Knowledge and skills acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses, in-house training and experience to diploma level or equivalent.
- Clear accurate recording and reporting skills
- Driving licence and access to car for work purposes.
Package Description
As a SEND Paediatric Occupational Therapist Assistant, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Starting salary of £24,000 plus Group Pension.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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