A Vacancy at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will undertake highly skilled support work with children and young people who
need support from physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. This may include working with children on an individual basis or as part of a group. It will also include working in partnership with others who are involved in the child’s care, for example parents and carers, teachers, and other healthcare professionals.
Working to agreed protocols and guided by standard operating procedures, the post holder will be key in the treatment and care of children and young people and also their parent / carer where relevant. The post holder will be working under indirect supervision of registered practitioners in the team. This will involve taking responsibility for an identified and allocated caseload following screening or assessment by a registered practitioner and will a degree of autonomy depending on the degree of complexity and risk of the task being undertaken.
Work will be carried out in a variety of settings including health centres, schools, nurseries, patient’s homes or other community settings.
The post holder will undertake highly skilled support work with children and young people who
need support from physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. This may include working with children on an individual basis or as part of a group. It will also include working in partnership with others who are involved in the child’s care, for example parents and carers, teachers, and other healthcare professionals.
Working to agreed protocols and guided by standard operating procedures, the post holder will be key in the treatment and care of children and young people and also their parent / carer where relevant. The post holder will be working under indirect supervision of registered practitioners in the team. This will involve taking responsibility for an identified and allocated caseload following screening or assessment by a registered practitioner and will a degree of autonomy depending on the degree of complexity and risk of the task being undertaken.
Work will be carried out in a variety of settings including health centres, schools, nurseries, patient’s homes or other community settings.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
· Assessing to protocols
· Implementing treatment to protocols.
· Monitoring, evaluating and adjusting treatment within the scope of protocols.
· Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatment.
· May involve assessing for, ordering and issuing basic equipment.
· May include leading and assisting with group sessions
· May take the responsibility for the training of others, including delivering training.
· May involve delegating tasks to others.
· May involve supervising the routine tasks of others.
The post holder will work as part of the wider Health and Social Care Team linking with staff from the Acute Trust, Education and Social Care.
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The post holder will be required to undertake lone working in line with Trust policy.
Administrative duties and general patient care across departments are required.
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate self directed development and practice.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Mar 2025
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