A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit 3 band 4 Paediatric Therapy assistants or Assistant Practitioners, to join our friendly and dynamic Children's Community therapy team working across Salford. The team includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistants and administration staff and provides services to children from 0-19 with a range of conditions, from developmental delay to complex physical and learning disabilities. The posts are either full time (37.5 hours) or part time (minimum 22.75 hours) with the hours to be worked between 8:30 and 5:30 Monday to Friday. This will enable the successful candidates to agree a working pattern that supports an improved work life balance, whilst still meeting the needs of our caseloads.
If you are an experienced therapy assistant, teaching assistant or have experience of exercise prescription, then you will have transferable skills that you can bring to this role, to work with children and young people with additional needs or disabilities and support them to develop and maximise their skills and abilities and reach their full potential.
In addition to the teams monthly in service training programme and Assistant peer support group; in house training and regular supervision will be provided to support development of your skills to enable you to complete the more advanced parts of these roles.
The post is varied with a mixture of clinical, non-clinical and administrative duties. These duties will include:
• Working with children in various settings such as clinics, nurseries, schools and children's own homes, as part of the multi-disciplinary team with Occupational Therapists and physiotherapists
• Undertaking blocks of therapy intervention
• Provision and review of specialist equipment
• Organisation of a delegated clinic, care pathways or training offers
• Advice and guidance to parents and professionals on implementing therapy programmes in children's every day lives
• Supporting audit and service development
• Development of therapy programmes and resources
• Management of clinical and non clinical information
• Support for more junior therapy assistants.
You will work both jointly with the physios and OT's as well as autonomously in the community.
The successful candidate will be computer literate, will be required to have access to a car for use for work and due to the nature of the work, we are looking for people who are able to work autonomously and are confident liaising with families and other professionals.
A passion to help people, work as a team and a desire to want to make a difference are the characteristics that we are seeking for this role.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:
This advert closes on Friday 20 Dec 2024
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