Therapy Assistant

4 weeks ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established orthopaedic, burns, plastics, and limb reconstruction therapy team at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

You should be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You should share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

You will be a key member of the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams, who provide care to children in both an in and outpatient setting. The BOPP’s team are a large experienced, friendly, supportive, compassionate, and forward-thinking team, and you will gain a wealth of knowledge, skills, and experience through working with them and with a diverse patient group.

You will be responsible for carrying out direct patient contact under the supervision of a qualified professional, maintaining and ordering a range of equipment, maintaining patient databases, and working in a range of inpatient, outpatient, and clinic settings in a rapidly changing environment. You will be flexible, organised and have great interpersonal skills.
- To provide specific skilled support to qualified physiotherapists and occupational therapists by assisting in the assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the service.
- To work under the indirect supervision of a qualified therapist.
- To independently carry out planned activities of daily living and rehabilitation to individual children.
- To provide support in the sourcing and provision of equipment and assistive aids
- To undertake appropriate administrative, clerical and housekeeping duties.

Sheffield Children’s is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.

We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision “to create a healthier future for children and young people.”
- Outstanding patient care
- Brilliant place to work
- Leader in children’s health

Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including; generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.

We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work. This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place. Colleagues are encouraged to join these groups and request flexible working,

CLINICAL
- To provide assistance to all aspects of the inpatient and outpatient services within the clinical specialities of Orthopaedics, Burns and Plastics, PLRS and Spinal surgery either independently or in conjunction with a qualified therapist.
- To assist qualified therapists in the physical assessment and treatment of children and young people.
- To manage a personal caseload of children as delegated by the qualified therapist.
- Following instructions from a qualified member of staff to independently execute a treatment programme with a child using a variety of activities to support the child's independence and rehabilitation e.g. bath and toilet transfers, dressing and use of assistive equipment.
- To be responsible for decision making during treatment following agreed protocols or guidelines from qualified staff.
- To recognise when a child needs re-assessing and / or treatment programmes need changing and communicate with qualified staff accordingly.
- To possess a basic understanding of illness and disability, safety issues, treatment techniques and the ability to recognise the effectiveness of therapy intervention and the skill to refer back to a qualified therapist.
- To acknowledge any limitations in competence when accepting assigned duties from qualified staff.
- To attend and assist qualified professionals in assessing and managing specialist seating / wheelchair provision and other specialist equipment.
- To assist qualified therapists in the sourcing, assessment and ordering of disability equipment.
- To maintain high standards of housekeeping, orderliness, cleanliness and infection control measures for therapy equipment; including toys and assessment equipment.
- To be responsible for maintaining equipment, including basic safety checks in order to ensure safe and appropriate refurbishment of equipment.
- To possess a good understanding of safety and legal issues as applied to the provision of equipment for the management of disability or dysfunction.
- To be responsible for receiving and passing on information within the multi-disciplinary team. This includes the handling of confidential and sensitive information.
- To communicate effectively with children and families. This includes significant explanation of tasks requir

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