Occupational Therapy/physiotherapy Assistant
5 months ago
This post sits within the Women and Children’s Care Group which is responsible for Maternity Services and Gynaecology within North Cumbria and Children's Health Services County wide.
The Care Group provides community clinical services across Cumbria, including health visiting, community children’s nursing, therapy services, community paediatrics, audiology.
Non clinical support services, such as buildings and estate services are also provided.
The Directorate works with other NHS organisations in Cumbria to support the integration of clinical services to improve the health and well being of children and young people under the age of 19 years.
The Directorate also works in partnership with other organisations, statutory and non statutory, to ensure that health services contribute to improving the social and educational outcomes of the young people of Cumbria; and that other services support the improvement of health & well being.
Children’s Services Directorate has a lead role and responsibility in protecting children, and in supporting other health agencies and partner organisations to safeguard children and young people.
To work as a member of the children’s specialist team, providing a physiotherapy and occupational therapy service for pre-school and school age children referred to the service.
To accept an agreed range of patients referred by a therapist, and manage a delegated caseload, providing interventions in an appropriate environment, e.g. patient homes, special schools, child development centre.
Treat children according to set treatment protocols, monitoring child progression, make minor alterations to child treatment programmes under supervision of the referring therapist.
To provide administration and general clerical duties for the therapy team, as required.
To assist therapists in the organisation and running of clinics in various settings eg wheelchair clinics, orthotic clinics and child development centre clinics.
To promote health and reduce inequalities for children, young people, families and communities, so that they may be able to maximise their potential in terms of health, education and social well-being.
To work as a member of the integrated team for children throughout the district to ensure high quality co-ordinated patient care using a Care Aims approach.
To work with direct and indirect supervision within agreed protocols as an effective member of the children’s specialist therapy team undertaking skilled support work and a specified range of therapy interventions to patients and reporting back child progress, informing relevant therapist of any problems/ concerns.
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.
We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
The essential criteria for this role includes the requirement to have a care certificate or the willingness and ability to undertake this. For further information, please see the additional information link which can be viewed under the “read this before applying” section.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
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