Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated therapy assistant to join our Integrated Therapy team working alongside and being supported by experienced therapists within our team comprising of SLT.

You will work both independently and alongside Therapists, other assistants, education staff and families to deliver therapy, training and advice for children and young people with a range of needs.

You will benefit from being part of a supportive, experienced group of staff providing a clinically effective service to children and young people and their families in Barnet.

Main duties of the job

Your key responsibilities will include:

Working within one or more Pathways:

Speech, Voice & Dysfluency Pathway Language and Hearing Impairment Pathway Social Communication Pathway Complex Specific Pathway Motor Skills and Sensory based needs Pathway.

Supporting children’s integrated therapists in the role of early identification and prevention for children with therapeutic needs through observation, providing information, directing to services

Delivering therapy programmes to individuals or groups in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Centres reporting back progress and informing the Integrated therapy team.

Working as part of a multi-professional team in partnership with families.

Jointly setting and reviewing targets.

Monitoring and recording progression and measuring outcomes.

Delivering planned training with parents and professionals online, and in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Centres. 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

•minimum of 5 GCSE’s or equivalent •Application form Evidence of clinical development and learning related to therapies.

Desirable criteria

•NVQ level 2/3

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

•Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Good organisational skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

•At least two years experience working with Children and Young people •Evidence of continued development and learning in a therapy area •An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities •Ability to communicate with children with impaired communication, •Ability to support children with physical and sensory difficulties. •Able to demonstrate empathy and motivate children with impaired cognitive abilities or physical senses

Desirable criteria

•General Knowledge of child development

Other

Essential criteria

•To be aware and demonstrate the trust values •To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Desirable criteria

Car driver

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential criteria

Putting people first Prioritising quality Being progressive, innovative and continually improve Being professional and honest Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity and choice

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines. Participate in required training and supervision. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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