Children's Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy Assistant Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Are you looking for a new challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our vibrant and innovative community of children’s occupational therapy and physiotherapy services.
You will be based in the South Cambridge area and your role will predominantly involve working within a special school, clinic, home, and mainstream school/nursery settings supporting the Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist.
As well as working within the special schools, you will also be visiting mainstream schools and local pre-school settings and working within a clinic setting supporting OT and Physiotherapy Services. Children seen will have range of disabilities and developmental delays.
Your role will be instrumental in supporting our therapists in the delivery of care to the children and families accessing the services which will include administration tasks. You will also carry out clinical interventions under the direction of the therapists.
There is a strong commitment from Cambridgeshire Community Services for continued professional development for all members of staff.
The successful candidate will be put forward for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service as the post involves working with children.
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
The post holder will be responsible to work flexibly to assist occupational therapists and physiotherapists in their clinical and administrative work, including data entry. The post holder will carry out clinical interventions under the direction of the therapists in special school, clinic, home and mainstream school/nursery settings. The client group is children and young people (0-19 years) with disabilities and developmental delays.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
To carry out clinical interventions with children and young people under the direction of the Physio and/or OT. This includes children/young people of pre-school and school age, including those attending local special schools.
To support therapists in clinic settings to carry out standardised assessments and record findings.
To support therapists in the provision, correct prescription and monitoring of specialist equipment and orthotics for children/young people.
The post holder may be required to visit children/young people at home, under the direction of the therapist.
To monitor the children/young people’s progress and recognise when to discuss any changes with the therapist (apart from discussions already scheduled).
To make observations about children/young people’s abilities and responses to activities and to feed these back to the therapist in order to assist in assessment and therapy.
To assist the therapist’s in the organisation and delivery of training to other professionals and parents as appropriate.
To liaise with Equipment Company Representatives to set up assessments and obtain quotes for equipment for children and young people.
To work flexibly to support the diverse work of the Physio and Occupational Therapy Teams in supporting the care of children and young people, prioritising the work which is asked of them.
