Occupational Therapy Assistant (Community) Band 3 United Kingdom
Job description
We are seeking a dynamic, caring person, with experience of working with children, to join our occupational therapy team as an occupational therapy assistant on a permanent basis.
The role will primarily be to support our Occupational Therapy service and you will work across South Sefton in a variety of community settings such as children's homes, clinics nurseries and schools.
Our community therapy service works with children aged 0-18 (19 in special schools), who have a neuro disability motor co-ordination difficulties, sensory difficulties or developmental delay. We are a small supportive team which includes occupational therapists, admin support, physiotherapy assistants and physiotherapists.
There is an in-service training programme with lots of opportunities for supervision and peer support. We have strong links with staff in acute services at Alder Hey and work in an integrated way with education and socials services colleagues across the city.
If you are interested in this post and would like to hear more, please contact Helen Crosdale (Deputy to Head of Service, Community Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy) on 0151 252 5836 or via email [email protected]
To provide Occupational Therapy support to the Occupational Therapy team
To be an integral member of the Occupational Therapy team, assisting the Occupational Therapists to deliver management and treatment of the children referred to the service.
To follow agreed treatment plans provided by the Occupational Therapist, delivering a high standard of paediatric Occupational Therapy and providing on-going liaison with the Occupational Therapist regarding children’s management.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
Great flexible working opportunities
Discounted gym membership
Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
Generous annual leave and pension scheme
Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Clinical
To manage and prioritise workload as delegated by the therapist.
To support the delivery of Occupational Therapy training to parents, carers and other professionals.
To assist the therapist in the delivery of Occupational Therapy intervention using a range of delegated activities and treatment methods.
To ensure patient and parent/carer understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
Deliver individual therapy programmes as provided by the therapist and to instruct patients and carers in the use of these.
To liaise when appropriate with the therapist regarding patient care. In particular highlighting any variations to expected outcomes from treatment programmes you deliver.
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