Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor - Paediatric North Shields, England
Job description
Our Team has an excellent opportunity working in partnership with the Local Authority to support delivery of therapeutic interventions for children living in North Tyneside. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who has experience and a passion to work with children to join our well established Paediatric Occupational Therapy team. We work with children who are experiencing difficulties to participate in activities of daily living. This is a community-based service providing a variety of working environments including working into our special schools. This post will be based in two of our special schools, Woodlawn and Beacon Hill.
Our team is based at The Riverside Children's Centre in North Shields, We see children 0 -18 years for a variety of reasons. We are a supportive team who work closely with all our other therapy colleagues and professional involved the child's care to deliver a high quality service to our families. Throughout the pandemic the service continued, finding innovative ways to support our families in a Covid safe way. The nature and strengths with in the team were demonstrated in the determination and support of each other throughout this challenging and uncertain time.
This post holder will be working between mainstream and special schools including Woodlawn and Beacon Hill to support the therapists working into the school. The successful post holder will work alongside qualified Occupational Therapists and work closely with our Physiotherapy colleagues to support the therapists to deliver targeted treatment interventions individual to each child. The interventions will include supporting the children to use their specialist equipment or orthotics provided by the therapists to facilitate the children's play experiences and participation in activities of daily living. These include providing the children to have opportunities to participate in fine and gross motor activities which is individually graded to optimise learning potential, supporting teaching staff.
We are keen to support and encourage Continuous Professional Development to enhance skills and knowledge of individual staff members and to utilise skills within the team and shape service delivery.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.
Under the direction and supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist (OT) the post holder
will be expected to:
- Be responsible for the delivery of occupational therapy base line assessments and
of settings.
- With regular support from supervising therapist plan, implement and modify treatment
- Co-facilitate training sessions and develop appropriate resources
- Provide appropriate information, support and advice to children and their parents/carers with support, supervision and direction from qualified therapists.
- Carry out general administration tasks both electronically and on paper.
- Be responsible for own life-long learning.
