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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Accepting applications until: 24-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 24-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Riverside Family Hub
- Cyfeiriad
- Minton Lane
- Tref
- North Shields
- Cod post
- NE29 6DQ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: static
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (band 5)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Children's Occupational Therapist
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Our Team has an excellent opportunity for a qualified or newly qualified Occupational Therapist to join our established Children's Occupational Therapy team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who has experience and a passion to work with children. 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 working environment consist of clinics, home visits, schools nurseries and special schools.
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The post holder will be fully supported by experience Occupational therapists to develop their OT skills and knowledge whilst gaining experience working with children in the different areas provided by the service. These include carrying out comprehensive assessments of a child’s motor, perceptual and physical abilities, treatment sessions, either individual or group work, equipment and minor adaptations. This is a busy team and provides a good variety and range of experience to work with children who attend mainstream schools, specialist provision and carry out community-based assessments. We work in close partnership with colleagues in health, education and social care to provide a high quality and excellent service. We have excellent working relationships with our colleagues in Newcastle to assist in hospital discharges and sharing knowledge.
A typical day working in this team could include a visit to a mainstream school to carry out an assessment of fine motor function to support child’s access to their learning, back to the office for lunch, carry out a home visit to support a child and their family to participate safely in activities of daily living then returning back to the office to complete admin tasks.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Our team is very supportive, welcoming and friendly, well established Children’s Occupational Therapy Team who have the team's well-being at the heart of everything we do. We welcome new and enthusiastic minds to bring new ideas and innovation to help shape our service. This is a community post therefore car driver or access to transport is essential.
We encourage Continuous Professional Development and have regular opportunities to be part of regular in-service training both internal and external. We are more than welcome for you to come and visit our teams to help you decide if you would like to join us.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- To assess and review level of need and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard for clinical priorities and time management.
- To select and apply Occupational Therapy assessments in paediatrics, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the child to maximise functional independence in all areas of everyday activities.
- To work with children and their families to identify OT goals.
- Monitor, evaluate and modify interventions in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness. Alter and revise planned interventions as a result of changes in an individual’s level of function or circumstances.
- To assess and identify from a range of options, specific specialised children’s equipment to meet individual children’s postural and functional needs
- To assess for and provide major adaptations where appropriate and in line with local government criteria.
- To regularly supervise students on practice placement.
- To clinically supervise junior staff
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Diploma/Degree in OT
- HPC registered
Meini prawf dymunol
- Membership of professional body
Experience and Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Basic understanding, which will be developed following a period of inhouse induction, of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment
- Basic knowledge of clinical governance. Evidence of CPD.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Previous experience as a Band 5. Experience of working with children with physical disability.
- Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects
- Knowledge of team dynamics and team building.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Alison Watson
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 6434160
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
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