Paediatric Therapy Assistant (OT / PT)

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to build skills and confidence working with children's Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in a small and supportive team. As a Therapy Assistant (OT/PT), you will work as part of a supportive Children's Therapy Team, delivering intervention and screening programmes under the guidance of senior registered colleagues. You will independently manage an allocated caseload. You will contribute to care planning, service delivery and collaborative working across community Work under the guidance and supervision of registered clinicians to manage your own caseload within a defined area of the service with support and supervision Undertake a holistic functional assessment with clients, including defining individual goals, assessing transfers, mobility and functional activity Plan, initiate, modify and complete a range of therapy programmes, evaluating outcomes achieved and discharging clients when appropriate. Complete specific allocated tasks such as the delivery and fitting of equipment Deliver training and advice to settings, practitioners / carers., You will:

• Work within a competency based framework to manage an allocated caseload of clients. Work independently or jointly with qualified therapists (dependent on competencies gained and level of complexity), to fully assess client needs including physical, functional, social and cognitive aspects. Plan, review and modify treatment directly in line with client goals and outcomes achieved per intervention.
• Take responsibility for managing own caseload within required timescales, proactively accessing regular supervision and support to do so. Plan, facilitate and complete discharge including provision of information to relevant professionals.
• Complete telephone screening to enable flow of patients through pathways.
• Deliver parent based groups (in person or virtually).
• Document interventions within Trust standards on SystmOne. Work closely with other members of the MDT in order to provide holistic child centered care.
• To provide advice to other health, education and social care professionals in the clinical area of Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
• Audit response to treatment, develop and modify resources and ways of working in line with current research.
• Actively engage in training, supervision, reflection and annual reviews. Be proactive in accessing support when needed, managing risks as they occur and being responsible for ensuring appropriate level of activity against individual Job Plan.
  
  The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.