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Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated therapy assistant to join our Integrated Therapy team working alongside and being supported by experienced therapists within our team comprising of SLT.

You will work both independently and alongside Therapists, other assistants, education staff and families to deliver therapy, training and advice for children and young people with a range of needs.

You will benefit from being part of a supportive, experienced group of staff providing a clinically effective service to children and young people and their families in Barnet.

Main duties of the job

Your key responsibilities will include:

Working within one or more Pathways:

  • Speech, Voice & Dysfluency Pathway
  • Language and Hearing Impairment Pathway
  • Social Communication Pathway
  • Complex Specific Pathway
  • Motor Skills and Sensory based needs Pathway.

Supporting children's integrated therapists in the role of early identification and prevention for children with therapeutic needs through observation, providing information, directing to services

Delivering therapy programmes to individuals or groups in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children's Centres reporting back progress and informing the Integrated therapy team.

Working as part of a multi-professional team in partnership with families.

Jointly setting and reviewing targets.

Monitoring and recording progression and measuring outcomes.

Delivering planned training with parents and professionals online, and in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children's Centres.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Details

Date posted

24 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,081 to £33,665 a year pro rata per annum including (outer) HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, Term time hours, Annualised hours

Reference number

220-WHT-2892

Job locations

Edware community

3rd Floor, Westgate House,

Edgware

HA8 0AD


Job description

Job responsibilities

  1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
  2. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
  3. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
  4. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
  5. To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people

Job description

Job responsibilities

  1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
  2. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
  3. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
  4. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
  5. To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • ominimum of 5 GCSE's or equivalent
  • oApplication form Evidence of clinical development and learning related to therapies.

Desirable

  • oNVQ level 2/3

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • oBasic awareness of IT and IT skills
  • Good organisational skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • oAt least two years experience working with Children and Young people
  • oEvidence of continued development and learning in a therapy area
  • oAbility to communicate with children with impaired communication,
  • oAble to demonstrate empathy and motivate children with impaired cognitive abilities or physical senses

Desirable

  • oGeneral Knowledge of child development

Other

Essential

  • oTo be aware and demonstrate the trust values
  • oTo be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Desirable

  • Car driver

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential

  • Putting people first
  • Prioritising quality
  • Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
  • Being professional and honest
  • Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity and choice
Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • ominimum of 5 GCSE's or equivalent
  • oApplication form Evidence of clinical development and learning related to therapies.

Desirable

  • oNVQ level 2/3

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • oBasic awareness of IT and IT skills
  • Good organisational skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • oAt least two years experience working with Children and Young people
  • oEvidence of continued development and learning in a therapy area
  • oAbility to communicate with children with impaired communication,
  • oAble to demonstrate empathy and motivate children with impaired cognitive abilities or physical senses

Desirable

  • oGeneral Knowledge of child development

Other

Essential

  • oTo be aware and demonstrate the trust values
  • oTo be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Desirable

  • Car driver

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential

  • Putting people first
  • Prioritising quality
  • Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
  • Being professional and honest
  • Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity and choice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Edware community

3rd Floor, Westgate House,

Edgware

HA8 0AD


Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Edware community

3rd Floor, Westgate House,

Edgware

HA8 0AD


Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Pathway Lead

Georgea Pitsillou

georgea.pitsillou@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

24 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,081 to £33,665 a year pro rata per annum including (outer) HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, Term time hours, Annualised hours

Reference number

220-WHT-2892

Job locations

Edware community

3rd Floor, Westgate House,

Edgware

HA8 0AD


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