Children’s Occupational Therapist | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum, inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6146294/393-NMUH-1284 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wishes to develop specialist skills in Paediatrics within a supportive team. We are looking for a creative, friendly and enthusiastic OT to join our established Children’s Team. We are located within easy commuter links from central London/Hertfordshire.
This is a newly created Special School full-time OT post working across Russet House School and Durants School OT team. Russet House is a primary school for autistic children. Durants is a secondary school for Autistic students. You will have the chance to develop the service provision across the schools alongside 2 other OT colleagues. The role will include staff/parent training and class-based provision as well as specialist individual work. You will also be providing OT support to Russet House families and Durants School families in the school holidays.
To develop and provide Occupational Therapy services for pupils who attend Russet House School and Durants School.
Contact:
Lauren Braham clinical lead.
Telephone 02087025630
Email lauren.braham1@nhs.net
To work within the Russet House and the Durants school OT team to develop and provide Occupational Therapy services for Pupils who attend Russet House School and Durants school (a maintained special school for Autistic Pupils, 3-11 years and 11-19 years) both at home and school.
To provide high quality child centred, occupationally focused assessment and intervention to Russet House Pupils/ Durants school pupils and their families.
To work with the OT team and school Leadership to plan and develop the OT service into Russet House school/ Durants school working at a Universal, Targeted and Specialist level.
To contribute to and lead on aspects of planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service. To contribute to and lead on specified service improvements in relation to the post and quality initiatives within the team.
To work as an autonomous practitioner with access to supervision.
To supervise, appraise and train Pupils and junior staff as required.
To work effectively and flexibly within an interdisciplinary framework in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment, including working with teachers, community providers, social workers, SLT, psychologists, dieticians, paediatricians, physiotherapists and other professionals
To be flexible to the demands of the service in regard to location of work and area of clinical specialism.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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• To manage a school caseload of young people with a range of needs including those with complex disabilities, providing occupationally focused assessment and intervention.
• To work with the Russet House school team/ Durants school team to develop a high quality, evidence-based service provision into Russet House school and Durants school. This will include staff training and Universal and Targeted provision as well as Specialist support.
• To provide both home and school-based OT input to the Pupils in Russet House school/ Durants school focusing on occupational areas of need and preparing Pupils for adulthood.
• To set occupationally focused intervention goals with children and/or their parents/carers and schools that are child centred and agreed by the child and/or their parents/carers and school staff.
• To set and maintain high standards of clinical practice, which is evidence based, and includes outcome measures to monitor achievement of person-centred goals and whole class approaches.
• To work alongside teaching staff to provide class based targeted intervention packages of care.
• To work within an occupational frame of reference.
• To demonstrate the ability to analyse the interplay of the child, environment and activity when assessing the child’s level of functioning and identifying appropriate strategies and intervention to facilitate and enhance participation in self-care, school and play/leisure.
• To devise and manage a specialised treatment plan individual to a child’s presenting condition through: occupationally focused intervention, school equipment provision (as appropriate), school and parental support & training, advice & strategies and programmes.
• To form productive relationships with parents/carers who may be under stress.
• To advise and teach parents/carers and school staff of children with additional needs on appropriate on-going Occupational Therapy management programmes. To develop integrated support plans with schools,
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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