Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapist

We have two posts available for enthusiastic and committed Occupational Therapists to be Clinical Specialists within the field of early years, adaptations, sensory processing and physical disabilities. This is a Band 6 post and we would support through a competency framework to achieve band 7 status within a set timescale.

The post holder will provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children and young people who present with a wide variety of physical disabilities. Assessment for therapy, adaptations and supportive equipment will be completed in clinics, homes and schools to provide a more enabling environment for the child.

Annex 20

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

To provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children who present with a wide variety of conditions. These include complex, chronic, disabling and occasionally life limiting health, physical and developmental conditions. The Advanced Occupational Therapist as a highly specialist practitioner providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally including initiating, leading and participating in service planning, development, evaluation, audit/research.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

As an advanced practitioner the therapist will:

Effectively manage and prioritise a designated complex caseload of children and young people, evidencing high level problem solving, advanced clinical reasoning skills and independent judgement.

Provide highly specialist assessment, requiring specialist training and education, to identify children's occupational performance needs in self-care, productivity (school) and leisure.

As an autonomous practitioner contribute to the multi-disciplinary diagnosis of children.

Formulate, implement and evaluate highly specialist, child and family centred needs led, OT interventions for children and their families/carers.

Actively promote and maintain effective communication between multi-disciplinary professionals across agencies to ensure collaborative co- ordination, seamless, high quality care for children and their

Provide highly specialist advice, training and education to the OT team families/carers, and personnel from a variety of agencies in education, health, social services etc.

Continue to develop highly specialist, clinical expertise and maintain competence to practice through continuing professional development, participation in reflective practice, supervision/appraisal/PDP and the utilisation of best practiceIevidence base into current work practices

Are you passionate about supporting and promoting good practice with families, children/young people and health, social care and educational colleagues strengthening their skills in supporting the SEND agenda? We are delighted to be able to offer experienced and dynamic Occupational Therapists the opportunity to join our friendly and forward-thinking community children's OT service., Disability Confident
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