Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn
Location
King's Lynn, Norfolk | United Kingdom
Job description
A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
The Children's Occupational Therapy Team in The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit a band 6 Occupational Therapist to work in their well established and supportive team. Would you want to work with inspirational children and young people who have a physical disability or a difficulty which impacts on their day-to-day activities? Do you want to develop your junior career in paediatrics? If so, we could be the team for you!! We are looking for applicants to preferably have experience of working with CYP in a multi-disciplinary team, as you will be working as an integral part of a small experienced supportive team of OTs, PTs, and unregistered staff, and other members of the wider MDT. The post holder will support clinical intervention for children with neuro developmental and motor skills difficulties. You will have the opportunity to work with children aged 0 - 19 years in a variety of settings, including nurseries, schools and in our Children’s Centre on site, and have an opportunity to develop our services in specialist schools. We are looking for an excellent communicator who can prioritise a complex and varied case load, who can work autonomously as well as part of a team. Training and personal development is well supported. If this sounds like the role for you, or if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us! Caseload management of a community caseload within the west Norfolk locality. Assessment and intervention of children and young people aged between 0-19, using standardised assessments and evidence-based treatment techniques. Working in a variety of community settings, including mainstream schools, early years settings and nurseries and clinics. Contribution to Education Health and Care plans for children on your caseload, and awareness of the SEND agenda overall. Contribution to peer supervision. Working alongside other health professionals including physiotherapists, therapy assistants, GPs, Consultant Paediatricians. Providing supervision to students, therapy assistants and other qualified members of the OT Team. Ordering and management of equipment needs for the children on caseload using the recognised system. The detailed job description and main responsibilities are detailed within the attached documents. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House. We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network. In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures). Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the job role. This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Feb 2024Job tags
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