Band 5 Paediatric Occupational Therapist - Northumberland, United Kingdom - Atlantis Medical

Atlantis Medical

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Northumberland, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Location:
Northumberland

Start Date:

ASAP

Working Pattern:
Full Time, Part Time, Flexible working

The Client

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 homeand 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 experienceprogrammes of any trust in England.

The Role

We are delighted to be able to offer a committed and dynamic newly qualified or existing Occupational Therapist the opportunity to join our team in North Tyneside.

This is a 12-month fixed term, full time contract that can also be taken up as secondment.

Aspart of this role, the post holder will have the opportunity to gain a wealth of knowledge and experience working with children alongside experienced therapists in the different areas provided by the service, these include carrying out comprehensive assessmentsof a child's motor, perceptual and physical abilities, treatment sessions, either individual or groupwork, equipment and adaptations.

This is a busy team and provides a good variety and range of experience to work with children who attend mainstream schools,specialist provision and carry out community-based assessments.

We work in close partnership with colleagues in health, education and social care to provide a high quality and excellent service.

We have excellent working relationships with our colleagues inNewcastle to assist in hospital discharges and sharing knowledge.

A typical day working in this team could include a visit to a mainstream school to carry out an assessment of fine motor function to support child's access to their learning, back to the officefor lunch, carry out a home visit to support a child and their family to participate safely in activities of daily living then returning back to the office to complete admin tasks.

Skills & Abilities