Band 4: £26,530 to £29,114 a year pro rata
PERMANENT GOOD SALARY
CASELOAD FAMILY NHS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
The Children's Occupational Therapy Technician position at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust seeks a therapy support worker to join the Occupational Therapy team within the Children's and Family Health Devon integrated community services. Based in the South locality, the role involves collaborating with Occupational Therapists to assess, implement, and evaluate interventions for children and young people facing various physical, sensory, communication, and cognitive challenges. Responsibilities include running clinics and groups, managing specialist equipment, supporting trainees, and promoting participation among service users, all within diverse settings such as schools, nurseries, and homes.
Candidates should have relevant experience and strong communication skills to effectively engage with children and families, particularly those with communication difficulties. The role demands the ability to document treatment progress, manage a delegated caseload, maintain confidentiality, and adhere to evidence-based practices. Technicians will also contribute to team performance by fostering collaboration, completing mandatory training, and reflecting on their practices to ensure high-quality care delivery.
Candidates should have relevant experience and strong communication skills to effectively engage with children and families, particularly those with communication difficulties. The role demands the ability to document treatment progress, manage a delegated caseload, maintain confidentiality, and adhere to evidence-based practices. Technicians will also contribute to team performance by fostering collaboration, completing mandatory training, and reflecting on their practices to ensure high-quality care delivery.
We are looking for a therapy support worker to join our Occupational therapy team in Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD). We are an integrated children's community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals with some relevant experience to join us.
The post holder will be based within the South locality in the John Parkes Unit, and be part of the Torbay and South OT Team. We are a community service and as well as working from our clinic base, we work in schools, nurseries, and families homes across the South Devon area. You will work alongside the Occupational therapists to assess, implement and evaluate OT interventions to create the best outcomes for children. The role will also include supporting the team to run parent or child groups, clinics and manage specialist equipment reviews.
- To follow up assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of delegated caseload and escalating changes to the registered therapist for children and young people with physical and sensory, communication and interaction and cognition and learning needs in a variety of settings
- To undertake clinical interventions utilising a variety of modes, including planning and leading group and individual therapy.
- To participate in ordering and issue of appropriate equipment as part of packages of prescribed care after achieving appropriate competencies
- Using strengths-based approach; ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidenced-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and Routine Outcome Measures
- To support in the supervision of Trainees
- To promote and support participation of service users across the service
- Produce materials and make equipment as required
- Assist in the delivery of training
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- To be a good communicator in order to work with children/young people and families who have a range of communication difficulties, using appropriate communication methods
- To have responsibility for reporting back on progress to the supervising therapist
- To collect case related information and data from clients, carers, referrers and other relevant sources and report this to the registered therapist
- To provide and receive routine information where there are barriers to understanding face to face, over the telephone and electronically maintaining confidentiality at all times
- To provide non-clinical information and advice directly to parents / carers and others
- Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by communicating well with all members of the team, understanding the role in the service and how to help the team service achieves its objectives
- Reflect on their own practice regularly
- To assess responses to treatment programmes and decide appropriate action e.g. discuss with the registered practitioner
- To be responsible for keeping contemporary and accurate session notes, ensuring recording of treatment aims and outcomes
- To frequently arrange meetings and inform patients of appointments and cancellations at the request of the registered therapist
- To use personal initiative to manage and prioritise own workload
- To recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and seek advice and support to resolve as appropriate
- To monitor stock levels, escalating through the appropriate channels as required
- Maintaining compliance with mandatory training requirements
- To implement specialised treatment programmes as prescribed by the registered therapist
- To provide skilled, evidence-based care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures and extent of agreed competencies
- To use routine outcome measures and a goal-based approach, collaboratively with children/young people and their families, in ways that inform treatment and clinical care
- To escalate concerns and clinical outcomes of care to registered therapists
- To adapt practice to meet individual patient/client circumstances
- Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our service
- and scope of extended competencies
- To access clinical supervision in line with the organisations policy
- To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and development needs
- To identify and manage risks through incident reporting when appropriate
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