B5 Paediatric Occupational Therapist

We are seeking a newly or more recently qualified Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join our innovative, pro-active and growing Team at the Bridge School.

Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service (IANDS) provides a multi-agency team approach to working with babies, children and young people who present with complex disabilities. The service is currently split into teams including the Special Schools Team. The post holder will be based within the Special Schools Team, primarily based at The Bridge School. The Bridge is an outstanding school for children aged 4-19 who have significant learning needs, and the majority of children and young people have a diagnosis of Autism.

The post holder will be a newly qualified Occupational Therapist or an experienced Band 5 therapist looking to develop their clinical experience working in a special school’s service.

The post holder will work in the multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment including working with, specialist teachers, therapy assistants, psychologists, dieticians, paediatricians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other professionals.

The post holder will provide a clinical Occupational Therapy service for school-aged children who have special educational needs (SEN) related to neurodiversity, learning disability, physical disability, sensory processing needs and social and emotional behaviour difficulties.

They will be responsible for managing and prioritising a defined caseload, independently accessing planned supervision to support the process The post holder will have opportunities to develop both assessment and intervention skills and work with the teams across special schools in Islington to develop a wide range of skills as well as work towards meeting their NQP goals and competencies. They will have access to regular clinical supervision from a senior therapist and management support from the team lead.

With the support of more experienced colleagues, the postholder will provide a universal, targeted and specialist occupational therapy service which includes the advising, training and upskilling of parents, carers, and school staff to support children with complex needs. They will also provide direct interventions including assessment, liaison, and episodes of face-to-face therapy for individual/groups of children and young people as well as work within the MDT. The post holder will devise and provide individualised care plans that are evaluated through outcome measures.

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.

Our mission

Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.

Our vision

Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.

Our goals

We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.

• To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
• To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
• To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
• To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
• To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
• To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kirsty Hammond Job title: Team Lead, Bridge Schools Email address: [email protected]