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Are you looking to work within a dynamic progressive Paediatric therapy team?

Do you have paediatric experience, or relevant transferable skills and are looking to specialise in paediatrics? If so, we would love to hear from you!

2x full time Band 6 vacancies has arisen in the Community Paediatric Therapy Team in Salford. The hours can be worked flexibly across Monday to Friday, this is to meet both candidate and service needs.  Part time working will also be considered.  

The team works across a variety of locations and paediatric specialities, including neurological, developmental and neurodiverse caseloads. Further information can be found here.

The Band 6 posts will work within a specific area, with the opportunity to experience other areas, depending on individuals interests, learning needs and service priorities.

What we will offer:

• Band 7 leadership across all teams, for formal and informal support
• Opportunities for learning and development:
• Robust induction
• Competency framework
• In Service training
• Peer support groups
• Support Career Aspirations
• Regular 1:1 supervision
• Appraisal
• Comprehensive Wellbeing offer
• Supportive and friendly team

If you are wanting to work in a team that receives feedback from families that we have "changed their lives" then this is the team for you. 

Main duties of the job

Our teams ethos is to maximise children’s function, independence and participation. How you will do this:

• Work closely with OT’s, physio’s and assistants in your specific team
• Provide training, support and resources to empower families and professionals to have the knowledge and skills to enable the functional development of children & young people
• Assessment of functional Abilities
• Provision of advice and signposting
• Involve the child or young person in setting their own goals, whatever their abilities
• Assessment and provision of equipment for home and school to maximise independence, participation & support their care
• Working closely with Physios, where appropriate, to jointly manage children on your shared caseload, including postural management
• Provide a range of treatment dependent on need
• See children at home, school, nursery and clinic
• Participate in individual and joint clinics
• Develop links with other health, education and social care professionals, along with building rapport with the children and families
• Advise schools and nurseries on adaptations to maximise inclusion
• Work closely with Community OT to support home adaptations
• Engage in EHCP process
• Support development of junior staff and students
• Participate in audit, service development & clinical governance

If you have a particular interest in developing skills in an area, this can be supported within the team.

If you would  like to know more about working in the team and meet some of the fabulous team members currently working in the team, then we are hosting a meet the team event on MS Teams on Tuesday 25th June 7-8pm. Please email [email protected] to request the teams link.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three

core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website: https://www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk