Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated therapy assistant to join our Integrated Therapy team in Barnet Special Schools .

You will work both independently and alongside SLT, OT and Physiotherapists, other assistants, education staff and families to deliver therapy, training and advice for children and young people with a range of needs in Barnet Special Schools.

You will benefit from being part of a supportive, experienced group of staff providing a clinically effective service to children and young people and their families in Barnet.

Main duties of the job

Your key responsibilities will include:

Working within the Complex Needs Pathway

Supporting children’s integrated therapists in the role of early identification and prevention for children with therapeutic needs through observation, providing information, directing to services

Delivering therapy programmes to individuals or groups in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Centres reporting back progress and informing the Integrated therapy team.

Working as part of a multi-professional team in partnership with families.

Jointly setting and reviewing targets.

Monitoring and recording progression and measuring outcomes.

Delivering planned training with parents and professionals online, and in Clinics, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Centres.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people