Paediatric Therapy Assistant

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric Therapy Assistant to join our Children's Therapies team in East Kent (Primarily Canterbury and Thanet) The post  for 30 hours per week.

The successful post holder will support children and young people with complex needs following an integrated model of therapy delivery to meet the child's speech and language, physiotherapy and occupational therapy needs.

The post is based at both Greenbanks in Margate and the Children’s Assessment Centre in Canterbury. The post holders will be required to work across venues in East Kent including special schools, so a driver's license is essential.

Main duties of the job

Therapy Assistants are involved in supporting therapists with sessions and also working autonomously in delivering one to one and group therapy sessions, delivering parent workshops / training.

The sessions will incorporate interventions overseen by  the therapist  to support the outcomes for the child and young person and will include a range of  approaches related to the identified area of need and could include interventions for one or all of the disciplines.

The role will include administrative duties in conjunction with the therapeutic support provided  such as resource making; link visits to settings;  follow up contact with service users, clinical record keeping etc.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship.  Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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