Job overview

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for two dedicated Paediatric Sensory Integration Practitioners (Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Speech and Language Therapist) to work as part of the AHP team within the Family Care Division at Bolton Foundation NHS Trust .

We are looking for experienced, motivated therapists who work well in a team and with excellent communication skills to undertake this highly specialist role, setting up a new service within the Division.

The successful applicants will work as a key members of the Therapy Team and receive access to the Trust's Our Leaders programme, supervision, appraisal and peer support.

You will be working in community settings in the Sensory Integration Therapy Team providing training, advice and assessments for children and young people with sensory processing difficulties.

We welcome applications from experienced band 6 sensory integration practitioners looking to progress your career in a training capacity towards a band 7 role, or existing band 7s wanting to focus their clinical experience in this area and develop a new service.

We kindly request that previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• To triage the paediatric sensory integration referrals to ensure clients receive appropriate, timely intervention. 
• To be professionally and legally accountable for own complex caseload.  To organise, plan and evaluate interventions to meet client and service priorities and to adjust these in line with available and changing resources.
• To undertake highly specialist therapy assessments for clients within clinical area. To use a variety of assessment methods both standardised and non-standardised, and advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge for high quality clinical outcome. 
• To assess risks, make recommendations and document to ensure risks are reduced as far as possible within the client’s daily activities and associated environments. 
• To work with clients and /or carers to identify client-centred goals in order to formulate and recommend interventions whilst being sensitive to complex and distressing diagnosis/prognosis and the resulting impact this has on the individual.
• To monitor and evaluate interventions in order to measure progress and when necessary modify to allow for changes due to complexities and improvements with interventions.  Use outcome measures where appropriate.
•  To provide highly specialist advice and training to clients and/or carers with complex needs to promote health and well-being in terms of sensory, physical, psychosocial and/or functional skills i.e. all treatment modalities applicable to that clinical area.

Working for our organisation

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and are guided by our trust values.

We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity and children's services, with new central delivery suite, special care, neonatal intensive care and children's unit.  This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit staff who share the organisation's values and beliefs. 

Bolton Foundation Trust aims to ensure the wellbeing and development of all our staff team and are committed to the continuous improvement of staff engagement initiatives. 

Bolton itself is a culturally diverse university town within easy motorway access of Manchester and surrounding areas.