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Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Fixed term: 7 months (Until the end of March 2026 with likelihood of extension)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3118
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Edware community
Town
Edgware
Salary
pro rata per annum including (outer) HCAS
Closing
17/06/2025 23:59

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Assistant Children’s Integrated Therapy Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 4

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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. 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.
  2. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
  3. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
  4. 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.
  5. To evaluate the quality of own work in own area and raise quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • • Minimum of 5 GCSE’s or equivalent
  • - Relevant practical work experience related to the job description and working with children.
  • • Demonstrates willingness to learn and develop via training and induction.
Desirable criteria
  • • NVQ level 3
  • Relevant prior experience in a Therapy

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Literate in IT / Computer Skills and able to use a range of applications to support workload.
  • Good oral communication skills based on fluency of the English language – spoken and written.
  • Able to communicate effectively particularly where difficulties in understanding exist.
  • Able to organise workload and manage time.
  • Demonstrates awareness of standards of record keeping.
  • Able to identify own strengths and needs.
  • Able to identify when to seek support.
  • Demonstrates the ability to reflect on practice with peers / clinical supervisor.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of SLT, OT and Physiotherapy work and child development.
  • Experience of working with children and / or young people and their parents/carers.
  • Working in education and/or working alongside colleagues in education.
  • Experience of working effectively in a team
  • Experience of delivering interventions to children following the advice of another professional.
  • Awareness of Trust values and evidence of putting them into practise

Other

Essential criteria
  • To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
  • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
  • Ability to take majority of leave in school holidays

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire Turner
Job title
Clinical Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

We look forward to receiving your application as the first step towards welcoming you to the Barnet Children’s Integrated Therapy Team.

Please note this vacancy will close when 40 applications have been received. Please ensure you apply early to avoid disappointment.

[email protected]

 02033168900

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