Job overview
Are you an excellent communicator and want to make a tangible difference to the lives of children and young people?
Come and join our compassionate and caring team in Buckinghamshire's Children and Young People's (CYP) Therapy Service. As a Link Therapy Worker you will work as part of a small team under the direction of the Communications and Engagement Lead to provide support to education settings and family centres in Buckinghamshire to enable the CYP Integrated Therapies clinical teams to support children with therapy needs.
As part of new investment through recommissioning of the service, you will enable the service to reach a wide audience, with a focus on tackling health inequalities ensuring that all children can access the support they need.
Main duties of the job
The link therapy workers will coordinate delivery of a range of activities, including but not limited to:
Provide personalised support to education settings and family centres to coordinate therapy assessments, embed therapy interventions and promote wider workforce training to support children with SEND
Work closely with education settings and SEND advisors to support children's needs using the Graduated Approach
Foster empowerment in setting staff by being a consistent, familiar contact
Coordinate access to more specialist support when needed
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
1. 5 GCSEs / NVQ111 / BTech
2. Significant and relevant work experience E.g. in a school or early years setting
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Relevant practical work experience related to the clinical area
Desirable criteria
4. Excellent interpersonal skills
5. Able to demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleaugues
6. Able to communicate effectively
7. Demonstrates time management skills to balance workload
8. Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
9. Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
10. Able to identify strengths and needs and seek support when needed
11. Able to demonstrate relevent IT skills and use a range of applications to support workload
12. Demonstrates awareness of the roles of other professionals
13. Fully IT literate and able to use a range of applications to support workload
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
14. Able to travel between a range of clinical locations - Car Driver
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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