Paediatric Therapy Assistant (OT/PT): Sponsorship Available

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to build skills and confidence working with children’s Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in a small and supportive team. As a Therapy Assistant (OT/PT), you will work as part of a supportive Children’s Therapy Team, delivering intervention and screening programmes under the guidance of senior registered colleagues. You will independently manage an allocated caseload.

You will contribute to care planning, service delivery and collaborative working across community

Work under the guidance and supervision of registered clinicians to manage your own caseload within a defined area of the service with support and supervision

Undertake a holistic functional assessment with clients, including defining individual goals, assessing transfers, mobility and functional activity

Plan, initiate, modify and complete a range of therapy programmes, evaluating outcomes achieved and discharging clients when appropriate.

Complete specific allocated tasks such as the delivery and fitting of equipment

Deliver training and advice to settings, practitioners / carers.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Work within a competency based framework to manage an allocated caseload of clients. Work independently or jointly with qualified therapists (dependent on competencies gained and level of complexity), to fully assess client needs including physical, functional, social and cognitive aspects. Plan, review and modify treatment directly in line with client goals and outcomes achieved per intervention.
• Take responsibility for managing own caseload within required timescales, proactively accessing regular supervision and support to do so. Plan, facilitate and complete discharge including provision of information to relevant professionals.
• Complete telephone screening to enable flow of patients through pathways.
• Deliver parent based groups (in person or virtually).
• Document interventions within Trust standards on SystmOne. Work closely with other members of the MDT in order to provide holistic child centered care.
• To provide advice to other health, education and social care professionals in the clinical area of Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
• Audit response to treatment, develop and modify resources and ways of working in line with current research.
• Actively engage in training, supervision, reflection and annual reviews. Be proactive in accessing support when needed, managing risks as they occur and being responsible for ensuring appropriate level of activity against individual Job Plan.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Level 4/5 qualification
• Level 1 Functional skills English and Maths ( GCSE grade d or e)

Desirable

• qualification in studies relating to Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people (adults or children) with long term physical conditions.
• Experience of working in a team
• Experience of using a range of IT e.g. Microsoft/patient records

Desirable

• Experience working as a B3 OTPTA
• Experience or awareness of equipment
• Experience working with children in a variety of settings
• Experience of working with children with disability

Personal qualities

Essential

• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• self motivated and able to work independently
• Able to work in a team
• Good organisational and time management skills

Other

Essential

• oCurrent full UK driving/ access to a car or ability to travel across community to deliver in homes/settings
• oAbility to undertake manual handling activities

Closing Date: 22 November 2026