Multidisciplinary Technician Band 4 School - FTC

Multidisciplinary Technician Band 4 School - 12m FTC Starting April 26

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Multidisciplinary Technician to join our Therapy Team in the School. This role will require the successful candidate to provide high quality evidence-based, MDT technician support, in order to promote the participation and functional activity of children and young people.

You will provide support to the therapy teams providing services to children, young people and their families accessing The Childrens Trust School and residential services. This will include the delivery of child and family focused, goal-led assessments and interventions, in collaboration with multidisciplinary health, therapy and education teams.

Our service delivery aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe care, function and participation of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life. As such, you will also support the provision of specialist equipment, hydrotherapy and leisure swims, therapy resources, assistive technology for the classroom and House, and provide integrated in class working.

Staff benefits include London weighting, free shuttle bus, and more Read more below

Role Requirements

• Provide high quality, evidence-based interventions for children and young people attending The Childrens Trust School in partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team and education services, under the guidance of qualified therapists.
• Deliver suitable, individualised, 24hr therapy programmes/strategies, which fit within the child’s daily routine, whether to be carried out by parents or members of the multidisciplinary team; work in collaboration with parents, carers, and therapists to support therapy goal setting, which will facilitate participation of the child in their life skills.
• Support the therapists, multidisciplinary and education teams with measuring short term targets, through using the IMpacts curriculum and therapy outcome measurement tools e.g., Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS).
• Keep appropriate and accurate intervention records, fulfilling legal, professional and all other requirements of The Childrens Trust.
• Support the delivery of a tiered model approach to therapy at The Childrens Trust School, providing regular integrated time to classes and Houses.
• Work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, the child, and their family, to provide a fully integrated approach to the overall management of the child. This will include any home/school visits, professional child related meetings and appointments, as required.
• Support the child throughout their daily routines to maximise independence and participation including after school clubs and trips.
• Provide clinical cover across the service during episodes of staff shortage/heavy workload, to ensure effective service delivery.
• Be an autonomous technician, with responsibility for assisting with assessment, treatment, and planning, for an allocated case load of children/young people, as directed through supervision.
• Manage a small case load of children and young people, under the guidance of a qualified therapist.
• Support the collation of children’s reports/ plans for children/young people, within the multidisciplinary team framework.
• Monitor equipment and stock for therapy departments and identify resources for order.
• Complete equipment orders for therapy teams and contribute to future equipment needs for service budgets.
• Complete LOLER inspections for slings, as and when required.
• Support children/young people with leisure swims and therapists delivering aquatic therapy in the therapy pool.
• Support the oversight of specialist equipment for the department.
• Work with the class team and provide integrated time within the classroom as required.
• Demonstrate and model safe moving and handling practice in class and House.
• Support the delivery of assistive technology interventions.
• Work flexibly across the site, as needed e.g., with the team in the New Cheyne Centre and Children & Family Services.
• Actively participate in meetings.
• Take minutes of meetings, if and when required.
• Support and assist in the planning and…