A Paedatriatric Occupational therapist is required is required to provide Occupational Therapy for children and young people with significant disability and complex health needs aged 0 to 18 years. The team provides a service to Early Years children, mainstream schools and special schools to support children and young people who have significant functional difficulties in the areas of self-care skills, school occupations e.g. use of tools and equipment, mobility and posture, due to a complex, severe or enduring physical and or developmental condition which significantly affects ability to achieve potential in terms of activities of daily living.
As a Band 6 paediatric Occupational Therapist you will work in a range of settings:
* as an autonomous practitioner, providing high quality paediatric occupational therapy to support children and young people with disabilities to achieve their potential.
* You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to support children and young people’s occupational therapy needs and provide specialist advice to other disciplines.
* You will carry a specialist caseload of children and young people with a variety of complex physical, learning and social needs and be responsible for writing reports for EHCP and MDT assessments/reviews.
* As part of the role you will contribute to the supervision of students on clinical placement and support workers who are working with children and yo...