Specialist occupational therapist needed to provide term time only occupational therapy intervention specialist nursery and mainstream school. The client offers a full-time contract with an opportunity to work from home, a fair and manageable caseload and further training in your portfolio. The vacancy will be for an initial 3 - 6 months with potential for extension.
Main Duties for the Children's Occupational Therapist includes.
To provide a Specialist Occupational Therapy Service for children/young people who have disabilities, complex health needs or chronic illness, social and housing needs.
Experience of clinical assessment and intervention as an Occupational Therapist.
Passionate about and/or have experience in working as an OT in paediatrics.
Working knowledge of child development, neuro-development and childhood occupations.
Able to prepare clearly written reports for use by multiple agencies.
Knowledge, training and experience of a using range of therapeutic techniques and approaches, including non-standardised and standardised assessments.
Knowledge/experience of physical and developmental disabilities and their impact on occupational performance.
Experience and participate in clinical audits/research.
Able to communicate sensitive, condition related information to clients using empathy and reassurance and able to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
Able to provide and implement OT programmes within a specialist field and work collab...