Permanent contract | 21 hours per week | £32,076 to £33,945 per annum pro rata (Grade H) | Norwich
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a part-time Occupational Therapist Assistant Practitioner (OTAP) based within the Adoption and Kinship Support Team at County Hall.
In this role, you will benefit from working within a large, multi-disciplinary team committed to improving outcomes for adopted and kinship children and their families.
The OTAP is supervised by the OT and accountable to the Adoption and Kinship Support Team Manager.
Supported by the OT, you will be expected to deliver a full range of OT interventions directly to children, young people, and their parent/carers, with overall case responsibility sitting with a qualified practitioner.
Your main functions will be:
* To work collaboratively with service users, their support network/family, and other agencies to enable them to achieve and maintain balance in their activities of daily living.
* With the support of the OT, to formulate and implement intervention plans aimed at reducing the impact of trauma and attachment disruptions.
* To promote function and social participation while reducing the impact of trauma and attachment disruptions.
* To provide consultation, advice, and develop support plans relating to activities of daily living, emotional regulation, and sensory processing.
* To offer consultations to the staff within the adoption and kinship support team and corporate parenting for specialist occupational support and advice.
* To provide a range of relevant workshops and groups to meet the needs of the service users and their families.
Your office base will be at County Hall in Norwich. We anticipate that working remotely will be a key feature of this role. Our technology platform and equipment are first-class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have good Broadband connectivity in place.
Occasionally, you will be expected to work out of hours to provide a flexible and responsive service that meets the needs of the families referred.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
* Competitive salary
* Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
* Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
* Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part-time, remote, and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
* Financial benefits such as:
o ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema, and days out.
o A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
o Relocation expenses (where applicable)
o An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
o Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments, and dependants’ pensions.
o A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard-to-fill job.
o Tax-efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes, and electric cars.
Already a Norfolk County Council employee? Please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.
Closing date: 23 January 2025
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