# Children's Social Care Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
**Location**: Croydon
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an exciting 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment opportunity to work in an integrated Health and Social Care Children's Occupational Therapy Team as a Social Care Occupational Therapist.

You will be completing clinic and home-based assessments and interventions to support children, young people, and families with equipment, adaptations, housing, and home safety support across the borough of Croydon. You will work alongside a supportive and knowledgeable Social Care OT Team.

**Main duties of the job**

- Manage a clinical caseload of children with a wide range of physical and sensory disabilities, including children with complex needs, working across a number of settings.

- Work as part of the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams involved with children and their families. Contribute to care planning meetings, undertake joint assessments, goal settings, and reviews, where appropriate.

- Effectively communicate with staff, clients, families, and carers, dealing frequently with difficult and complex situations.

- Work as a lone practitioner in the community. Be responsible for identifying and accessing any advice/support required for case management.

- Demonstrate highly developed therapeutic handling skills for accurate and safe assessment, treatment, and moving and handling of clients.

- Teach and demonstrate specific Occupational Therapy techniques to parents and carers to enable them to develop the skills needed to carry out Occupational Therapy programmes with the child.

**Person Specification**

- Education and Qualification: OT Degree/Diploma, HCPC registration.

- Knowledge and Understanding: Demonstrate a clear understanding of OT skills in relation to children with disabilities, commitment to service development.

- Experience: Experience of equipment assessment, provision, and review, experience of completing medical housing assessment and associated paperwork, experience completing moving and handling assessments.

- Skills and Abilities: Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents, and staff, including children with significant communication difficulties, excellent report writing skills, including record keeping.

- Other Factors: Driving Licence - Valid in UK for manual car.

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Communication Skills
- Therapeutic Handling
- Record Keeping

### Nice to have
- Post-qualification paediatric training
- Postural management training
- Equipment and adaptations training

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