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.