# Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service (IANDS)
**Location**: Islington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to make a positive impact within The Inclusion Bases within the London Borough of Islington. This newly created post will support a caseload of Primary Aged Children with complex learning needs, the majority of whom have a diagnosis of Autism.

The post holder will deliver a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to children and young people with Education Health and Care Plans within the Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service who have autism, learning disabilities and/or other complex developmental needs affecting participation, learning and engagement. The role will adapt specialist occupational therapy approaches across a tiered service model.

**Main duties of the job**

- Manage a specialist caseload, providing assessment, intervention, review and coordinated multidisciplinary working to support children to achieve meaningful occupational outcomes across school, home and community environments.

- Work closely with children, families, educational staff and partner agencies, contributing to target setting, annual reviews, Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) processes, and the development of Individual Support Plans.

- Deliver Occupational Therapy provision stipulated within EHCPs.

- Work closely with education staff within the Inclusion Bases to support the implementation of Occupational Therapy strategies and interventions within daily classroom routines and activities.

- Coordinate Occupational Therapy provision across the two inclusion-base settings, working collaboratively with school leaders, school improvement partners and multidisciplinary colleagues to identify emerging needs, promote consistency of practice, monitor outcomes and evaluate the impact of the service.

**Benefits**

- Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year Per Annum (Per Rata) Including HCAS

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 7

- Permanent contract

- Part-time working pattern

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Autism
- Learning Disabilities
- Sensory Processing
- Child Development

### Nice to have
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- specialist section Children, Young People and Families
- CBT
- CAMHS

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