# Paediatric Occupational Therapist - Berkshire

**Company**: Kirsop-Taylor Healthcare Ltd
**Location**: Berkshire
**Salary**: £70.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join our team in Berkshire. As a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, you will deliver highly specialist occupational therapy as part of a multidisciplinary team, helping a young person with autism to develop greater independence, improve emotional regulation and maximise engagement in education and everyday life.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver weekly direct occupational therapy sessions as well as ad-hoc indirect support across the academic year

- Set meaningful therapy goals using a sensory integration approach informed by metacognitive, interoception-informed, regulation literacy and client-centred practice

- Support the young person to develop sensory awareness, emotional regulation, self-care, independence and fine motor skills

- Coach and support school staff and other key adults to embed therapeutic strategies into daily routines

- Monitor progress and adapt programmes to ensure interventions remain effective

- Liaise with parents, education staff and other professionals

- Maintain accurate clinical records, attend multidisciplinary meetings and produce an annual review report where required

**Requirements**

- HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist

- Experience working with children and young people with autism and additional needs

- Knowledge of sensory integration principles and neuro-affirming practice

- Experience supporting emotional regulation, sensory processing and functional independence

- Excellent communication, report writing and multidisciplinary working skills

- The ability to coach and empower families, education staff and other professionals

- Experience supporting young people within educational settings would be highly desirable

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## Skills

### Required
- sensory integration
- metacognitive practice
- interoception-informed practice
- regulation literacy
- client-centred practice
- emotional regulation
- sensory processing
- functional independence
- multidisciplinary working

### Nice to have
- experience supporting young people within educational settings

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