Occupational Therapist – SEN School
@Mind Professionals posted 2 months ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 36459
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Band Flexible
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Profession Occupational Therapist
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Role type Permanent
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Profession Category Allied Healthcare
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Job Description
Permanent Occupational Therapist – Special Education Needs
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Specialty: Special Education Needs
Salary Range: 36,507 – 44,103 (includes paid school holidays) + excellent benefits
Mind Professionals are looking for an Occupational Therapist, with experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences, for a full-time Permanent role. The role is based at an independent specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours.
Key Responsibilities:
– Use advanced specialist knowledge and levels of experience appropriately and effectively across a range of work practices which is underpinned by comprehensive and extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
– Assess the motor, perceptual and sensory integration skills of the young people and to ascertain how any differences impact on their function and participation.
– Write reports based on your findings to support the young people, education and care staff and to inform annual reviews.
– Work with the young people to provide Occupational Therapy, as identified from assessment in line with the company Three Waves Model of Intervention, including environmental, whole school interventions as well as 1:1 work with individual children, group work and whole class work, as part of the MDT.
– To undertake high quality assessments of children and young people and make recommendations about appropriate therapeutic interventions for each child or young person, in accordance with individual assessed needs.
– To provide line management and clinical supervision to allocated Therapies Assistants within the setting and to support Newly Qualified Occupational Therapists within the setting
– To work closely with children, yo