Senior Occupational Therapist
@Mind Professionals posted 3 weeks ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 40653
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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
Senior Occupational Therapist
Location: Thatcham, Berkshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk, 52 wks/yr) – Part-time starting from 14 hrs/wk considered
Specialty: Special Educational Needs
Salary: £36,000 – £53,000 p/a pro-rata (dependant on qualifications and experience)
Mind Professionals are recruiting for a permanent Senior Occupational Therapist role based at a Special Educational Needs school in Thatcham, Berkshire.
The post holder will be line managing the team of Occupational Therapists, alongside managing a caseload of autistic young people with complex needs, including assessment, implementation and review of therapy input to ensure progress.
Key Responsibilities:
– To line manage the team of Occupational Therapists
– Manage a caseload of autistic young people (YP) with complex needs, including assessment, implementation and review of therapy input to ensure progress.
– To oversee support of apprenticeship training and management of OT/therapy assistants
– Use clinical reasoning skills to analyse and interpret findings from both standardised and non-standardised assessments to identify a young person’s occupational strengths and needs.
– Use of the therapy wave model (Specialist, Targeted, Universal) to manage and review caseload to ensure therapy input is meeting the young person’s needs.
– Provide specialist intervention using evidence-based therapy approaches individualised to meet YP’s needs in the areas of (not an exhaustive list) emotional regulation, sensory processing, and/or fine/gross motor skills.
– Contribution to the annual review process by providing high quality written reports, assessment, review of EHCP targets and attending annual review meetings (as appropriate).
– Contribute and/or lead in the planning and delivering of training to develop the knowledge and skills of others in the areas of autism and occupational therapy.
– Ensure adherence to HCPC standards (for conduct, performance, ethics,