Occupational Therapist
Permanent - Lambeth
£44806 - £54320
52 Weeks / 35 Hours
(Term Time Only & Reduced Hours considered, salary is reduced pro-rata to reflect this)
Randstad Education is working with a client school in Lambeth who is looking to appoint to the following position:
This is a LEAD POSITION - A Health Professionals License to Practice is essential to your application
As an Occupational Therapist, you will be able to help our client transform the lives of autistic children and young people by coordinating and providing a highly specialist clinical service to students across the school. Working as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will be responsible for the assessment, treatment, implementation and documentation of Occupational Therapy interventions in the school.
The main responsibilities are:
- To adopt a neuro-diversity affirming approach to clinical practice.
- Use professional autonomy and be informed by Educational Health Care Plan's EHCP's to assess, develop and implement highly specialist Occupational Therapy intervention across the school.
- Work within a multidisciplinary approach across the school.
- Provide advice within the context of the student's therapeutic formulation regarding the management of students with sensory, motor difficulties and behavioural needs.
- Act as a source of expertise in providing Occupational Therapy specialist assessment, recommendations and intervention using complex and advanced clinical reasoning, demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis.
- Using sound clinical reasoning skills, to analyse and interpret assessment findings from both standardised and non-standardised assessments in order to help establish appropriate intervention goals and integrate these appropriately into Occupational Therapy assessment, therapy plans and EHCP's.
- Commit to and implement evidence-based practice and to use research/audit opportunities to support the efficacy of therapeutic interventions and ensure all practice are both current and of high quality.
- To use advanced clinical reasoning to review own caseload to ensure intervention is meeting the needs of the pupils.
- Assessment, reporting, contributing to and attending LEA Annual Reviews of children holding EHCP's, as required.
- Have a good working knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and application to ensure best practice.
- Attending parent evenings, in conjunction with teachers and other members of multidisciplinary team.
- Participating in the planning, organising and delivering of training internally as required.
- Participate and deliver external courses/presentations where required and as appropriate to knowledge base.
- To lead clinical case discussion at trans-disciplinary staff meetings and become an active member of the wider School therapy team.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Health Professions Council License to practice.
- Minimum 2 Years experience including in-depth experience in Autism/School based interventions.
- Registered member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
- Clinical practice is embedded in a neurodiversity paradigm.
- Evidence of responsibility for staff and caseload management
- Sound knowledge and understanding of interventions relevant to Autistic students.
- Sound knowledge of service delivery models and clinical governance.
To Apply you must :
- Be eligible to work in the UK is ESSENTIAL (sponsorship is not available with this role)
- Have a DBS on a update service
- Be able to provide 2 recent relevant references
If this is the job for you, then APPLY NOW and don't wait! I am looking forward to hearing from you.
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