Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist (Education)

• To personally undertake a case load of referrals to include: • Visiting and assessing children and young people with OT Needs. • To appropriately identify service provision in line with child and young persons needs at specialist, targeted or universal level of support. • Delivery of specialist programmes on an individual and/or small group basis. • Advice and treatment for children and young people with functional difficulties and sensory processing needs. • Offering advice to parents and carers as well as teaching staff at a targeted or universal level. • Maintaining children/young peoples records to a high standard. • Screening and prioritising new referrals in order to determine the need and level of occupational therapy provision required in line with service criteria. • At the point of referral gathering relevant information regarding previous and current input from health and social care services. • Carrying out a range of non-standardised and standardised assessments and interpreting a range of factors relating to the child or young persons condition; focusing on access to education. • Providing reports to referrers and other agencies involved in the child/young persons care. • Contributing to professional advice regarding the statutory assessment and annual review process both in Sutton and in out-of-borough settings if necessary. • Plan, create and deliver a wide range of tailored interventions and/or therapy programmes where direct OT input is indicated and effectively hand over prescribed programmes through training and modelling with teaching staff, parents and carers. • To recommend, provide or advise on provision of equipment and take responsibility for demonstrating its usage and training clients/carers. • To undertake risk assessment in complex moving and handling situations where appropriate i.e. provision of equipment identified for the school environment. • To monitor and record child or young persons progress and effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice and to communicate these as required to key stakeholders. • To liaise and establish communication networks with the multidisciplinary team, external voluntary and statutory organisations as appropriate in planning for child or young persons treatment. • Promotion of effective inclusion of children and young people into all aspects of the school curriculum. • Maintain effective liaison with all partners e.g., parents, professionals in Education, Health, Social Care and other Services with particular regard to Safeguarding and best practice. • Promote robust transition arrangements for pupils with Occupational Therapy needs including: Collaboration with a range of partner agencies to create effective transition support for specific children and young people. • To be aware of changing trends in treatment and promote Evidence Based Practice; embedding this into own specialist area of work in order to provide the highest standard of care to service users. • To participate in clinical audit, service development activities and research programmes as required. To contribute to formulating policies for specialist area and proposals for general service changes. • As part of the therapies team to plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions for schools and educational providers. • To engage with continual professional development as identified through managerial and clinical supervision and appraisal, including attending training and courses as agreed. • Attending and contributing to Team meetings. • Identifying needs and seeking advice within the framework of specialist teams and wider agencies as appropriate • Liaison with parents and carers and schools to find collaborative strategies to overcome barriers to learning and attend multi-agency meetings as required. • Embedding legislative change and key developments relating to improved outcomes for children and young people with Occupational Therapy Needs. • To comply with the Cognus Limited mandatory training requirements. Job description Job responsibilities • To personally undertake a case load of referrals to include: • Visiting and assessing children and young people with OT Needs. • To appropriately identify service provision in line with child and young persons needs at specialist, targeted or universal level of support. • Delivery of specialist programmes on an individual and/or small group basis. • Advice and treatment for children and young people with functional difficulties and sensory processing needs. • Offering advice to parents and carers as well as teaching staff at a targeted or universal level. • Maintaining children/young peoples records to a high standard. • Screening and prioritising new referrals in order to determine the need and level of occupational therapy provision required in line with service criteria. • At the point of referral gathering relevant information regarding previous and current input from health and social care services. • Carrying out a range of non-standardised and standardised assessments and interpreting a range of factors relating to the child or young persons condition; focusing on access to education. • Providing reports to referrers and other agencies involved in the child/young persons care. • Contributing to professional advice regarding the statutory assessment and annual review process both in Sutton and in out-of-borough settings if necessary. • Plan, create and deliver a wide range of tailored interventions and/or therapy programmes where direct OT input is indicated and effectively hand over prescribed programmes through training and modelling with teaching staff, parents and carers. • To recommend, provide or advise on provision of equipment and take responsibility for demonstrating its usage and training clients/carers. • To undertake risk assessment in complex moving and handling situations where appropriate i.e. provision of equipment identified for the school environment. • To monitor and record child or young persons progress and effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice and to communicate these as required to key stakeholders. • To liaise and establish communication networks with the multidisciplinary team, external voluntary and statutory organisations as appropriate in planning for child or young persons treatment. • Promotion of effective inclusion of children and young people into all aspects of the school curriculum. • Maintain effective liaison with all partners e.g., parents, professionals in Education, Health, Social Care and other Services with particular regard to Safeguarding and best practice. • Promote robust transition arrangements for pupils with Occupational Therapy needs including: Collaboration with a range of partner agencies to create effective transition support for specific children and young people. • To be aware of changing trends in treatment and promote Evidence Based Practice; embedding this into own specialist area of work in order to provide the highest standard of care to service users. • To participate in clinical audit, service development activities and research programmes as required. To contribute to formulating policies for specialist area and proposals for general service changes. • As part of the therapies team to plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions for schools and educational providers. • To engage with continual professional development as identified through managerial and clinical supervision and appraisal, including attending training and courses as agreed. • Attending and contributing to Team meetings. • Identifying needs and seeking advice within the framework of specialist teams and wider agencies as appropriate • Liaison with parents and carers and schools to find collaborative strategies to overcome barriers to learning and attend multi-agency meetings as required. • Embedding legislative change and key developments relating to improved outcomes for children and young people with Occupational Therapy Needs. • To comply with the Cognus Limited mandatory training requirements.