Children's Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job overview

We are looking for someone with experience of working with children and young people in community settings to work within our team. The role will include both clinical and administrative duties.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our well-established and well-staffed team providing high quality services to children and young people age 0 to 18 within a variety of community settings including special and mainstream school, at home and at community sites as well as at the purpose built Hackney Ark.

These consist of organising, planning and helping to run intervention groups, carrying out one to one treatment sessions (under the guidance of an Occupational Therapist) to maximise children and young people' s independence and participation.  This includes setting up equipment within both homes and schools to enable children to access activities as safely and independently as possible.

The role will also involve assisting the service with the processing of new referrals, dealing with enquiries and managing the department resources and ordering system.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include:

• The post holder will independently manage and treat a caseload of children with guidance from a registered Occupational Therapist. This includes developing and implementing treatment programmes, independently writing summaries and records as required in discussion with a Registered Occupational Therapist.
• The post holder will use their initiative and clinical experience to adapt treatment programs where necessary to improve patient treatment, in response to changes in the child’s physical / sensory motor skill, environment, school requirements or parental expectations.
• The post holder will carry out assessments of children’s home environment and equipment needs with guidance from a registered occupational therapist. This will include writing recommendations and completing necessary paperwork to order non complex equipment and non complex adaptations.
• The post holder will set up and demonstrate the safe use of equipment to children and their families with guidance from a registered occupational therapist/ physiotherapist.
• The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and will have a good understanding of the OT role
• The post holder will carry out a range of administration duties including processing new referrals, booking parents / schools into workshops and training sessions and organising resources
• The post holder will also support the service in collating feedback from service users and from training sessions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.