Occupational Therapist Band 6

Job overview

Coventry and Warwickshire Children's Intensive Support Team

Occupational Therapist

Band 6

30 hours

Permanent

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Children's Intensive Support Team. We are seeking an innovative and enthusiastic OT with working knowledge of people with autism and learning disabilities, including challenging behaviour and sensory processing issues. The service uses the Model of Human Occupation as a clinical model and an understanding of the model and standardised assessments used would be an advantage. The post holder will hold a complex caseload and be expected to work flexibly.

Come and join our friendly multidisciplinary team and build on your clinical skills and knowledge in the learning disabilities field. The post holder will be supported by an experienced band 7 OT. Both continuing professional development and life long learning is integral within the service.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to children with autism. To work with families, schools, social care and other relevant professionals.

To work in collaboration with community and inpatient mental health services to prevent admission to tier 4 inpatient services.

To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision.

To deliver tailored occupational therapy assessments such as; functional and sensory assessments.

To provide expert advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, clients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide specialist therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment programmes to individual clients with complex needs referred to the multidisciplinary service.

To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision

To support less experienced staff and students and colleagues deliver the Trust contracted services

To provide expert advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, clients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts