Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our vibrant and innovative community children’s Occupational Therapy and service.

You will be based in the Fenland area and your role will predominantly involve working within special school, clinic, home and mainstream school/nursery settings supporting the Occupational Therapy team.

As well as working within the special schools, you will also be visiting mainstream schools and local pre school settings and working within a clinic setting supporting Occupational Therapy.  Children seen will have a range of disabilities and developmental delays.

Your role is instrumental in supporting our therapists in the delivery of care to the children and families accessing the services which will include administration tasks.  You will also carry out clinical interventions under the direction of the therapists.

There is a strong commitment from Cambridgeshire Community Services for continued professional development for all members of staff.

The successful candidate will be put forward for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure of Barring Service as the post involves working with children.

Interviews will take place on the 5th and 6th of June 2025 at: The Oak Tree Centre, 1 Oak Drive, Huntingdon, PE29 7HN

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after the 13mth May 2025.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible to work flexibly to assist the Occupational Therapists in their clinical and administrative work, including data entry.

The post holder will carry out clinical interventions under the direction of the therapists in special school, clinic, home and mainstream school/nursery settings.

The client group is children and young people (0-19 years) with disabilities and developmental delays.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To carry out clinical interventions with children and young people under the direction of the Occupational Therapists..  This includes children/young people of pre-school and school age, including those attending local special schools.

To support therapists in clinic settings to carry out standardised assessments and record findings.

To support therapists in the provision, correct prescription and monitoring of specialist equipment for children/young people.

The post holder may be required to visit children/young people at home, under the direction of the therapist.

To monitor the children/young people’s progress and recognise when to discuss any changes with the therapist (apart from discussions already scheduled).

To make observations about children/young people’s abilities and responses to activities and to feed these back to the therapist in order to assist in assessment and therapy.

To assist the therapist’s in the organisation and delivery of training to other professionals and parents as appropriate.

To liaise with Equipment Company Representatives to set up assessments and obtain quotes for equipment for children and young people.

To work flexibly to support the diverse work of the Occupational Therapy Teams in supporting the care of children and young people, prioritising the work which is asked of them.