Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist to work in Swindon on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Occupational Therapist job is £35,392 per annum.
Main Duties:
- Use assessment skills to identify and prescribe equipment to meet the needs of the individual child or young person.
- Demonstrate Communication & Relationship Skills, Provide and receive complex, sensitive diagnostic & prognostic information to patients/ clients, carers & relatives : to be able to sensitively take a case history, recognise barriers to communication and capture Children and young people voice.
- Demonstrate Planning & Organisational Skills: Plans & prioritises own & section patient workload, training sessions; plans and organises specialist service.
- Provide a high quality and an effective paediatric occupational therapy interventions for children attending special or mainstream schools, at home, in school or in clinic settings.
- Develops & implements occupational therapy programmes within a specialist field e.g. trauma, rehabilitation, mental health.
- Proposes and implements policy in own area of practice.
- As a member of the paediatric therapy team, to work as part of the multidisciplinary team, to work as part of the team recognising the individual roles of the other team members and working in partnership with them.
- Allocates work to team members; supervises students/ provides training in specialist area
- Autonomous practitioner, works within codes of practice, guidelines/ may be lead specialist, may lead team, will be responsible for a caseload in the community.
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
- Professional qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Extensive and relevant clinical experience with children and young people with complex needs
- Proven experience in applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
- Demonstrated evidence of highly effective clinical reasoning skills
- In-depth knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
Contact:
This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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