Specialist Occupational Therapist - Housing

To provide an integrated Occupational Therapy service to children and young people and their families, with a focus on major housing adaptation. This will involve expertise in the assessment of housing needs and provision including adaptations and equipment needs for children and young people and their families with close, effective working relationships with the community occupational therapists and with colleagues in social care.

You will be responsible for your own caseload and in a supervisory capacity for that of junior staff working within your team. To provide specialised children's occupational therapy assessment and treatment for children in the domain of housing adaptations, safety within the home and equipment needs related to a major housing adaptation. To assess and prescribe specialist equipment for home to support function and participation (e.g.

positioning, beds, toilet and bathing, hoists and slings, safety) and link with the community Occupational Therapists within the service to ensure a fully integrated service. To appropriately delegate work/tasks to therapy assistants, maintaining oversight of their input with children and young people., If you receive a suspicious job offer or recruitment-related communication, do not make any payments, share personal information, or provide identity documents.

We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible., Nature of work To provide specialised childrens occupational therapy assessment and treatment for children in the domain of housing adaptations, safety within the home and equipment needs related to a major housing adaptation.

To assess and prescribe specialist equipment for home to support function and participation (e.g. positioning, beds, toilet and bathing, hoists and slings, safety) and link with the community Occupational Therapists within the service to ensure a fully integrated service. To appropriately delegate work/tasks to therapy assistants, maintaining oversight of their input with children and young people.

To participate in training/lecturing programmes, with support from senior colleagues, for Occupational Therapists staff, Occupational Therapy students and external agencies, as required. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the children and young peoples Occupational Therapy service. To complete assessments with support from senior occupational therapist to inform the SEN tribunal process The nature of childrens practice will require the post holder to bend, stretch, lift childrens limbs, crawl, kneel, work in confined spaces and at times work from the floor employing light physical effort on a day-to-day basis.

Planning To plan their own diary and prioritise their caseload in line with the service offer. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the children and young peoples Occupational Therapy service. To work as an autonomous practitioner supported by regular clinical and management supervision. To comply with departmental and organisational policies and procedures. Specific projects To participate in defined, delegated projects.

To liaise with Team Leaders to ensure that all children referred into the occupational therapy Housing Team receive an equitable service. Communication To provide excellent communication with Children and Young People, Parents, carers, schools, local education authority, social services, acute hospitals, paediatricians, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, pre-school teachers, psychologists (clinical and educational) and child and family nurses.

Often information handled will be sensitive and highly complex. Occasionally children are seen with extremely sensitive rare and complex medical conditions this requires communication at a high level with specialist doctors and nati