Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for a clinical caseload, monitoring own, and others workload/ treatment methods, in order to maintain high professional standards, advising Professional Lead Occupational Therapist of related issues.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work, including the management of children on the caseload
• To support the Professional Lead to clearly differentiate between the core and traded service offers and contribute to working through any issues and process matters that need to be addressed
• To assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting the information gathered to provide a diagnosis or contribute to the diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan.
• To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications
• Develop intervention packages to be delivered as group therapy and/or one to one sessions in line with core and traded models of care.
• To work closely with the Clinical Lead to develop packages of intervention and to produce materials as appropriate to support these packages.
• To carry out nursery/school and/or home visits as appropriate teaching others to carry out activities as appropriate to support treatment goals.
• To provide specialist OT advice and suggestions to other professionals involved e.g. education staff, doctors, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists, etc.
• To assess, provide and monitor the use of aids and appliances, liaising with Occupational Therapists from the Disabled Children’s Social Care team and teach the parents/carers and education staff about health and safety issues surrounding the equipment.
• To supervise OT students on practice placement.
• To communicate effectively and sensitively with children and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of the condition and its implications, at times where English may not be the first language. This will involve the use of a range of communication skills including persuasion, motivation, explanation and an understanding of alternative communication systems that may be used by the child, including sign language, gestures and other non-verbal methods.
• To communicate user-related information effectively to the multi-disciplinary team, including colleagues in Education, Social Care and Health and acute services to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated service.
• To use highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills when working with professionals, children and young people within an education environment, showing sound understanding of the drivers and outcomes required with the education system 
• To contribute to the development of new service delivery model in order to facilitate the effective use of resources and meet the current demands and changes.
• To work closely with the Professional Lead to develop relationships with schools and other settings and to promote and develop new areas of the business
• To support the development of traded services in the OT department, including the promotion of new areas of business and actively seeking new business opportunities
• To be involved in different service development and clinical governance activities e.g. may lead clinical audit, undertake research etc. specific to setting
• To work in accordance with the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct 2021.
• The post holder will be required to competently use the email and IT systems for correspondence, and maintain office systems such as spread sheets and data bases.
• To complete timely accurate written and electronic records of patient’s care, maintaining service standards and following departmental clinical record keeping guidelines. The post holder will also be required to input activity into the IT systems.
• To deal with incoming and outgoing correspondence, telephone calls and enquiries in an appropriate manner.
• To attend and contribute to Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Inclusion Services Staff Meetings, and in-service Training Sessions.
• To be able to use Trust IT systems to ensure up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards and provide specialist occupational therapy records relevant to education  and community setting.
• Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.
• Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place and carry out personal development reviews for direct reports. Ensure all staff in your team/s have annual PDR’s resulting in specific objectives and effective personal development plans in line with the Knowledge and Skills Outline Framework.