Band 6 Paediatric Occupational Therapist Education - Sherwood Hill

multidisciplinary team of Occupational Therapists and Speech Therapists

the post holder will have the opportunity to work in local schools and

colleges across the 4 years to 25 years age range or with a smaller age

range within this.

schools/settings with children and young people with Occupational Therapy

Needs (OT Needs) including a possible cohort with ASD, or PMLD to manage

their caseload to ensure that intended outcomes are delivered within

agreed service standards.

awareness of the needs of and strategies available for children and young

people with OT Needs.

and assessing children and young people with OT

Needs.

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To

appropriately identify service provision in line with child and young persons

needs at specialist, targeted or universal level of support.

on an individual and/or small group basis.

and young people with functional difficulties and sensory processing needs.

advice to parents and carers as well as teaching staff at a targeted or

universal level.

children/young peoples records to a high standard.

prioritising new referrals in order to determine the need and level of therapy

provision required in line with service criteria.

previous and current input from health and social care services.

and interpreting a range of factors relating to the child or young persons

condition; focusing on access to education.

child/young persons care and advice on appropriate differentiation of and

access to the curriculum.

interventions and/ or therapy programmes where direct SaLT input is indicated

and effectively hand over prescribed programmes through training and modelling

with teaching staff, parents and carers.

liaison with all partners e.g. parents/ carers, professionals in Education,

Health, Social Care and other Services with particular regard to Safeguarding

and best practice.

persons progress and effectiveness of intervention

through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice and to

communicate these with key stakeholders.

of partner agencies to create effective transition support for specific

children and young people.

inclusion of children and young people into all aspects of the school

curriculum.

To attend and contribute

to team meetings as required.

trends in treatment and promote Evidence Based Practice; embedding this into

own specialist area of work in order to provide the highest standard of care to

service users.

change and key developments relating to improved outcomes for children and

young people with SLCN.

audit, service development activities and research programmes as required.

To engage with continual

professional development as identified through managerial and clinical

supervision and appraisal, including attending training and courses as agreed.

Limited mandatory training requirements.

team to plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions for schools and

educational providers.

Cognus

Therapies is a thriving multidisciplinary team of Occupational Therapists,

Speech and Language Therapists, and Therapy Assistants who support children and

young people in schools, colleges, bases and specialist provisions within the

London Borough of Sutton and surrounding boroughs.

Sherwood

Foundation School is an all age foundation special school, which consists of

Three campuses

Sherwood Park Campus in Wallington, which provides for pupils

whose primary needs are profound and multiple learning disabilities and severe

learning disabilities.

Sherwood Hill Campus in Carshalton, which provides for pupils

where their diagnosis of Autism has a significant or profound impact on their

learning and/ or social and emotional skills, affecting their capacity to cope

across daily activities.

Sherwood Manor Campus in Wallington is for secondary aged students

and primarily for autistic learners as well as some with moderate learning

difficulties many of whom have additional differences and complexities.

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