Occupational Therapist
Core
Assess, plan, and implement high-level paediatric occupational therapy supports and parent education for clients, families, and community partners.
Role type
Senior IC paediatric occupational therapist (with potential to manage OT department)
Builds
Personalised intervention plans, home programs, and parent education resources
Domain
Healthcare / Paediatrics / Occupational Therapy
Required skills
Clinical reasoning, goal setting, report writing, multidisciplinary collaboration, parent education, clinical assessments, intervention planning, schedule management, KPI tracking
Preferred skills
Strategic thinking, initiative, self-motivation, problem solving, assertive communication, project development
Technologies
Standardised and non-standardised clinical assessment tools
Responsibilities
Assess, goal setting, planning, report writing and implementing personalised and successful intervention plans for clients; Develop goals and plans in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team; Manage weekly schedule to ensure achieving all set KPI's; Proposing, developing and contributing to both OT and mulit-disciplinary focused projects within the company; Develop plans for therapy assistants to implement and comprehensive home programs for clients; Complete individualised and/or group parent education; Contribute OT expertise to a multidisciplinary team; Providing in-services to the team and approved community partners about relevant topics; Administering a range of clinical assessments of a standardised and non-standardised nature; Positively promoting OT and OT services at Spring Forward Family Centre; Actively engage in weekly OT supervision and professional development