A Band 6 or Band 7 paediatric occupational therapist joins the multidisciplinary team at Unlocking Language's Canary Wharf clinic, a specialist paediatric therapy service. The work centres on sensory assessment and sensory-based occupational therapy for children, mostly in the Early Years, with needs such as autism and complex developmental difficulties. The post works alongside speech and language therapists on joint sessions, and the Band 7 version carries a clinical leadership role in building sensory provision. HCPC registration and sensory experience decide fit.
What the job involves
- Carry out specialist sensory assessments and observations
- Identify individual sensory processing profiles and how they affect participation, regulation, learning, play and daily life
- Plan and deliver individualised sensory-based occupational therapy programmes
- Develop and implement sensory diets and sensory strategies where clinically appropriate
- Design and deliver sensory circuits, including alerting, organising and calming activities
- Support children who experience sensory dysregulation
- Provide strategies for sensory seeking, sensory avoidance and sensory sensitivities
- Support proprioceptive, vestibular, tactile and interoceptive development
- Work on body awareness, motor planning, coordination and postural control
- Advise parents, therapists and other professionals on environmental adaptations and regulation strategies
- Develop sensory programmes that can continue at home, nursery or school
- Work jointly with speech and language therapists, including joint sessions, goal setting and parent consultations
What’s required
Qualifications
- Recognised degree or postgraduate qualification in occupational therapy
Registration & licences
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Experience
- Relevant paediatric occupational therapy experience
- Experience with autistic children and/or children with complex developmental needs
- Experience planning and implementing sensory programmes and sensory circuits
- Confidence working with Early Years children
Skills & knowledge
- Strong knowledge and experience of sensory processing and regulation
- Ability to assess children's functional, motor and sensory needs
- Excellent communication with children, parents and professionals
Other
- Ability to work independently while contributing to a multidisciplinary team
- High standards of clinical documentation and professional practice
Nice to have
- Sensory Integration training or postgraduate Sensory Integration qualification
- Experience using standardised sensory assessments
- Advanced knowledge of sensory processing
- Experience developing or running sensory rooms
- Experience with complex needs, neurodevelopmental conditions, and DCD/dyspraxia
- Experience in specialist schools or Early Years settings
- Experience delivering parent or professional training
- Experience supervising junior occupational therapists or developing new clinical services
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
