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Senior Occupational Therapist

Negotiable Allied Health Professionals Limerick

Job Title: Senior Occupational Therapist- Child Disability Services
Location: Limerick city
Hours: 35 hours per week
Position: Full time, Permanent position
Contract: 1 year purpose contract with possibility of extension

Excel Healthcare is currently seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist to join a Child Disability Network Team located in Limerick city.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to further your career while making a positive impact on the lives of children with disabilities.

Successful candidate:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will provide comprehensive Occupational Therapy services to children and families in Limerick city.

This Multidisciplinary team includes Senior Occupational Therapists, Staff grade Occupational Therapists, Social workers, Psychologists, Senior & Staff Grade Speech and Language Therapist, and Senior Physiotherapists.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Organise individual and group caseloads, including assessments, interventions, and diagnosis for children (0-18 years) with disabilities such as physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, developmental delays, and autism.
  • Foresee potential challenges or competing priorities and take appropriate action to maintain service standards.
  • Foster a sense of accountability for budgets within the team, ensuring value for money.
  • Monitor, record, and report performance outcomes and service delivery statistics to meet targets.
  • Show innovation in managing resources to sustain and enhance service quality.
  • Provide line management and clinical supervision to basic grade occupational therapists, volunteers, and students as required.
  • Demonstrate sufficient clinical skills in occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and diagnostics to meet the specific needs of children with disabilities.
  • Offer occupational therapy services including assessment, intervention, clinical supervision, and ongoing care to children in the early intervention service.

Essential:

  • Be registered, or eligible for registration, as an Occupational Therapist with CORU.
  • Have at least 3 years of full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-qualification clinical experience
  • Hold full CORU Registration.
  • Experience working with children with disabilities, including physical, sensory, intellectual, and autism spectrum disorder.
  • Relevant postgraduate training related to child disability services.
  • Specific experience in assessing and supporting children with autism and other disabilities.
  • Experience in working with children with life-limiting conditions.
  • Previous experience in a Senior Occupational Therapy role.
  • Familiarity with assessments under the AON process.

What you need to do now:

For more information about this opportunity, please reach out confidentially to Charlene Cooke by email or telephone 089- 9455139

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