Occupational Therapist

Band 6 Children’s Speech and language Therapist, the role will be to provide a Speech and Language Therapy service to children with speech, language and communication difficulties The post holder will be responsible for the daily organisation of sessions and caseload in consultation with line manager.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Able to make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment with access to second opinions from highly specialist clinical staff
• Able to construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate therapy from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment, theoretical knowledge and clinical benchmarking.
• Demonstrates empathy with clients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities
• Able to communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to clients, carers families and multidisciplinary team members / other professionals, in written and verbal form
• Able to identify areas for own personal/ professional development evidenced by person development plan/professional portfolio developed within an appraisal/ supervision/ reflective learning framework Able to organise, plan and prioritise own workload
• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills Negotiates with carers/clients/others around individual case management. Can recognise breakdown/ conflict when occurs and seeks advice and support to resolve Ability to comment on development of service policy and procedure within discussion Able to manage the emotional consequences of working with clients with a range of distressing and life limiting conditions.

The service is looking for Full time and Part time, you will be working over several sites across South and North Essex.