Job Introduction
As a registered Occupational Therapist, you will be joining our autism assessment services, where we are offering superb flexibility where you can work part time or full time, with hours and days to suit your lifestyle, working between Wiltshire, BANES and Swindon for face to face visits, mixed with remote working.
You will deliver quality autism assessments in primarily schools, clinics and through virtual media, using your knowledge and previous experience to support local children, young people and families.
Main Responsibility
Working as an Occupational Therapist as part of the autism assessment service, you will work alongside Community Paediatricians and Psychologists, as well as specialists within the local teams. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s communication and social interaction needs through the use of highly specialised standardised and non-standardised assessment.(To include ADOS, virtual assessment, telephone consultation and completion of diagnostic paperwork)
- Consultation with parents/carers, and other professionals
- Use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management
- To accurately collate key information gathered in order to come to the most appropriate diagnostic outcome through liaison with the child/ young person, their family and the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a qualified Occupational Therapist, with HCPC registration and experience of working with children / young people with autism / suspected autism.
You will be an organised and pro-active individual in order to manage your case load and a number of priorities. As a service we are committed to providing a high quality of care, so this opportunity would suit someone who is patient and a good listener and therefore able to develop effective relationships with the children/young people and their families.
For more information please contact Sarah Hanlon or Sarah Robins at sarah.hanlon@hcrgcareroup.com or sarah.robins@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As an Occupational Therapist within our autism assessment service, you’ll be part of our valued team across Wiltshire, BANEs and Swindon.
You will feel valued being part of HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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