Sensory Integration Occupational Therapist; band 6​/equivalent

Overview

Job Summary:

Are you passionate about working with children who have encountered a difficult and traumatic start to life? Do you want to make a real difference to adopted and care-experienced young people? We are looking to expand our Sensory Integration provision to meet the growing need of our service users for high quality assessments and interventions. We recognise the crucial role sensory integration can have in achieving good outcomes for the children and families we support and having got our sensory package established, we need the right person to help us grow and develop it.

You will be working closely with our existing SI OTs and team of Psychologists and Therapists to offer multi-disciplinary assessments of attachment and sensory needs for children. You may also be offering consultations to families regarding their childs sensory needs and there is scope to offer direct work to children and families as well as consultation and training to the wider network.

The Child Psychology Service (TCPS) CIC is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to provide caring, therapeutic, psychological support to children and their families. We provide a free-at-the-point-of-access service to families and deliver training and consultations to partner organisations. We work closely with our colleagues in the NHS and social care to provide specialist, therapeutic assessments and interventions that arent always available within statutory services.

• Provide high-quality sensory assessments & therapy to children and their families remotely & potentially in their homes/schools under supervision
• To provide effective sensory therapies to children under supervision
• Provide high quality, succinct assessment reports, which guide interventions
• To develop your skills to enable you to deliver SI parent consultations in the future
• Provide high quality, succinct evaluation reports, which demonstrate effectiveness of interventions
• To build and maintain relationships with children and their families & the professional networks around them, often in highly challenging circumstances
• Provide consultation & training to professionals
• Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary team to promote the safety of children and management of risk
• Maintain the high reputation of the service
• Work with the team to develop new areas of service provision e.g. consultation to Residential Homes, training to schools etc
• Work within the needs of a social enterprise
• Ensure that work is high quality
• Reach productivity targets required to sustain the service
• Play an active role in promoting and advocating for the service
• Ensure that all TCPS policies and procedures are understood and put into practice
• Attend and actively participate in staff development sessions, team meetings, individual or group supervision, clinical supervision and other meetings as required
• To work flexibly and occasionally work unsocial hours to meet the needs of the service as required
• To undertake any other duties as required in line with the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and its grading

• Full and part-time hours considered - minimum three days per week
• A mixture of both face-to-face work in your local area - West or East Midlands and online work nationally
• A dedicated SI clinic space at both bases
• Opportunities to train in attachment-informed approaches e.g. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, SAI
• Regular in-house supervision from a psychologist plus specialist SI focussed supervision
• Monthly journal club
• An opportunity to specialise in attachment and developmental trauma within a team who lives and breathes PACE
• Great benefits including competitive salary linked to NHS A4C pay scales; 26 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and the option to purchase up to five additional days (FTE); maternity packages, and membership of a pension scheme
• Being part of a friendly, happy and extremely dedicated team where staff wellbeing is a priority and you can manage your own workload
• A role where people say this about working here:
  It is so satisfying working with families that are motivated and engaged. TCPS really cares for its children and families
• The opportunity to work for an organisation consistently rated OUTSTANDING by Ofsted:
  The work undoubtedly ensures families stay together

Experience (Essential):
Applicants will have completed some post graduate sensory integration training, but we will support the right applicant to continue their qualification journey.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

The Child Psychology Service CIC
8 High Street
Bloxwich
Walsall
WS3 2DA

8 Brook Street
Shepshed
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE12 9RG

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