Occupational Therapist

7 days ago

Singapore APSN EDUCATION SERVICES LTD. Full time

Unlock your career in education with a rewarding role as an Occupational Therapist at APSN Education Services Ltd.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our team. As an Occupational Therapist, you will play a vital role in supporting students with intellectual disabilities, providing expert assessment, intervention, and program development services.

Job Description
  • Job Purpose: To assess students' functional physical development level, plan and implement appropriate intervention treatment to meet individual student objectives, and provide recommendations for accessibility, program development, and student placement.
  • Key Responsibilities:

Evaluation & Assessment

  • Assess and identify individual needs of students related to occupational therapy issues and concerns to develop intervention procedures.
  • Provide re-assessment, review of goals, and progress regularly to track students' progress.
  • Evaluate, prescribe, and provide provision of adaptive equipment/assistive devices as required by the student(s) to improve function.
  • Monitor and evaluate student's functional abilities and make recommendations regarding student's suitability to prepare students for work/attachment.
  • Collaborate with other disciplines to provide team understanding of student occupational performance strengths and needs.
  • Evaluate the student's ability and formulate the student's occupational profile through a variety of functional, behavioral, and standardized assessments, skilled observation, checklists, histories, and interviews to gather informative data.
  • Synthesize evaluation results into a comprehensive written report to facilitate student participation in the educational environment, for program development, and evidence-based intervention.
  • Develop occupationally based intervention plans based on student needs and evaluation results to support student needs and development.
  • Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individual education plans and intervention plans to achieve IEP goals.

Program Planning / Intervention

  • Formulate/develop and implement appropriate individualized occupational therapy programs to improve student's functional performance and skills.
  • Design classroom-based programs that integrated with the curriculum to improve student's functional performance and skills.
  • Select and prepare functional activities that can be easily modified to match student's skill and interest thus ensure success.
  • Provide classroom and work site modifications to improved student functional performance and skills.
  • Conduct home visit to support student treatment needs.
  • Provide parent/caregiver support such as home program to encourage continuity of the occupational therapy intervention at home.
  • Provide classroom and work site modifications to support treatment needs.
  • Assist with aspects of training for students on job-trial and work preparation program to support student functional performance and skills.
  • Educate student, educational personnel, and family to facilitate skills in areas of occupation as well as health maintenance and safety.

Program Administration and Management

  • Maintain clinical and administrative records of students to uphold professional standards and school system policy.
  • Manage inventory of therapeutic equipment and assessments, and project needs to support budget planning. Keep proper inventory of all equipment and fixtures with regular updating for accountability.
  • Propose and justify budget to manage OT program.
  • Participate actively in continuing education program within the organization, NCSS, and other professional bodies to improve support services.
  • Conduct in-house training programs to upgrade the professional knowledge and skills for relevant staff/parents/caregivers/volunteers in the organization to provide professional input to stakeholders.
  • Submit monthly report and other related written reports to the executive director and school principal to support strategic operations.
  • Review occupational therapy services to make quality improvement and changes.
  • Collate and prepare High Need Grants documents.
  • Conduct meeting with Allied Professional (AP) staff to review occupational therapy services for quality improvement and makes changes as needed.
  • Prepare agenda for AP meeting with the Principal. Vet the minutes of AP assistant taken during AP meeting to track follow up actions and accuracy of report.
  • Induct new teacher, volunteer, and teachers on work attachment to help them to understand AP services.

Professional Consultation

  • Provide consultation to teachers and other related professional staff to improve students' functional performance and skills.
  • Liaise with various discipline involved in the rehabilitative treatment process. (e.g teachers, parents, principal, school administrator, and professional staff to support student needs)
  • Liaise with various professional disciplines in the rehabilitative treatment process to improve student results.

Professional Growth and Ethics

  • Participate in continuing education for professional development to provide practice that is consistent with best practice.
  • Use professional literature, evidence-based research, and continuing education content to make practice decisions.
  • Use professional code of ethics and standards of practice to guide ethical decision making in practice.

Admission and Review

  • Conduct screening of applicants for placement in school to support strategic operation.
  • Assess the child's numeracy/literacy skills, behavior, motor skills, and sensory issues to support placement for learning.
  • Meet the parents to feedback on classroom observation to provide support services.
  • Prepare the screening reports and meet the admission and review committee to discuss the outcomes of the application.
  • Attend to walk-in parents and phone inquiries to answer query on admission.
  • Attend to MAAP meeting for student placement.
  • Support teachers in managing students during crisis situation to support student needs.

Job Requirements

  • Degree in Occupational Therapy recognised by the AHPC with 3 to 5 years clinical experience.
  • Applicants with relevant qualifications with no working experience are welcomed to apply.
  • Interpersonal skills, Classroom management skills, takes Initiative, effective communication, Passionate, Creative, Non-Judgmental.
  • Relevant work experience with children and young adults with intellectual disability would be an advantage.
  • Ability to work with minimum supervision.
  • Valid practising certificate with Allied Health Professional Council (AHPC).
  • Strong in verbal and written English.

Salary: S$60,000 - S$80,000 per annum

Location: Singapore

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