Occupational Therapy Expert

Occupational Therapist Role:

As an occupational therapist, you will be responsible for assessing students' functional physical development level and planning appropriate intervention treatment to meet individual student objectives. You will 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 students' functional abilities and make recommendations regarding students' suitability to prepare students for work/attachment.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to provide team understanding of students' occupational performance strengths and needs.
• Evaluate students' ability and formulate their 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 students' participation in the educational environment, for program development, and evidence-based intervention.
• Develop occupationally based intervention plans based on students' needs and evaluation results to support students' 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 students' functional performance and skills.
• Design classroom-based programs that integrate with the curriculum to improve students' functional performance and skills.
• Select and prepare functional activities that can be easily modified to match students' skill and interest thus ensure success.
• Provide classroom and work site modifications to improve students' functional performance and skills.
• Conduct home visits to support students' treatment needs.
• Provide parent/caregiver support such as home programs 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 programs to support students' functional performance and skills.

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 budgets to manage OT programs.
• Participate actively in continuing education programs within the organization, NCSS, and other professional bodies to improve support services.

Professional Consultation:

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

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy recognized by the AHPC with 3-5 years of clinical experience.
• Applicants with relevant qualifications and 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 practicing certificate with Allied Health Professional Council (AHPC).
• Strong in verbal and written English.

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