Occupational Therapist

An **Occupational Therapist **at The Winstedt School uses discipline-specific skills to provide goal-orientated treatment through both direct and consultative intervention strategies for students, in order to facilitate occupational skill development, motivate them and capture their interest.

All in-house therapists are members of the academic faculty and enjoy all school term breaks and receive annual professional development grants to continue to stay highly relevant in the field of therapy and inclusive education.

Winstedt employees go to work every day to push the boundaries of traditional education by providing an individualised learning environment that challenges, engages, and spurs creativity. We believe that there are many paths to successful learning, and we strive to create equal opportunities for our students to experience academic success.

If you are passionate about helping students realise their potential; if you are a driven, open-minded, empathetic, and collaborative professional interested in making a difference, we invite you to join our team.

**Responsibilities:
**OT and Integrated Therapy**
- Participate in regular multidisciplinary meetings (as required) to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individualized education plans and intervention plans to achieve specific short term and long-term goals.
- To assist with the integrated therapy service model collaborating with the therapy and teaching team in ensuring understanding of student occupational performance strengths and needs through evaluation, educational program planning, and delivery.

**Orientation, Supervision and Education**
- Provide and document general supervision to OT Interns.
- To implement and maintain supervision in line with the AHPC Singapore Supervisory framework and keep up to date with AHPC’s mandatory legislation.
- To provide education and training to parents, teachers and other professionals including awareness talks, in-service training, workshops and keep abreast of current ethical practice and current diagnostic criteria.

**Intervention and Collaboration**
- Provide targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and occupational performance within diverse school environments, including but not limited to the classroom, playground, fieldtrips, camps, special activities as part of the school routine.
- Provide Integrated support including push-in classroom support and pull-out groups to students in every designated classroom, on a weekly basis, in consult with the respective Head of School and in collaboration with the teachers, across both teacher-led and therapist-led activities.
- Carry out an average of five (1 per working day of the week) Group Therapy sessions per week.
- Conduct observations and provide written feedback during screening for students on class trials.

**Documentation and Communication**
- Maintain up-to-date documentation in each student profile corresponding to therapy services received in the school year, updated at the end of each term.
- Provide parent communication in keeping with School communication for push-in support to ensure parents are updated on Integrated Therapy classroom sessions.

**Requirements**:

- Tertiary degree (or equivalent) qualification in Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with the Allied Health Professions Council in Singapore.
- At least 3-5 years of relevant experience.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office/Teams, Outlook, Google Classroom and ability to use digital resources and educational technology.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to engage effectively with staff members, children, parents and other associated professionals.
- Good time management skills.
- Problem solver with a positive and growth mindset.
- Resilient and flexible.