Total 1 job vacancies by Apsn Education Services Ltd.

Job Purpose:

Assess students’ functional physical development level; planning and implementing appropriate intervention treatment to meet individual student objectives; 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 the 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