Senior/ Occupational Therapist - APSN Katong School (New Upper Changi Rd)
Full-time
Senior Executive
3 weeks ago
Job Purpose:
Assess students’ functional physical development level; planning and implementing appropriate intervention treatment to meet individua..
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
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