Job Description
Job Title: Senior Occupational Therapist Hours: 35 hours per week Position: Full time or Part time Contract: Specified purpose 6-month contract Are you a Senior Occupational Therapist looking for a meaningful opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and families with disabilities? If you are passionate about facilitating life changing interventions and want to be part of a supportive child disability team, this could be the perfect role for you. Meet your potential employer: Charlene Cooke Healthcare Recruitment is currently seeking to appoint an experienced and highly skilled Senior Occupational Therapist on behalf of a growing child disability team. You will have the chance to expand your clinical expertise and professional skills in a supportive and dynamic environment. This is a rare opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to advance your career and join a vibrant interdisciplinary child disability team. Role Purpose: We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist for a Child Disability Team in Waterford City. As a senior member of the interdisciplinary team, you will provide comprehensive Occupational therapy services to children and families in the region. The role includes assessments, diagnostics, interventions, clinical supervision, and ongoing service delivery to children with a range of disabilities. Services are provided to children aged 0-18 years with physical, sensory, learning disabilities, developmental delays, and autism. Key Responsibilities: Organise individual and group caseloads, including assessments, interventions, and diagnosis for children (0-18 years) with disabilities such as physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, developmental delays, and autism. Foresee potential challenges or competing priorities and take appropriate action to maintain service standards. Foster a sense of accountability for budgets within the team, ensuring value for money. Monitor, record, and report performance outcomes and service delivery statistics to meet targets. Show innovation in managing resources to sustain and enhance service quality. Provide line management and clinical supervision to basic grade occupational therapists, volunteers, and students as required. Demonstrate sufficient clinical skills in occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and diagnostics to meet the specific needs of children with disabilities. Offer occupational therapy services including assessment, intervention, clinical supervision, and ongoing care to children in the early intervention service. Essential: Be registered, or eligible for registration, as an Occupational Therapist with CORU. Have at least 3 years of full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-qualification clinical experience Hold full CORU Registration. Experience working with children with disabilities, including physical, sensory, intellectual, and autism spectrum disorder. Relevant postgraduate training related to child disability services. Specific experience in assessing and supporting children with autism and other disabilities. Experience in working with children with life-limiting conditions. Previous experience in a Senior Occupational Therapy role. Familiarity with assessments under the AON process. What to Expect: The chance to work independently and collaboratively, allowing you to make informed decisions that shape the care provided. Extensive professional development, clinical support, and mentorship to enhance your career growth. Joining a close knit and experienced multidisciplinary team, working alongside Occupational Therapists, and Physiotherapists who are experts in their respective fields. A mixed caseload of paediatrics that will establish a solid foundation of experience. You will have generous annual leave entitlements You will have flexible working entitlement. What you need to do now: For more information about this opportunity, please reach out confidentially to Charlene Cooke by email or telephone . Skills: Paediatric disabilities autism occupational therapy