School-Based Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Department of Education Victoria; Geelong; Sur place; AUD 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Western Heights College in Geelong, Victoria, seeks a motivated Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join its Inclusion and Wellbeing team. The role focuses on functional capacity, curriculum access, task modification, assistive technology, and equipment prescription to help students participate in learning.

You will identify barriers, work with students and classroom teams, and deliver targeted 1:1 therapy and group interventions, balancing today’s access with building future independence.

Qualifications

• SC1: Inclusive education for learners with additional needs.
• SC2: Interpersonal, collaborative skills within transdisciplinary teams.
• SC3: Maintaining documentation, goals, and assessments.
• SC4: Experience delivering professional development to staff.
• SC5: Knowledge of sensory processing and related interventions.
• SC6: Understanding Disability Inclusion Model.

Responsabilités

• Completing functional and occupational assessments to understand barriers to participation.
• Assessing how a student's physical, sensory, cognitive, fine motor, visual-perceptual and executive functioning skills impact curriculum access.
• Working directly within classrooms to analyse learning tasks and identify barriers to participation.
• Modifying classroom activities and learning tasks to improve accessibility.
• Recommending and prescribing assistive technology and specialised equipment.
• Supporting positioning, seating, access and functional participation within learning environments.
• Trialling equipment and strategies within the classroom environment.
• Developing individualised programs to build students' functional capacity and independence.
• Supporting fine motor, handwriting, technology access and other functional skills.
• Delivering targeted 1:1 therapy and small-group interventions.
• Collaborating with teachers and Education Support staff to embed therapeutic strategies.

Connaissances

Inclusive education

Interpersonal skills

Documentation

Professional development

Sensory processing

Functional interventions

Collaboration

Outils

Assistive technology

Description du poste

Western Heights College in Geelong, Victoria, seeks a motivated Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join its Inclusion and Wellbeing team. The role focuses on functional capacity, curriculum access, task modification, assistive technology, and equipment prescription to help students participate in learning.

You will identify barriers, work with students and classroom teams, and deliver targeted 1:1 therapy and group interventions, balancing today’s access with building future independence.