Senior Occupational Therapist

Cpl Healthcare; Ennis; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

28–29 days annual leave

Defined Benefit Pension Plan

Full Training provided

Career progression

Sick pay benefits

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Cpl Healthcare is recruiting a Senior Occupational Therapist for Adult Services in Ennis. The post involves delivering sensory-focused OT interventions to adults with intellectual disability and complex needs, working within a multidisciplinary team to support engagement in daily activities.

Responsibilities include assessments, developing strategies for sensory processing, and reporting outcomes to inform service delivery. Training and development opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• CORU-registered Occupational Therapist qualification.
• Clinical experience with disability.
• Postgraduate education in Sensory Integration is desirable.
• Experience using sensory assessment tools as part of OT assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide OT assessments and interventions for adults with intellectual disability and complex needs.
• Collaborate with MDT to identify strategies supporting sensory processing challenges.
• Measure and report OT outcomes to inform service delivery.

Skills

Sensory processing

Behaviour support

Training/teaching

MDT collaboration

Education

CORU-registered OT

Job description

Role: Senior Occupational Therapist – Adult Services

Location: Based in Ennis (Clare country wide role)

About Client:

Our clients ethos empower people with intellectual disability and autism and their families to live the lives they choose. Their focus is to form a relationship/partnership with each individual and his or her family, enabling them to design their own service so that they can enjoy a real meaningful life in a real place with a healthy balance of supports. They wish to create opportunities for people with an intellectual disability to have valued social roles in their communities and to have the chance to form real friendships. In order to assist us to achieve this vision we wish to recruit innovative and proactive people who will relish the opportunity to assist in implementing this vision.

Job Summary

This Occupational Therapist role is dedicated to providing occupational therapy intervention for adults with Intellectual Disability and complex needs who experience sensory difficulties contributing to behaviours that challenge and ability to engage in everyday activities. The Occupational Therapist, will work with the other MDT professionals in identifying strategies, to assist those with sensory processing challenges.

Role

The role will require close working with other members of the multidisciplinary team using a person-centred approach to provide occupational therapy assessments and deliver interventions to adults with Intellectual disability and complex needs.

The post holder will work alongside the Principal Psychologist and the Behaviour Support Team and will be responsible for measuring and reporting on occupational therapy outcomes as part of the team to inform service delivery

The remit of the post is to assess those with sensory processing needs and to develop and evaluate strategies in supporting those with sensory processing challenges. This post will provide sensory occupational therapy supports to people supported by the client across county Clare.

Reporting To:

Principal Psychologist

Works With:

• People supported and families
• Multidisciplinary Teams
• Area Managers, Service Co-ordinators, Team-leaders and Front-Line Staff
• Educational, Health, Vocational and Community Agencies
• Line Manager

Eligibility Criteria

Qualifications

Candidates must at the latest date of application:

• Hold an Occupational therapy qualification recognised by the Occupational Therapy Registration Board at CORU.

Experience

Candidates must have:

• Clinical experience working with people with a disability
• Clinical knowledge addressing poor engagement and sensory regulation issues
• It is highly desirable for candidates to have:
• Experience providing Occupational Therapy (O.T) assessments and interventions for people with Intellectual disability, Autism and complex needs.
• Relevant post graduate education and/or CPD accredited courses in Sensory Integration.
• Experience of using sensory assessment tools, as part of a comprehensive O.T assessment, which considers sensory issues in the context of the person’s occupational performance within relevant environments.
• Experience of implementing sensory interventions that aim to facilitate occupational performance by adapting tasks, &/or the environment &/or improving the person’s capacity for self-regulation.
• Presentation/training/teaching/coaching skills.

Some of our benefits:

• Competitive Rates of Pay (€65,197- €76,767 Pro-Rata)
• 29 days Annual Leave
• Defined Benefit Pension Plan
• Full Training provided
• Career Progression
• Sick Pay Benefits
• Employee Assistance Programs