Our client has a fantastic permanent OT Band 6 vacancy in their permanent vacancy working across Beaconsfield and Sutton sites. This College is an Outstanding Specialist College (Ofsted, November 2019) offering life-changing learning opportunities to young people and adults with a range of special education needs and/or disabilities. They have nine vibrant community-based College Centres across London and Surrey where committed, specialist teams deliver a range of programmes to meet the needs of over 400 students.
Students who study with them have a wide range of needs including profound and multiple learning disabilities, communication and behavioural difficulties and specific medical needs. All students are individual, and their learning programme is designed to support and empower them to achieve their aspirations and goals, whilst developing skills to become more independent members of their community.

Job Role:
* To use a person centred approach to promote choice, independence, and inclusion, reflecting the key principals of Valuing People (DOH 2002), Valuing People Now and the Human Rights Act and working towards the Preparing for Adulthood Agenda, in order to enable the student to achieve his/her academic, social and employment potential.
* their families, modelling person centred and collaborative working, at all times promoting students human's rights, dignity and individual choices.
* To work with external agencies (e.g. Schools, work placements, social services, community learning disability teams etc.) to ensure a smooth transition of student's sensory, upper limb, seating and skill development information and equipment, both into and when leaving the college.
* To assess student's sensory, upper limb/ fine motor, seating, activity/ ADL participation and learning environment needs using a range of formal and informal assessments and observations and manage a diverse clinical caseload independently.
* To keep up to date with current and new manual handling techniques in order to design appropriate moving and handling guidelines for learners to access personal care who have significant physical disabilities in addition to their learning disability, using a range of techniques and equipment ensuring safe practice.
* To plan, implement, and review person-centred individual and/or group interventions, which aim to improve functional abilities and participation in college-related learning activities as well as everyday life.
* To monitor, evaluate and modify intervention in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
* To enable teaching and support staff to deliver the curriculum at an appropriate sensory and skill development level through contributing to support plans, planning & delivering staff training, coaching and reflecting with staff.
* To work with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the college is supported in the delivery of a "Capable environment" in the area of sensory environment and task analysis and support through participating in audits, learner walks, training, coaching and feedback to class teams.

Requirements:
* Degree or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* UK HPC Registration
*Experience with people over 16 who have severe/profound and multiple learning disabilities and / or Autism

For More information, please contact parul.patel@justot.co.uk