Junior Occupational Therapist

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Junior Occupational TherapistThe Hamilton International School Doha, Qatar Date Added: Aug 18, 2022 Share: share to e-mailISP Teacher Role ProfileShared Ideas.You know and model your school?s values and contribute to its mission and vision through your daily actions. Through all aspects of learning and teaching, you create a strong sense of shared behaviors and purpose for learners and their learning.Learning and Teaching.You put learners and their learning first in your design and facilitation of learning outcomes, content and experiences, which are underpinned by positive and supportive relationships. You understand the types and phases of learning and apply your knowledge, skills and understanding of these to effectively facilitate learning, teaching, and assessing to meet the personalized needs of each student. You empower students to lead their own learning, supporting them to monitor, assess and adjust their learning in response to feedback. You continuously inquire into the process of learning, making evidence-informed decisions and taking action to further improve learning and teaching.Learning Spaces.You create and use spaces to support and demonstrate the school?s shared ideas about learners and learning and the ways in which students are getting better. You ensure learning spaces (physical and digital) are safe, collaborative, accessible and inclusive, and enable students to play an active role in their development.Job Role:JuniorOccupational TherapistThe Junior Occupational Therapist?s (OT) priority is to provide clinically effective, person centred, and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and intervention to students at The Hamilton International School. THE junior OT will also provide support and training to all education staff regarding occupational therapy interventions.JOB PURPOSE AND SCOPE:To provide support and training to all education staff with regard to occupational therapy interventions. The Junior Occupational Therapist will be expected to work in collaboration with allied professionals and will need to maintain links with a variety of bodies. These will include: To provide an Occupational Therapy service to the school, focusing on sensory motor development and functional skills. To use clinical reasoning skills, to analyse and interpret assessment results in order to set appropriate therapy goals and outcome measures. To liaise with all team members and family/carers to provide a coordinated approach and ensure occupational therapy treatment is integrated into the student?s targets that support learning and skills for daily living. This could include home visits and monitoring phone calls. To develop and monitor OT programmes implemented by the Special Education Teachers and Learning assistants. To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out duties, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice. To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice where appropriate. To promote awareness of the role of occupational therapy within the school and home community. Perform playground duties on time and with due diligence to safeguard Hamilton studentsExperience:Minimum 3 years? relevant experience Excellent communication skills and command of the English language, in spoken and written form Organization skills: well organized and able to prioritize, multi tasks and meet deadlines Ability to negotiate, persuade and motivate others A collaborative team-player with excellent interpersonal skills The ability to develop good personal relationships within a team * Demonstrated competency to use computer applications related to the role, including word processing and spreadsheet applications * Record keeping and report preparation methods * Interpersonal skills including tact, courtesy and patience * Customer focused * Willingness to undertake appropriate Professional Development Passionate about delivering quality education Qualifications & experience in areas relating to Inclusive Education Qualifications in Occupational/Speech & Language/Behaviour/Music Therapy

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