Occupational Therapist أخصائي علاج وظيفي
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الوصف الوظيفي Identify, evaluate, and treat functional sensorimotor, perceptual, and fine motor deficits in students with physical, cognitive, and emotional/behavioral challenges through collaboration with teachers, parents and other related service providers. BASIC ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Provide consultative and direct occupational therapy services. 2. Assess and evaluate the student’s skills and level of functioning using appropriate developmental instruments for different ages, developmental disabilities and severity levels. 3. Develop and implement individualized educational plans and instructional programs. 4. Assess the individual’s strengths and areas for improvement that will be addressed through therapy sessions and family programming. 5. Assess occupations and/or performance skills such as self-care (ADL) gross motor, fine motor, perceptual visual-motor and social skills. 6. Participate in Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team (MET) and Individual Education Plan (I.E.P) meetings when appropriate. 7. Participate in the individual education planning, collaborating with teachers as appropriate for each student to receive occupational therapy services. 8. Assess and conduct life skills training and development for all ages. 9. Synthesize information obtained through observations, assessment and interpretation of the data collected in order to develop goals, intervention plans and approaches based on clinical judgement, knowledge and skills as well as evidence-based practices and models. 10. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team to implement therapeutic and educational programs as well as art, recreational and technological based programs. 11. Administer various treatment techniques including but not limited to customized intervention programs to improve one’s ability to perform daily activities, comprehensive home and job evaluations with adaptation recommendations and adaptive equipment recommendations. 12. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment and modifies as needed. 13. Provide ongoing and periodic evaluations of student’s progress, documenting progress with the same frequency and maintain documentation that includes an initial assessment, progress notes and a dismissal. 14. Communicate, develop and maintain a professional relationship with parents/caregivers and members of the multi-disciplinary team to promote maximum benefit of care and rehabilitation. 15. Perform other duties to support the overall effectiveness of the unit. 16. Comply with ACCEL policies. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: · Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited institution. · Possession of a current license to practice Occupational Therapy · Professional Certification required from an accredited organization · Five (5) years of experience in Pediatric Occupational Therapy preferred and working with children with special needs. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret educational documents and assessments. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from parents/caregivers and other individuals authorized to obtain educational information. Bilingual in Arabic and English preferred. المهارات 1. Provide consultative and direct occupational therapy services. Duties include: consulting and providing ideas to teachers and parents: providing therapy and instruction to students in the classroom setting. 2. Evaluate and write evaluation reports for students in need of therapy services using a variety of diagnostic tests, informal rating scales, observational opportunities and other means, as appropriate. 3. Participates in MET and IEP meetings when appropriate, to discuss a student’s Occupational Therapy evaluation, present level of performance and to make recommendations regarding IEP goals and objectives. 4. Develops and writes Individual Education Plans for each student requiring therapy services providing student’s present level of performance and formulating annual goals and benchmark objectives. 5. Evaluates student’s progress through ongoing and periodic assessments, documenting progress with the same frequency as for all ACCEL students. 6. Prepares treatment plans and develops creative therapeutic activities which reflect best practices and meets the functional sensorimotor, perceptual, and fine motor needs of students. 7. Maintain up to date and accurate student list, dates of IEP reviews, scheduled meetings, and current copies of student goals and objectives. 8. Consults with teachers, therapists, directors and other school professionals to provide collaborative programming and problem solve student issues. Therapist will work, as appropriate, within the classroom utilizing a team approach with education staff in delivering functional sensorimotor, perceptual, and fine motor activities. This will include providing writing activities when appropriate, developing sample materials and strategies for teachers when not in the classroom. 9. Responsible for determining alternate seating and adaptive feeding equipment needs of students. 10. Develop and maintain a professional relationship with ACCEL staff, parents/caregivers and members of the community at large. 11. Submit all reports within designated time frames. 12. Maintain an accurate record keeping system. 13. Maintains therapy department equipment and materials. 14. Participates in school meetings, in-services, and committees designed to improve/enhance the overall school program. Contribute to the professional growth of colleagues by providing relevant in-services. 15. Maintains regular attendance. 16. Performs related duties, special assignments and projects as required by the Leadership. تفاصيل الوظيفة https://www.bayt.com/ar/saudi-arabia/jobs/occupational-therapist-أخصائي-علاج-وظيÙÙŠ-4356740/ |
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