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My experience...

Jan 2021 - present: Supervising OT

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  • Providing online supervision sessions to OTs currently working independently and within special school settings in London 

  • Within these sessions I foster professional growth through case discussion, mutual research and the sharing of my experience working independently and as part of the NHS - in addition as a former teacher I am able to share my experience of being in the classroom and am able to provide a unique perspective when looking at case management and managing within classroom dynamics

  • Sessions are particularly focused on caseload management, professional development, role of an OT within settings and signposting towards essential and useful information. 


 

Sept 2019 - Jan 2021: Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 7), NHS Children's Integrated Therapies Team, NELFT

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Band 7 role within the service:

  • Involved in service improvement and development 

  • Staff training

  • Assessment and report writing

  • Supervision and training of junior therapists 

  • Tribunal report writing and attendance 

  • During the Covid pandemic: supporting parents at home, remote assessments, providing resources for my schools, supervision and support to team members, wrote a parent blog - raising awareness of sensory needs and giving ideas of how to support children at home during lockdown

  • Moving to Berlin: continued to play a consulting role, supporting junior therapists in their report writing and assessment process, delivered remote training, attended a parent sensory needs question and answer forum, supervised and supported junior and experienced therapists new to the service. 

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Weekly OT at Oakleigh special needs school - primary:

  • Managing a caseload - setting up group and individual OT intervention

  • Training of staff

  • Working as part of an MDT - including liaising with private practitioners

  • Trouble-shooting across school

  • Equipment management, assessing and purchasing of new adapted equipment e.g. toilet seats, classroom chairs and classroom seating systems

  • Particular projects: set-up movement and motor skills groups, delivered a cross-classroom sensory movement story and provided intervention to students with limited physical disability to access movement and the related sensory input safely.

 

Weekly OT at Oaklodge special needs school - secondary 

  • Same as above 

  • Particular projects: set-up whole school use of Motor Skills United, provided a more sensory rich curriculum for autistic students, worked with individual teachers to put more movement into their lesson planning and rolled out a whole school sensory ‘first aid’ approach in all classrooms - including the use of an equipment free sensory circuit. 

 

​March 2020: Specialist Teacher, Oaklodge Cognition and Learning College:

  • Teaching in an SLD class whilst the class teacher was off on paternity leave

  • Classroom organisation

  • Curriculum planning

  • Instilling classroom structure and routine 

  • Demonstrating a therapeutic teaching model to senior leaders with the aim to change the approach to teaching of their SLD classes. 

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August 2016 - present: Sensory Integration Practitioner, Independent​

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  • Using appropriate assessments to assess a child's sensory needs 

  • Providing weekly therapy sessions to work on sensory processing difficulties

  • Providing training to parents and teachers 

  • Advising on appropriate equipment 

  • Setting up of home programmes to support sensory processing development. 

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Sept 2016 - Oct 2019: OT at Woolmore Primary School, Tower Hamlets

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  • Setting up and support in the running of an alternative curriculum for 10 students with ASD/ significant sensory and learning needs 

  • Working with teachers and SENCO to problem solve around classroom inclusion

  • Setting up of a sensory space

  • Delivering training around sensory circuits; use of the sensory space; motor skills and posture for learning

  • Setting up and running of groups 

  • Individual assessment and report writing. 

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Feb 2018 - July 2018: Leader of sensory play sessions at my home

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  • Weekly sessions consisting of a sensory circuit for babies

  • Giving an opportunity for new mums to learn about their baby's sensory development 

  • Promoting ideas for activities for mums to do at home with their babies to encourage normal sensory and motor development. 

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Sept 2016- Dec 2017: Director of Inclusive Notes (currently paused due to maternity leave)

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  • Inclusive Notes is a therapeutic choir for children aged 6-11 with additional needs in Hackney. The target group for this intervention is children with autism and ADHD: http://www.inclusivenotes.com/

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March 2017 - Dec 2017: OT at Culloden Primary School, Tower Hamlets

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  • Training of TAs

  • Setting up a sensory room and integrative play room

  • Working with the speech and language therapist to run a 'party planning' group that focuses on functional language and tasks

  • Assessing children with sensory needs and putting together sensory programmes to complete in the sensory room. 

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Oct 2016 - Dec 2017: Trustee at the International Pre-Autistic Network

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Sept 2014- August 2016: Study for MSc Occupational Therapy
 

  • Master thesis written about auditory processing in children with ASD

  • Various practice placements including a final placement in a community paediatric team

  • Learning included assessment of individual function and environment; intervention planning; activity analysis; movement analysis; adaptations of environment and task; and use of activity to support recovery and or to facilitate learning

  • Strong competencies developed include: evidenced based practice; communication; task analysis; intervention planning; and assessment of individual function in activities of daily living.

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Sept 2014 – Dec 2014: Specialist Teacher
 

  • Supporting the set-up of a specialist unit attached to a mainstream primary school – two classes, one supporting children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the other supporting children with Profound and Moderate Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

  • Planning and implementing of a numeracy scheme of work for children with PMLD.

  • Small group and one to one numeracy support of children with ASD and PMLD.

  • Training of teaching assistants in effective support within and outside mainstream education.

  • Supporting students in mainstream, and advising classroom teachers of effective in class intervention.

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Sept 2011 – August 2014: Science Teacher
 

  • Teaching of science to key stages 3 and 4.

  • Teaching of psychology AS and A-level.

  • Planning and delivery of inclusive practical lessons.

  • Tutor to year 7 providing pastoral support to all, advising teachers on students within my group with health needs such as sickle cell anaemia.

  • Raising awareness of mental health through developing a partnership with Sane and delivering assemblies throughout year groups.

  • Working with the special educational needs department to review intervention strategies across the school.

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