What is the role of an Occupational Therapist?
- Occupational therapists work across health, social care and education providers.
- They have the expertise to assess and provide interventions for children who have difficulty participating in, or successfully completing, everyday tasks including those related to personal care, education and leisure.
- They also work with adults who have acute and rehabilitation needs and also in the areas of well being, daily function and access to daily living.
Did you know?
Approximately 588,000 children with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) in the United Kingdom (National Statistics Office, accessed April 2011).
Supporting Children and Young People: An Occupational Therapist can help children and young people develop the following skills:
- Dressing
- Washing and personal hygiene
- Eating
- Using scissors, pens, pencils and paper
- Tying shoe laces
- Handling objects and toys
- Playing and socialising
- Develop alternative strategies to succeed in specific tasks.
- Manage their school work
- Interact with others
- Accessing activities
- Organise themselves
- Handle tools and equipment
- Increasing levels of independence
- Overcome physical and psychological dysfunction
- Receive orthotics, equipment and advice to increase their access to the community
Our occupational Therapists would usually see children in their home setting, school setting or out in the community undertaking daily activities. It is important to us that your child feels comfortable, motivated and and supported to achieve skills which they may find difficult.
Supporting Adults: An Occupational Therapist can support Adults, and help them to re-establish or maintain skills in:
- Dressing
- Washing and personal hygiene
- Eating and drinking
- Handling objects
- Develop alternative strategies to succeed in specific tasks.
- Manage their work or academic work
- Interacting with others
- Accessing activities
- Organising themselves
- Handling tools and equipment
- Increasing levels of independence
- Overcoming physical and psychological dysfunction
- Support in palliative care needs
- Receiving orthotics, equipment and advice to increase their access to their home and community life
Our occupational Therapist’s would usually see adults in their home setting, acute or rehabilitation setting or out in the community undertaking daily activities. We are also asked to assess adults in their place of work.
It is important to us that the adult feels comfortable, motivated and and supported to achieve skills which they may find difficult.
Our Occupational Therapists are all registered with:
- The Health and Care Professions Council, the regulator for Health Professions.
- They are also registered with BAOT British Association of Occupational Therapists.
How Integrated Treatment Services can support you
We work with a range of specialists who can offer the full range of support in the following specialist clinical fields:
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Self-esteem and self-image
- Stress and anxiety
- Mood disorders
- Self-Harm
- Cerebral Palsy
- Motor co-ordination difficulties
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Eating difficulties and fussy eaters
- Acquired Brain Injury ABI
- Traumatic Brain Injury TBI
- Sensory processing difficulties
- Dysgraphia (difficulties with handwriting)
- Developmental Co-ordination Difficulties (DCD)
What Approaches do our Occupational Therapists offer?
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Approaches to Attachment
- Parenting and Family Work
- Protective Behaviours
- Handwriting Techniques
- Modelof Human Occupation
- Seating and adaptation
- Postural management
- Hand therapy
- Functional housing assessments
- Daily living aids
- Return to work assessments
- Palliative care assessments
- Sensory Processing Techniques
- Social Skills/ ASD/ Self Esteem
- Developmental Co–ordination approaches
- Infant Mental Health – working ante and postnataly to promote Attachment and develop good parenting.
Accessing Occupational Therapy
Statutory Service Support from Integrated Treatment Services
We will always support you accessing the statutory services (Health/Education) which you are entitled to. We can top up therapy when statutory services are not available to you. We can work alongside statutory services forming joint therapy plans, when approaches you would like to access are not readily provided for. You can equally choose to contract our services as an alternative to statutory services, which is common practice for many schools/care settings, commissioners and individuals.
Why Choose Integrated Treatment Services?
- No Waiting Lists – First appointment within one week after referral. If we can’t see you immediately, we will help to direct you to a service which can.
- All our Occupational Therapists are registered with: The Health and Care Professions Council, the regulator for Health Professions, and they are also registered with BAOT British Association of Occupational Therapists.
- We are registered with all the large insurance companies, therefore if you have insurance cover you may wish to check your policy to see if you can access assessment and therapy. Registered providers include: BUPA, Aviva, AXA/PPP.
- Active partners with charities and vouchers schemes which enable our clients to access our therapy.
- We can also work with charity schemes such as Cerebra.
What Other Treatment Services Do We Offer?
We also offer:
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Arts Therapies
- Physiotherapy
- Educational Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
