A healthcare organization provides rehabilitation, advice, care, housing, day activities, and education to people with visual and sometimes intellectual and/or multiple disabilities. The Child and Youth team focuses on children and young people with a visual impairment, as well as individuals with both a visual impairment and an intellectual disability or developmental delay, possibly in combination with multiple disabilities.
As an occupational therapist or developmental therapist, you will investigate support needs and carry out rehabilitation, aimed at identifying and learning to cope with the consequences of visual and any intellectual/additional disabilities on a client's daily functioning and development. Significant time is invested in onboarding and training.
What you do
- Work with clients who may have various eye conditions, specific visual behaviors, multiple disabilities, and other additional sensory impairments.
- Be part of a multidisciplinary team and collaborate closely with other therapists, orthoptists, parent counselors, and behavioral experts.
- Conduct multidisciplinary research and clarify the rehabilitation needs of the client and their support system, after which a treatment plan is drawn up.
- Provide treatment and targeted advice to the client and their support system.
- Perform tasks based on the multidisciplinary treatment plan, using developed methods and plans.
- Monitor, evaluate, and adjust the treatment plan if necessary.
- Contribute to the transfer of knowledge to various institutions and client systems through consultation, advice, and training.
- Delve into various new methods and techniques to better support clients.
- Maintain good contact with various organizations, such as daycare centers, residential locations, and educational institutions.
- Perform duties ambulant or on-site.
What they ask
- Completed relevant HBO (higher professional education) degree (occupational therapy, pedagogy, psychology, etc.).
- Affinity with working with children and adults with intellectual (and/or multiple) disabilities.
- Affinity and possibly experience with providing research and treatment within sensory information processing.
- Good social and didactic skills.
- Flexible attitude and ability to work independently, in a team, and multidisciplinarily.
- Organized, committed, creative, approachable, and proactive.
- Good oral and written communication skills, as well as excellent interpersonal skills.
- Open to feedback and further training.
- In possession of a driving license and a car.
Practical
- Development opportunities and a wide range of training courses from our academy.
- After several years of experience, the opportunity to participate in projects to further develop specific visual expertise for our target group.
- Good employment conditions from the Collective Labor Agreement for Disability Care.
- A gross monthly salary of up to € 5,304,- based on 36 hours (FWG 55).
- Additional employment conditions such as collective insurance and a bicycle plan.
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