Psychomotor Therapist (Bhersaf)

The Psychomotor Therapist, is responsible for providing patients with treatment to help them develop and improve their ability to complete everyday tasks related to their job and daily life. Their duties include performing initial patient assessments, teaching patients to use adaptive technology and coaching them through therapeutic activities; through using special equipment or by applying adaptation for the material.

Duties and responsibilities

A Psychomotor Therapist must have the expertise at a variety of duties and responsibilities, such as:

• Assessing the patient’s physical, communication and cognitive skills to develop a treatment plan 
• Giving advice and providing support for family members and caregivers
• Assessing the home environments of the patient and deciding what adjustments are needed.
• Advising on adaptive equipment to help clients with daily activities.
• Installing the necessary equipment in the house for children with disabilities and teaching them how to use the equipment
• Helping children to be independent in everyday activities based on their unique conditions
• Assisting patients’ exercise for pain relief
• Applying interventions to maximize safety and performance in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)
• Reviewing the patient’s progress and adapting the treatment accordingly
• Performing administrative tasks such as keeping records, writing reports and making collaboration when needed
•  Synthesizing evaluation results into a comprehensive written report which reflects strengths and barriers to child’s participation in the educational environment; directs program development; and guides evidence-based intervention.

Team collaboration:

Psychomotor therapist regularly collaborates with other disciplines and services at departmental and system levels. Psychomotor therapist is expected to independently review outcomes and modify intervention programs. Clinical reasoning and professional judgment are essential to ensuring the safety of children and protecting liability of SOS system and the therapist.

These are the main important tasks:  

• Collaborating with other disciplines to ensure team understanding of child psychomotor performance strengths and needs, through evaluation, educational program planning, and service delivery.
• Participating in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individual development plans and intervention plans to achieve IDP goals.
• Participating in case study meeting with multidisciplinary team in order to develop individual development plans and intervention plans to achieve IDP goals.
• Providing experiential learning, and treatment groups to address self and body awareness, cognitive and school related skills, independence and social skills.
• Ability to participate collaboratively with educators to develop Individualized Education Plans to meet child’s needs.

Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible within own area of work to prevent and protect children of all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination based on SOS Child Protection Policy principles

• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to respective line manager