Volunteer Occupational Therapist

September 16, 2026 Auto Import

Role Overview As an Occupational Therapist in our rehabilitation team, your role will be to remotely provide age-appropriate and tailored occupational therapy assessment, advice and intervention to children with acute trauma and injuries and those with chronic conditions in Gaza. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation, health, and medical team, alongside staff based in Gaza and internationally across several countries. Key Responsibilities <ul> <li>Support the Rehabilitation team's mission by effectively engaging with the CNN Multi-Disciplinary Team to remotely provide optimal rehabilitation advice and intervention to injured and disabled children in Gaza.</li> <li> Maintain consistent communication that enables effective patient care, operational efficiency, and timely decision-making.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Assess patients' physical and functional conditions and equipment requirements to determine treatment needs.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Plan and implement therapeutic interventions to help patients develop, recover, or maintain the skills and function necessary for daily living.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Develop, monitor and evaluate individualised treatment plans to improve and/or maintain patients' ability to perform age-appropriate daily activities</li> <li>Provide advice on appropriate therapy to enhance function, independence, coordination, play and fine motor skills.</li> <li>Provide support to the rehabilitation clinicians and team, in and out of Gaza.</li> <li>To offer clear, focused, and accessible rehabilitation advice and interventions through written programmes and other relevant materials, all provided in the local language (translation support available).</li> <li>To use a child-centred, goal/task-focused and functional/play-based approach, alongside ‘SMART’ concepts, and to ensure all advice provided is realistic and achievable.</li> <li>Identify the necessary resources to ensure optimal patient rehabilitation.</li> <li>Collaborate with other healthcare professionals, including doctors, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, and caseworkers</li> <li>Utilise WhatsApp for real-time communication and SharePoint for documentation, as well as other relevant systems and programmes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Maintain accurate patient records and document progress.</li> <li>Stay up to date with best practices and advancements in Occupational Therapy.</li> <li>Contribute to rehabilitation MDT meetings.</li> <li>Contribute to the leadership and coordination of the Rehabilitation team, ensuring effective collaboration and communication among team members. </li> <li>To be proactive in volunteering time and expertise, and to proactively contribute to group discussion and communication, including volunteering for both patient-related and team tasks/responsibilities. </li> <li>Perform any other duties as required from time to time to support the rehabilitation program and CNN’s goals.</li> </ul> Skills and Experience Required <ul> <li>Qualifications: A degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy, and relevant regulatory registration.</li> <li>Preferred Experience: Experience working with children. A wide range of experience across paediatric clinical specialities and age groups. Experience with equipment provision, adaptations or wheelchairs. Experience working as part of a team, including multidisciplinary teams. Experience working with people from different cultures and languages, and experience of using app/web-based communications (such as WhatsApp) and virtual meeting and storage platforms (such as MS Teams and SharePoint)</li> </ul> Knowledge & Skills <ul> <li>Key Knowledge Areas: Paediatric conditions, child development, therapeutic approaches and child safeguarding. Knowledge of techniques and strategies to optimise/improve fine motor skills, independence and access. </li> <li>Key Clinical Skills: Family/child-centred assessment and goal setting, clinical reasoning, intervention techniques (including play-based therapy, developing daily living skills, and sensory integration), and equipment provision and adaptation.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Key Personal Attributes: Excellent communication, empathy, teamworking, collaboration, creativity, problem-solving and flexibility.</li> </ul> Commitment The role requires a minimum commitment of 5 hours per week Application Process To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant skills and experience.

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