About this service
The Paediatric Occupational Therapy Service provides universal, targeted and specialist intervention for babies, children, and young people from birth to 16 years of age.
The service aims to assist children to achieve their maximum physical and functional potential by working alongside children, their families, and members of the multidisciplinary teams. Interventions may focus on aspects of function such as: gross motor, fine motor and daily living skills.
Paediatric Occupational Therapy Advice Line: 07584 386880
- Open from 12pm to 2pm every Wednesday during term time.
- Available to parents/carers, health professionals and education professionals.
- An opportunity to speak directly with an Occupational Therapist for advice.
Children will be seen in a location suitable for their needs and the intervention required. This includes input into special schools.
Our Occupational therapists work within the following locations:
Therapy Centre, Hebden Green School, Winsford. 01606 704640
Weaverham Clinic, Northwich.
The Willows, Ashfields Primary Care Centre, Sandbach.
Eagle Bridge Health & Wellbeing Centre, Crewe.
We also operate within special school environments at:
Hebden Green School, Winsford.
Russett School, Weaverham, Northwich.
Springfield School, Crewe.
Essential Criteria for Acceptance of Referral:
- Referrals are only accepted from school SENDCOs and health professionals, including health visitors.
- Children and young people aged 0-16 (end of Year 11), who are registered with a GP within the South and Vale Royal clinical commissioning areas, are eligible for referral.
Referrals for the Functional Skills and Motor Co-ordination service.
Children with difficulties relating to functional skills and motor co-ordination will benefit from our tiered service model. Please access the universal information on our website prior to considering a referral to the targeted tier of our service. See Functional Skills and Motor Co-ordination Service details below.
Referrals for Specialist Postural Assessments and/or Rehabilitation.
Children do not need to access our universal tier prior to referral. Referrals can be made by a healthcare professional (not SENDCo) via letter or healthcare report.
Referrals for children who attend Hebden Green School, The Russett School or Springfield School.
Please initially liaise with the allocated Occupational Therapist prior to completing a referral form.
Referrals for Transfer of Care from other Community Therapy Teams or Discharging Hospital Therapy Teams.
Please contact the Therapy Centre on 01606 704640 to discuss. A referral form can be emailed upon request.
Functional Difficulties Relating to Sensory Processing.
Our service does not accept referrals specifically for functional difficulties relating to sensory processing. For specialist advice relating to sensory processing, please contact the Sensory Processing Occupational Therapy Support Service (SPOTSS).
SPOTSS leaflet attached (right click & select 'open in new tab' to keep browsing this page).
Functional Skill and Motor Co-ordination Service.
The CCICP Paediatric Therapy Service can support children and young people to develop skills in everyday activities. This may include:
- Washing, dressing and other self-care skills.
- Independence using cutlery.
- Fine motor skills e.g. grasp, hand manipulation skills and strength.
- Gross motor skills e.g., balance, ball skills and riding a bike.
- Motor aspects of handwriting (not related to learning needs).
You can see further details of our Occupational Therapy Service in this leaflet (right click & select 'open in new tab' to keep browsing this page).
The Paediatric Occupational Therapy Functional Skills and Motor Co-ordination Service is a tiered service. Children with difficulties relating to functional skills and motor co-ordination will benefit from using the universal strategies and advice as detailed below.
Universal Tier
Please use the strategies and activities (detailed in the ‘Universal Information' section below).
Please complete this for a minimum of 12 weeks prior to considering whether a referral is required.
Please use this diary sheet (this will automatically download as a Word document when clicked) to record the activities and strategies used to address the child’s/young person’s needs.
Please consider who is completing the diary sheet. It may be that Parents/Carers and/or Education Staff are best placed to complete this record, depending on the area of functional difficulty.
See diagram below for guidance or contact the Advice Line detailed in the ‘About This Service’ tab above.
Targeted Tier
Referrals for targeted input can be made via this online referral form (right click & select 'open in new tab' to keep browsing this page) with full parental/carer consent.
Alongside this online referral, a completed diary sheet must be sent via email to ccicp.
Please consider that children/young people should only be referred if they are able to engage in the assessment process.
The targeted tier involves a parent/carer telephone appointment.
Incomplete/insufficient referrals, including those sent without accompanying diary sheet, will not be accepted and will be returned to the referrer.
You can also email other supporting information, such as clinic letters, EHCPs, hospital therapy discharge care plans, and/or other professional reports (with parental/carer consent). Please ensure that the child’s/young person’s full name and date of birth are on each document.
Specialist Tier
Following completion of the universal and targeted tiers, the Occupational Therapist may offer specialist tier intervention. This is likely to involve a clinic assessment appointment and could include standardised assessments, such as motor skills and handwriting assessments, as clinically indicated.
The Paediatric Occupational Therpay advice line is available to parents/carers, health professionals and educational professionals.
This is an opportunity to speak directly to an Occupational Therapist for discussions around the referral process and/or further direction in relation to the universal tier of the Functional Skill and Motor Co-ordiation Difficulties Service.
The advice line 07584 386880, is open from 12.00pm till 2.00pm every Wednesday during Term Time.
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All referrals that meet service criteria will be offered an appointment and should be seen within 18 weeks. Referrals triaged as urgent will be seen within 10 working days from point of triage.
