Dr. Emanuel Kisanga Function: Occupational Therapist
Responsibilities:
Meet with the Umoja children/youth and other Umoja’s mental health and disabilities benefits regular to provide counselling, treatment and adjust treatment plans as necessary.
Conducting ongoing assessments and evaluations of patient progress.
Helping clients reflect on issues to help them make positive changes.
Liaising with others ( if needed) to help any changes happen.
Making plans on issues that will be covered in sessions.
Keeping all records of previous sessions.
Listening and observing the Umoja children and youth with mental health problems enjoying benefits of being part of Umoja and provide them with therapical solutions.
Attending different conferences and meetings with the Umoja team every time necessary to sharpen the roles and employees’s responsibilities and provide opinions on different issues as presented by the supervisor.
Taking an active class by teaching the Umoja children crafts and life skills as the timetable provides or as instructed in the shedules prepared by the supervisor.
Provide occupational therapy services for the children/youth with children disabilities at the project.
Manage therapeutic activities at the project.
Provide strategic and tactical advice on the therapeutic programs and execution.
Refer children/youth with disabilities to the hospital for medical check-up.
Manage the use of the therapeutic equipment’s at the project.
Prepare evaluations for the adoption children in the project.
Attending different conferences and meetings with the Umoja team every time necessary to sharpen the roles and employees’s responsibilities and provide opinions on different issues as presented by the supervisor.
Taking an active class by teaching the Umoja children crafts and life skills as the timetable provides or as instructed in the shedules prepared by the supervisor.