The Children’s Occupational Therapy Service provides a high quality, needs led service to children and young people with a view to maximise their participation and independence in daily life.

We are a specialist service, who work with children and young people aged from birth to 18 years, who are unable to complete the daily occupations they need to, want to or are required to do.

Daily life is made up of many occupations such as 
•    Self-care tasks such as feeding, dressing, bathing and brushing teeth.
•    Productivity tasks such as handwriting, using scissors and using a ruler.
•    Leisure activities such as riding a bike and enabling children and young people to be able to play with toys.  
 
We work with the child or young person and their family to identify meaningful goals. We complete a range of assessments to identify any barriers to a child’s occupational performance and use graded meaningful activities to maintain, develop and maximise their independence in their daily occupations.

Contact us

South Tyneside 

Children’s Occupational Therapy Department: 0191 402 8067

Monday- Friday 8:30 - 4:30 pm

Sunderland

Children’s Occupational Therapy Department: 0191 569 9123

Monday- Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm

Finding us

South Tyneside

Children’s Occupational Therapy
Palmer Community Hospital
Wear Street
Jarrow
NE32 3UX

Sunderland

Children’s Occupational Therapy
Children’s Centre
Durham Road
Sunderland 
SR3 4AD

Key contacts
  • South Tyneside Children’s Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Judith Colborn
  • Sunderland Children’s Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Nichola Sykes
     

Referrals

South Tyneside

Children can be referred by any health professional. Referrals are accepted for children and young people living in South Tyneside, with a South Tyneside GP.

Sunderland

Children can be referred to Children’s Occupational Therapy via their Sunderland Royal Hospital Paediatric Consultant on V6. Referrals are accepted for children living in Sunderland with a Sunderland GP.

Please note equipment loans for children in Sunderland are accessed via Sunderland City Council via link below.

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