Occupational Therapist

Job Description

£35,617 - £43,027 (includes paid school holidays)
+ excellent benefits

Get out what you put in

Our clinicians are a crucial part of the most joined-up model in SEND. Across all of our specialist schools and children’s homes, we provide unrivalled levels of clinical support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision. Our young people present with a complexity of need including developmental trauma, neuro-developmental conditions and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and, based on clinical assessment and formulation, offer individualised interventions and engagement to our young people.

Our Occupational Therapists work collaboratively within our schools and children’s homes, this ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educational and residential teams around our children.

What we do for you
We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

Training : A full induction and on the job training
Holiday : You’ll work hard with us, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays
Clinical Development : If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development
Flexible benefits : meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance
Wellbeing:

a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
Medical cover

so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of

high-street discounts
Beautiful working environments

with the very best facilities
A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 bonus every time

Bring your whole self to work
Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we’re looking for will:

Be a qualified Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC
Have experience and be skilled in delivering therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex needs
Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences
Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.
Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative
Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within our living and learning environments you will be offered the support, resource and platform for you to do great things. You’ll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 120+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.