Occupational Therapist

Outcomes First Group; Haslingden; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance Pension scheme with opt

Your Wellbeing Matters

80% pay for 100% hours (4DWW)

Vista Flexible Benefits Platform

Cycle to Work

Electric Car Purchase Scheme

Critical illness cover

Job summary

Outcomes First Group is seeking a proactive Occupational Therapist to join Belmont Secondary School in Rawtenstall. You will apply a holistic, therapeutic approach to support students’ daily needs, ensuring safety, comfort and sensory integration throughout the school day.

You will conduct assessments, deliver bespoke interventions, prepare reports and sensory profiles, and share knowledge with staff and external partners.

Qualifications

• OT BSc (Hons) required.
• HCPC registration required.
• RCSLT or RCOT membership required.
• Awareness of sensory integration/sensory regulation approaches.
• Experience with children and/or adults with intellectual disability/autism with additional needs.

Responsibilities

• Undertake standardised and non-standardised OT assessments.
• Deliver bespoke interventions and prepare sensory profiles.
• Write reports and other relevant documentation.
• Provide information and training to staff, commissioners and other agencies.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support students.

Skills

Awareness of sensory integration

Collaborative work with partners

Driving licence

Education

Occupational Therapy BSc (Hons)

HCPC registration

RCSLT/RCOT membership

Job description

Job Title

Occupational Therapist

Location

Belmont Secondary School, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, BB4 6RX

Salary

Up to £53,200 FTE, DOE

Hours

37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm

Contract

Permanent, Term Time only

Essential

Full UK Driving Licence and access to own vehicle required

About the role

Belmont Secondary School are looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our expanding team. In the role you would be expected to implement a holistic, therapeutic and dynamic approach to helping our students in their daily lives - ensuring they are safe, comfortable and their occupational and sensory needs supported throughout their day. Undertaking all aspects of Occupational Therapy clinical duties, you would be expected to carry out standardised and non-standardised assessments, bespoke interventions, and prepare relevant documentation - including writing reports and sensory profiles. In addition, you will provide information and training to staff, commissioners andother agencies as required.

You would be working within our well-established and supportive multi-disciplinary therapy team to help create an environment where our students can flourish, learn and develop. The team includes Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and therapy assistants.

Someone with a rounded and integrated approach to care, education and clinical services would be perfect for this role.

About the Group

Every student is unique. Education should be personalised around them.

For more than 20 years, OFG Education has developed a deep understandingof how education designed around the individual can improve outcomes. Weknow that when students are understood - their strengths, interests, ambitions,starting points and needs - we can create personalised pathways that help themachieve and thrive.

Across our specialist schools, independent schools, online provision and supportservices, every student benefits from education shaped around who they areand what they can become. We combine educational and clinical expertise withresearch, evidence-informed practice, innovation and technology, underpinnedby consistently high standards.

From deep specialist support to exceptional academic challenge, we areambitious for every student, helping them achieve academically, discover theirstrengths and develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and attitudes they needfor learning, work and life.

Every student. Every pathway. Every future

Our divisional brands include Acorn Education and Options Autism.

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Essential Criteria

• Occupational Therapy BSc (Hons)
• Registered with the HCPC and RCSLT or RCOT
• Awareness of Sensory Integration or Sensory regulation approaches
• Experience of working with children and/or adults who have an intellectual disability and/or autism with additional needs (e.g. complex trauma, mental health needs, behaviours of concern)
• Ability to work collaboratively with a range of key partners
• Able to work sensitively with people and resolve conflict effectively
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to own vehicle required

What’s in it for you?

You will be working with an ambitious and driven service that’s really going places, supported by an exceptional team of likeminded individuals who are keen to learn from you. This is an opportunity to enrich the lives of the people we support and make a positive difference, in a role where you have autonomy.

We offer a friendly and inclusive working environment where our people are heard, respected and hugely valued. We want our employees to come to work with energy, determination and most importantly we want them to be happy in their work. We are well aware that it is our highly skilled teams that make Outcomes First Group the success it is, and we want this to continue. This is why we provide a range of benefits designed to support you, not just in your work life but also on a personal level too. We want you to be the best you can be and offer genuine opportunities for career development and progression.

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
• *You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit
• And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of our people in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

At Outcomes First Group we are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS