Occupational Therapist

Cornwall Council; Truro; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Wellbeing programme

Employee discounts

Job summary

Cornwall Council is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the SEND Support Service. You will assess children and young people, focusing on sensory processing needs, and produce accessible written reports within statutory timeframes.

You will work with our OT colleagues, schools and other SEND teams, with a strong emphasis on training and professional development, under supervision of a qualified OT. This role offers flexible working options and a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• HCPC registration required.
• Experience assessing children and young people with sensory processing challenges.
• Ability to write accessible written reports and work within statutory timescales.

Responsibilities

• Assess needs of children/young people related to sensory processing.
• Prepare high quality written reports, including statutory requirements.
• Collaborate with OT, schools/settings and SEND teams; assist in training.

Skills

HCPC registration

Occupational Therapy

Job description

Job Description

The Service & Team

The SEND Support Service works with children and young people with a wide range of needs from 0-25 years and they are at the heart of everything we do. We are a wide range of professionals including teachers, advisors, speech and language therapists and an occupational therapist. We are excited to offer this new role to work with us and our colleagues in the Statutory SEN team and EOTAS team.

The Role

This role will involve some work with children and young people assessing their needs which are usually around sensory processing challenges. You will be expected to write accessible written reports and be involved in statutory SEND processes. The role will involve close work with our current OT to deliver training and work with schools/settings as well as other colleagues in the SEND Support Services. We place a high importance on training and development. Supervision will be carried out by a suitably qualified OT

Working Pattern

37 hours per week

What You'll Need To Succeed

You will be an enthusiastic, experienced Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration. You will be able to assess the needs of children and young people (usually around their sensory processing challenges) and provide high quality written reports sometimes within statutory timeframes. You will enjoy working independently and with colleagues in different teams.

What You'll Get In Return

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

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For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Melinda Leishman [e-mail]

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.