Senior Occupational Therapist

Witherslack Group; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational provider in Sutton Coldfield seeks a qualified Occupational Therapist to join a multi-disciplinary team. The role focuses on supporting young people with complex needs in a specialist school environment. You will provide therapeutic interventions, consult with staff, and receive ongoing professional development. The position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including full school holidays. The ideal candidate will have significant experience and be HCPC registered.

Benefits

Full school holidays including bank holidays

Clinical development programs

Wellness tools and advice

Medical cover for appointments

Refer a friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting teams around children with complex needs.
• Strong background in team supervision and sector experience.
• Ability to manage and lead educational and residential staff.

Responsibilities

• Support therapeutic living and learning environments.
• Provide clinical assessment and tailored interventions.
• Consult and train teams in therapeutic practices.

Skills

Specialist skills in delivering therapeutic interventions

Experience supporting teams around young people

Organisational skills

Ability to lead and train teams

Full driving license

Education

Qualified Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC

Job description

£51,209 - £59,135 (including paid school holidays) + excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things.

Get out what you put in

This role is based at Greenholm School.

Having joined Witherslack Group in 2022, Greenholm School is an independent, specialist day school providing high quality education based in South West London. The school meets the needs of pupils with autism and additional needs such as ADHD, speech and language difficulties, sensory issues and associated behavioural difficulties – and was recently rated Good by Ofsted.

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 Senior 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: Full school holidays including bank holidays
• Clinical Development: A leading programme of clinical learning and development
• Flexible benefits: You can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
• Wellbeing: A host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover: Claim back the cost of optician or dentist appointments and a host of high‑street discounts
• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here
• Refer a friend scheme: £1,000 bonus each 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 specialist skills in delivering therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex needs
• Have experience supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences
• Be a confident, engaging, effective model, guide, leader and trainer
• Be highly organised and ready to take initiative
• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people
• Be a member of a multi‑disciplinary team, receiving regular supervision and supported in CPD
• Have extensive sector experience and a background in team supervision
• Be a car driver (there’s some travel involved)

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 220+ strong team of multi‑disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose‑led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification, please click here.