Nq Occupational Therapist 38wks

**We are looking for newly qualified Occupational Therapists.**

**Be amazing, be inspired, be you.**

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our staff. You deserve to have the career you want, in an environment that allows you to be yourself. As a member of our team, you’ll receive a sector-leading salary, extensivebenefits, training, and a clear career pathway ahead of you.

If you want to join the UK’s leading provider of specialist education and care, working passionately to bring the best possible outcomes for young people, you’re in the right place.

**Be the Occupational Therapist, be the guide.**

Our Clinical Team supports children and young people across our school and home environments. As a member of the team, you’ll play a vital part in our work and our outcomes for young people. It’s a highly rewarding role where your skills can make a hugedifference - as you help us create the type of futures that every child deserves.

The contentment young people feel when you help them to work through their development traumas, neurodevelopment disorders and other complex needs and really start to participate in daily lifeThere really is nothing like it. To you, one single breakthroughis worth a thousand thank you’s.

It’s exactly that kind of selfless, altruistic attitude that makes us so excited to talk to you, here at Witherslack Group, as we grow our therapeutic team.

**Be the Occupational Therapist you always wanted to be**

As you well know, this is a profession that’s all about the long-term. You know what it’s like when young people are passed from pillar to post - you just don’t see the same kind of successes that you see when they’re given access to strategic, consistentand joined-up therapy. Which is exactly why we’ve built our whole approach around the latter and have a multidisciplinary team who’ll work alongside you, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Creative & Talking Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists.

It’s not just the fact that you’ll have access to nearly 100 different clinicians offering you peer support, development and shared best practice, plus a Clinical Director providing strategic leadership & clinical governance. It’s also that we’re a nationwidenetwork of sector-leading schools and children’s homes enabling us to develop a holistic, unique approach to each child’s development.

**Be More**
- Be part of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to the integrated development of each and every young person that lives and learns with us
- Promote and enable Reflective Practice in your informal working relationships as well as when you chair and facilitate meetings
- Work as part of an MDT team consisting of OT’s, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Talking and Creative Therapists, care and school staff
- A commitment to your continued professional development with a range of in house and external training
- Opportunities to attend national special interest groups on topics such as Sensory Integration, autism, developmental trauma,
- Opportunities to work with ADHD advanced practitioners through our links with the ADHD Foundation
- A buddy system where you will be paired with a member of the onsite team for informal guidance and support
- Regular Internal team around the child (ITAC) meetings which ensure that young people have access to cohesive services and all the relevant practitioners concerned with an individual young person meet regularly. This ensures the services delivered are integrated,prioritised, coherent and achieve their intended outcomes.

**Working with Us**

The Occupational Therapists with us bring far more than just the essentials. Sure, registration with HCPC and some experience are all vital (as is being a car driver, as there’s some travel involved). The difference with Witherslack Group teams, though,is that you can sense the commitment - that far-sighted view of potential outcomes that drives us toward achieving them. We need that. It’s what makes us who we are as an organisation.

**Be Rewarded**

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we want to reward you with a salary and benefits package that’s among the best in our sector. You’ll receive a competitive salary, Pension Scheme matched up to 5% or a range of flexiblepension options to suit personal circumstances(where applicable) and comprehensive induction and ongoing training, as well as extensive Group staff benefits such as Medicash Health Plan/Employee Assistance and Cycle to Work Scheme. Witherslack Group conductsDBS Enhanced checks and covers the costs for all new employees.

For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.