Occupational Therapist

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**Job Title:

**Occupational Therapist

**Location: **
- Acorn Park School-Norwich

**Salary:

- **£27,000 - £50,000 pro rata, per annum

**Hours:

- ** Monday - Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm/5pm

**Contract:

**Permanent, 52 weeks per annum

**We understand the value of helping our employees to achieve their Continued Professional Development goals and offer a £2,000 training allowance to allow you to complete role specific training tailored to your individual requirements.**

**About the role**

Are you an experienced clinician excited to work during times of transformative change? Are you experienced, or have a keen interest, in working with the challenges associated with neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD), complex and developmental trauma and complexneeds? Do you want to help create a nationally important resource with the substantial backing of one of the leading providers of education and care for young people with SEN? If so, we have the role for you We’re looking for an practitioner to join us atOutcomes First Group as an Occupational Therapist.

Based at Acorn Park School and working across the hub of education and residential services, the post holder will progress the OT specific therapeutic services where the needs of the young people vary in levels of functioning, many with a diagnosis of autismas well as associated needs such as complex and developmental trauma. Needs are complex and require a systemic and formulation-based approach.

You will be a part of a multi-disciplinary well-being and therapeutic services team which is required to meet the needs of the children, young people. The team includes Speech and Language Therapy, Psychotherapists, Occupational Therapy and other appropriateprofessionals and services. Someone with a holistic and integrated approach to care, education and clinical services would be perfect for this role. Who are we looking for? We are looking for a practitioner who has a clear vision of what outstanding therapeuticservices look like. You would need to demonstrate drive, motivation and resilience, and ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams and build consensus.

**Location**:

- Acorn Park School, Norwich NR16 2HU

**Essential Criteria**
- Relevant post-qualification OT experience working as a therapist, including post qualification working with the specific client group or related field.
- Experience of representing occupational therapy in the context of multi-disciplinary post qualification working and multi-agency treatment and care
- Experience of reviewing and developing therapy standards, policies and procedures
- Experience of working in a range of settings e.g. CAHMS, LD
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of other OT’s
- Experience of undertaking appraisal and supervision of less experienced staff
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of working with the specific client group. Children and /or adults (ser-vice specific)

**Why work for us?**

Alongside working with a network of clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development, Outcomes First Group offer an array of flexible benefit options

**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

**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 the children and vulnerable young adults 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 livesof others.**

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