Senior Occupational Therapist Outer London Only

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

Our children and 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,extensive benefits, 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.**

Join our embedded Clinical Services Team and help us to help the children and young people we live and learn with to realise a future filled with aspiration and achievement and have uniquely outstanding outcomes.

Across all of our specialist schools, children’s homes and integrated provisions, we provide unrivalled levels of therapeutic support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision to children and young people presenting with a complexity of needincluding neurodiversity, developmental trauma and special educational needs.

Our clinicians are a crucial part of what we offer. With their expertise, we can meet children and young people’s emotional and underlying needs and together go beyond and help create amazing stories of success.

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within one of our schools you will be offered the support, resource and commitment for you to do great things. You’ll benefit from both Clinical and linemanagement supervision, CPD opportunities including a development programme and access to a 120+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.

**The role**

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational colleagues to provide therapeutic learning environments and based on clinical assessment and formulation offer individualised interventions to our children and young people.

Our clinicians work collaboratively within our schools. This ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educationalteams around our children.

There’s no doubt that you’ll face some challenges. You must therefore be a resilient, reflective, creative and a flexible practitioner. In return, you will find this to be a highly rewarding role, where you will be working to make a real difference to achild or young person’s life.

**Be the Senior Occupational Therapist you always wanted to be**
- A qualified Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC.
- A specialist with proven skills and experience to engage and deliver therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs.
- Experience of supporting the team around a child or young person to provide clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences.
- A confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.
- A member of a multi-disciplinary team, receiving regular supervision and supported in your CPD.
- A highly organised professional ready to take the initiative.

**Working with us**

The Senior Occupational Therapists with us bring far more than just the essentials; registration with HCPC, lengthy sector experience and a background in team supervision are all vital (as is being a car driver, as there’s some travel involved). The differencewith 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.

You will be comfortable delivering training to parents and other professionals. Experience of working with those with autism, mental health issues and social and emotional difficulties will stand you in good stead for a role filled with possibility - notjust for our young people, but for you too, as you develop your career.

**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 flexible pension options to suit personal circumstances(where applicable)
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing training
- Extensive Group staff benefits such as Medicash Health Plan/Employee Assistance and Cycle to Work Scheme

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