Occupational Therapist - Special Educational Needs in Mitcham

£43,424 - £51,209 (includes paid school holidays) + excellent benefits.

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

This role is based at Lavender Lodge School, 3 days per week. Lavender Lodge School resides within an 18th Century building in the heart of Mitcham. Our pupils come from many different boroughs to attend our school and are lucky to experience ‘a life changing love of learning.’ We are proud of our pupils and our dedicated team, and pupils leave us with a sense of achievement. We were recently recognised as Good by Ofsted.

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 Occupational Therapists work collaboratively within our schools and children’s homes, ensuring 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.

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: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays.
• Career Growth: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development.
• Flexible Benefits: Meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance.
• Wellbeing: A host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance.
• Medical Cover: So you can claim back the cost of things like an optician or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts.
• Beautiful Working Environments: With the very best facilities.
• Recommend a Friend Scheme: That offers a £2,000 bonus every time.

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.

Requirements:

• Be a qualified Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC.
• Have experience and be skilled in delivering therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex needs.
• Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences.
• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people.

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.