Occupational Therapist - SEMH

Salary/Rate:Temp to Perm

Job type:Contract

Town/City:Harlow

County:Essex

Type of Role:Occupational Therapist

Job ref:5404

Post Date:07.07.25

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Meet Our Recruiter

Harry Owen

Managing Consultant

0203 011 4848

harry@psinclusion.co.uk

About the Role

Role: Occupational Therapist (OT)

Location: Central London

Start date: ASAP

Contract details: Band 6/7, Flexible options: Term time only full time/part time

Salary up to £25,000 - £50,000 (based on f/t 52 weeks)

Are you an experienced band 6/7 Occupational Therapist looking to become part of a Inclusion Service multidisciplinary therapy team?

Do you have a strong paediatric Occupational Therapy background and passion for paediatric support?

Are you skilled at delivery of Occupational Therapy training, modelling, programs and equipment/adaptation recommendations?

I am looking for a band 6/7 Occupational Therapist to become part of a multidisciplinary therapy team as part of an Inclusion Service. The opportunities here are flexible and could suit a permanent F/T Occupational Therapist, permanent term time only Occupational Therapist, or someone looking for more flexible locum work.

About the role of Occupational Therapist (OT)

School based occupational therapists focus on addressing educational needs to promote students' participation and performance in school. This may involve focusing on sensory and functional needs, as well as social skills. As an Occupational Therapist based in SEND school settings, you will look at the whole child, tackling individual tasks, helping students find ways to do the things they need and want to do. You will liaise closely with the multi-disciplinary clinical team to provide an intensive treatment service. You will engage the children and young people within the school in innovative, helpful therapeutic and meaningful activity, supporting them in learning and reaching their full potential.

Duties for this Occupational Therapist (OT) will include:

Provide a high quality, school-based Occupational Therapy Service to children, their families, care givers, and schools
Assessment, strategies, training, modelling, programs and equipment/adaptation recommendations
Consult school staff such as Senior Leaders, SENCOs, and class teachers to support the integration of OT principles into the curriculum
Identify training needs amongst school staff and parents
Contribute to Annual Reviews as and when required
Measuring and evaluating outcomes
Contribute to the creation of service development outcomes
Creating resources
Providing strategies through coaching

Requirements for this Occupational Therapist (OT)

To work as a school based Occupational Therapist, you will need to hold a recognised Occupational Therapy degree, be HCPC registered and a registered member of the British College of Occupational Therapists. You will need solid paediatric OT experience, ideally working with a broad range of SEND to include Autism
Imaginative: It’s certainly worth keeping in mind that students may become discouraged during their treatment session so it’s important to remain imaginative to create a welcoming and accepting environment
Collaborative: It’s important to remain open to collaboration with your students’ team
Versatile: You will be based across a case load of schools and provisions for SEND, age ranges from primary to secondary with a broad spectrum of additional needs
Patient: Students may react to their OT sessions differently or could even feel defeated at times. In any case, remaining patient to keep them assured of their progress and maintaining a positive attitude will help to encourage the student during their sessions
Communicative: Keeping open communication with your students will help to offer them clarity and comfort around their progress, ultimately leading to a sense of encouragement. As well as communicating with students, OTs should possess strong communication skills in order to adequately explain updates to the students’ team members such as other therapists, teachers, and parents
This is a band 6/7 OT role and will require experience due to the autonomy of the role

About the Inclusion Service

Working for this inclusion service comes with great opportunity for CPD and access to very specific training from well known experts in the field. Working with a range of schools means that you will acquire skills and experience across a wide range of SEND including but not limited to PD, LD, SEMH, SLCN, MLD, PMLD, Autism, and Access Needs. The work they do is essential and you will have an opportunity to be a part of something very special!

Interested in hearing more?

If you want to hear more about our Occupational Therapy opportunities, please get in touch! You can apply by response to this advert, uploading your CV to our website, or emailing your CV to harry@psinclusion.co.uk

If you are not contacted within 5 working days, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful for this role. However, we will keep your CV and you are welcome to contact us to discuss your SEND career development.

Parker Smith Inclusion is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We will help you with this.

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