Brent
North West London
£22.41 - £27 Hourly Rate
Locum Occupational Therapist – Band 6
North West London | Full time, term time only | ASAP Start | £22.41 - £27 per hour equivalent to £31,000 – £38,000
Bring your clinical skillset into a specialist school community where practical, purposeful therapy changes how young people participate, learn and navigate their world. This role offers the chance to shape daily experiences for learners with diverse sensory, physical and functional needs, ensuring they can access education with confidence and dignity.
You’re a reflective, well-organised practitioner with strong paediatric experience, ideally including autism, neurodevelopmental needs, sensory regulation and functional skill development. You are HCPC-registered at Band 6, or a Band 5 developing confidently toward Band 6. You’re comfortable completing holistic assessments, formulating clear intervention plans and delivering approaches that support meaningful participation. You have experience supervising others, contributing to service development and thinking creatively about how environments, routines and systems can better enable young people to thrive. You value neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based practice and enjoy working collaboratively to embed supportive strategies across the whole school.
What the role involves:
• Supporting secondary-aged pupils with varied occupational needs, including those with autism, motor skill challenges, sensory processing differences and complex profiles.
• Working as part of a committed OT and therapy team that values shared thinking, professional dialogue and practical support.
• Taking on an established caseload with full handover, giving you clarity, continuity and space to build on existing effective practice.
• Delivering targeted intervention, contributing to EHCP outcomes and modelling strategies that help staff adapt environments, tasks and routines to promote independence and engagement.
The environment:
• A specialist setting supporting young people with significant learning needs, autism, medical needs and a wide range of sensory and functional differences.
• A community that focuses on inclusion, individual pathways and equipping students with skills for independence, adulthood and meaningful participation.
• A collaborative multidisciplinary culture where therapy, teaching and pastoral colleagues work closely to meet each learner’s holistic profile.
• An ethos grounded in understanding, respect and celebrating neurodiversity, ensuring pupils feel safe, valued and supported.
• A structured therapy framework offering consistency, supervision, professional guidance and opportunities to develop specialist practice.
Requirements:
• Band 6 HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist, or an experienced Band 5 progressing confidently toward Band 6
• Strong paediatric experience, ideally including autism, sensory integration, motor development and complex needs
• Confident in assessment, clinical reasoning, intervention planning and measuring outcomes
• Experience supervising others and supporting service design or improvement
• Ability to think at a whole-school and systems level: pathways, quality, outcomes and the family experience
• Commitment to neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based practice
If you’re looking for a Band 6 OT role where your expertise directly supports independence, regulation and participation across a specialist school community, please apply or contact daniel@psinclusion.co.uk.