Specialist Occupational Therapist

Overview

Ready to take the next step in your OT career? Join our growing, passionate team across three diverse and dynamic schools, each offering a different specialist environment to broaden your skills and experience. We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist ready to grow and thrive in a collaborative, child‑centred environment.

You will be working with children and young people ages 4‑19 with a range of needs, collaborating closely with education and clinical colleagues to support engagement, independence, and meaningful outcomes. You will deliver bespoke Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to pupils who may have experienced developmental trauma, be neurodivergent or have SEMH needs. You will work within the standards provided in the OFG Occupational Therapy Ways of Working, guiding your practice within an education setting while meeting requirements of governing and professional bodies.

You will hold an occupational therapy caseload with full support from your designated clinical supervisor and site lead, contributing to staff training and consultation as required.

Our Clinical Teams help maintain a person‑centred, empowering approach that always puts pupils at the forefront. All settings maintain a strong safeguarding culture, and pupils are heard, respected, and involved in decisions that affect them. We strive for excellence and are one of the leading service providers in the UK.

• Recognised Occupational Therapy degree
• HCPC registered and member of RCOT
• Relevant experience in a previously held job (LD, SEMH, neurodivergence)
• Enhanced knowledge and clinical understanding of OT theory and its practical application
• Experience of multi‑disciplinary working in a range of settings, with some responsibility for service & team performance
• Experience of communicating with, working with families, relatives and carers
• Good communication including relationship, analytical and judgemental skills
• Clear understanding of the relationship between behaviour and communication
• Clear understanding of physical needs, dexterity, coordination and sensory skills for assessment and treatment of client group
• Clear understanding of other developmental needs that may impact on an individual and skills needed for independence
• Up to date knowledge of a range of approaches relating to neurodivergence, learning disability and trauma informed practice
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group
• Good clinical reasoning skills and ability to confidently express rationale
• Able to engage in quality improvement and enhanced service delivery
• Understanding of information governance, confidentiality and record keeping standards
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of the multi‑disciplinary team, as well as support with supervision of staff and students
• Sound knowledge of different assessment tools, intervention programmes and formulation of treatment plans from a range of OT modalities
• Evidence of continuous professional development and consistently undertakes self‑development
• Full driving licence and access to a car
• Ability and willingness to travel on company business
• Flexible approach to working environments, creative problem solver
• Able to work under pressure and to deadlines

• 3+ years practicing as an OT
• Evidence of formal postgraduate study in Sensory Integration and/or developmental trauma and/or sensory attachment

• Full valid UK driving licence and access to own vehicle

Outcomes First Group is the leading provider of world‑class education. Our schools are vital parts of local communities in England, Scotland and Wales, with a renowned reputation for quality and positive outcomes for children and young people. Our Acorn schools meet the social and emotional needs of pupils who have faced trauma or adversity. Our Options Autism schools support autistic pupils to value their uniqueness and access the world in their own way.

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