Occupational Therapist – Specialist SEMH School
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Posted on:
15 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
A leading independent specialist school supporting pupils with ACEs SEMH needs and associated SEND is seeking a dedicated and skilled Occupational Therapist to join their therapy team.
This is an opportunity to make significant meaningful impact within a school that places relationships traumainformed practice and therapeutic support at the centre of everything it does.
The Role
You will be the onsite therapeutic lead for Occupational Therapy delivering 1:1 sessions group interventions classroom support and environmental adaptations. Working collaboratively with teachers families and external professionals including CAMHS youll ensure pupils receive highquality ethical and holistic OT provision.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Building strong relational connections with pupils with ACEs trauma backgrounds SEMH needs and complex SEND
- Planning and delivering structured OT interventions alongside flexible needitnow support
- Providing inclass OT guidance modelling traumainformed and sensoryinformed strategies
- Setting up and maintaining a calm purposeful OT/therapy space
- Completing functional assessments sensory assessments OT reports and progress reviews
- Tracking SEMH and functional development using the schools assessment framework
- Liaising with external professionals including CAMHS and social care
- Delivering OTfocused training and refreshers for staff
- Supporting reintegration transitions and key developmental milestones
- Building supportive positive relationships with families including regular communication
- Upholding safeguarding confidentiality and all relevant policies
About You
- Degreelevel fully qualified Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration (essential)
- Experience working with children or young people in SEMH/SEND or challenging settings
- Strong communication and organisational skills
- Excellent understanding of child development sensory needs trauma attachment and mental health
- Confident working independently while collaborating fully as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Emotionally resilient reflective and passionate about helping young people thrive
Desirable: Additional training in sensory integration trauma SEND or child mental health.
Why This School
- Strong embedded relationships-first therapeutic model
- Multidisciplinary supportive values-led environment
- Real scope to influence wholeschool OT practice
- Ongoing CPD reflective practice and professional development
- A role where your OT expertise truly transforms outcomes
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
BH - 197131
GH - 34293
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Body Mechanics
- Early Intervention
- Acute Care
- Communication skills
- HIPAA
- Autism Experience
- Computer Literacy
- Pediatrics Experience
- Home Care
- Heavy Lifting
- Patient Service Experience
- Medicare
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