Specialist Occupational Therapist

Permanent contract, Full time (35 hours per week), 42 weeks per year (term time plus up to 3 weeks of work during school closure periods) with 10 weeks paid holiday.

Salary £34,347 - £37,821

Meath, a Speech and Language UK School, Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0LF

(www.meathschool.org.uk) based in Ottershaw, Surrey is a day and residential

non-maintained primary special school for up to 75 pupils aged 4 to 11 years,

where Speech and/or Language Disorder and associated difficulties is the

primary need, including children with high functioning Autism. Our most recent

Ofsted report (2019) is highly positive about the work of the school and the

progress which our children make. Pupils like this friendly, happy school. They

know that staff care deeply about them and want them ‘to be the best that they

can be’.

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our dedicated Paediatric Occupational Therapy team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary setting where cohesive collaboration is encouraged and celebrated.

You will be school-based and will work autonomously to assess for, plan, and deliver individualised intervention programmes. This will include working with children individually or in small groups, in specialist treatment areas and across functional contexts within the school environment to enable their learning and meaningful engagement in school-based tasks.

Your role will encompass assessment of children with diverse presentations to identify sensory, physical, social, and environmental barriers that impede function. With support from a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will plan and deliver individualised intervention programmes to enable learning and meaningful engagement in school-based tasks, working with children individually or in small groups in specialist treatment areas and within classroom-based sessions. Duties will include advising and collaborating with parents/carers and the multi-disciplinary team, comprising of Speech & Language Therapists, educational staff and Physiotherapists.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Liane

Hall Lead Occupational Therapist on 01932 872302 or email

liane.hall@meathschool.org.uk . To find out more about Meath School and Speech

and Language UK please visit www.meathschool.org.uk and www.speechandlanguageuk.org.uk

We will shortlist and interview whilst this vacancy remains live, so we encourage you to apply early.

Closing date:      9am Monday, 5th June 2023

Interviews:         TBC