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Join Our Team as a Specialist Occupational Therapist!
Location: Greater ManchesterHours: 22.5 hours/week, 41 weeks/yearContract: PermanentSalary: £41,490 FTE (pro-rated to £22,681 for term-time)
Are you a skilled and passionate Occupational Therapist ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Together Trust is looking for a Specialist OT to join our dynamic Therapy Service, providing support primarily in mainstream schools across Greater Manchester.
As a Specialist OT, youll work autonomously while being part of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including Speech & Language Therapists, Psychologists, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners. Youll provide direct therapy, advice, training, and support to students, staff, and families, ensuring interventions are evidence-based and impactful.
We value your professional developmentyoull have opportunities to pursue areas of clinical interest, attend training, and contribute to service innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage your own caseload of students across schools, working closely with teachers, teams, and families.
Conduct holistic assessments using clinical expertise and observation.
Lead your professional growth, including appraisals, goal setting, and training opportunities.
Supervise and mentor junior colleagues, promoting a positive and inclusive school culture.
Monitor and manage risk while supporting colleagues to build awareness.
Contribute to service development and innovation in clinical practice.
Engage in specialist interest areas and professional networks to enhance practice.
What Were Looking For:
Degree in Occupational Therapy, HCPC-registered, and RCOT member
Experience working with young people, including those with complex needs or Autism Spectrum Conditions
Skilled in assessment, intervention, and delivering training
Ability to work independently while collaborating with a wider team
Passionate about embedding therapy into everyday learning
Experience of working in mainstream school settings.
Benefits
- Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
- Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhancedmaternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
- Proud to be a real living wage employer.
- Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
- Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.
Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.
Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you will be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
Curious about us? Watch our quick career video as an Occupational Therapist:
https://youtu.be/Hb-9Dg-qK-s
Apply now and be part of a team thats making a real difference.
The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).
This role will involve regulated activity.
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.
