Occupational Therapist
Contract type: Full time, Permanent
Work pattern: 36 hours per week, All year around (52 weeks)
Salary information: POA, £39,951 - £44,019 per annum (dependent upon experience) + SSA, 1,455 per annum
Start date: ASAP
Annual leave: The successful candidate will be required to take annual leave during school closures only; October Half Term, Winter (Christmas) Break, February Half Term, Spring (Easter) Break, May Half Term, Summer Holidays. Please note that annual leave MUST be taken every year during the whole Winter (Christmas) break as the school premises closes completely during this time. Meadow High Schools term dates can be found on our
website.
Band 6 Occupational Therapist required to work within a multi-disciplinary team at Meadow High School, in Uxbridge.
Seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with experience of working with children and adolescents with special educational needs. The successful candidate will be working within an established Therapy Team, within an SEN secondary school recently OFSTED rated as Good. You will be working with students aged 11-19 years who have a wide variety of conditions including autistic spectrum disorder, global developmental delay, respiratory, neurological and neuromuscular pathologies.
The candidate will need to be able to work well as part of the Therapy Team and wider school team. This post provides many exciting opportunities including assessment, group work, one to one therapy and class-based interventions, working in collaboration with teaching staff, speech and language, physiotherapy and therapy assistants.
The Therapy Team is responsible for integrating clinical intervention across all aspects of the educational curriculum ensuring that pupils are able to readily access and engage in learning, all therapy staff are supported by the Therapy Team Lead.
Meadow High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and other checks as deemed necessary within safer recruiting guidelines.
For more information about Meadow High School please visit the school’s
website.
Closing date: Wednesday 27th November at Noon
Shortlisting: Monday 2nd December
Interviews: Monday 9th December
