Occupational Therapist

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: England
Salary: $42
Company Name: Witherslack Group

Company Overview

We are the UK’s leading education provider for children and young people with special educational needs, consistently achieving sector-leading Ofsted ratings. Our commitment to placement stability, high attendance, and outstanding student outcomes sets us apart.

At the heart of our success is our unique, integrated “Team Around the Child” model, which seamlessly combines education, care, and therapeutic support. By fostering inspirational learning environments, we empower children and young people to flourish both inside and outside the classroom.

Additionally, our sector-leading Futures Programme enhances opportunities, personal development, and future contributions to society, ensuring that every young person reaches their full potential.

Opening in April 2025, Cheshire Hall School is a purpose built, brand new, state of the art school. The school provides education for up to 120 pupils aged 5-19 and caters to children with a wide range of needs including autism and social, emotional and mental health needs. This new exciting opportunity serves Sandbach and the wider communities, you are at the heart of its development. Our aim is to ensure that every pupil has an outstanding educational experience with individual pupil progress and care at the heart of what is offered.

Our clinicians are a crucial part of the most joined-up model in SEND. Across all of our specialist schools and children’s homes, we provide unrivalled levels of clinical support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision. Our young people present with a complexity of need including developmental trauma, neuro-developmental conditions and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and, based on clinical assessment and formulation, offer individualised interventions and engagement to our young people.

Our Occupational Therapists work collaboratively within our schools and children’s homes, this ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educational and residential teams around our children.

What We Do For You

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

  • Training: A full induction and on the job training
  • Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays
  • Clinical Development: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development
  • Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
  • Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
  • Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts

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