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Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
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Occupational Therapist

Cheltenham

We are looking for a qualified experienced Occupational Therapist who is creative, dynamic and driven to join our friendly, hard-working team at National Star.

Ullenwood

Job details
Salary
FTE £31766 - £39222 DOE

Role type
Full Time, Term-Time Only

Hours of work
43 hours / 39 weeks + CPD

Location
Ullenwood

Contract type
Maternity Cover

Contract
Term-time only

Closing date
29/06/2025

Interview date
TBC

Job description

We are looking for a qualified experienced Occupational Therapist who is creative, dynamic and driven to join our friendly, hard-working team at National Star. The role is based at our stunning Ullenwood campus just outside Cheltenham to cover maternity leave.

Occupational therapy plays a key role in supporting young adult learners who have complex physical and learning disabilities to achieve their goals of independence and progress within their educational outcomes. Most of our students participate in a 3-year education programme, giving us the opportunity to build strong relationships, complete a variety of assessments and deliver intervention programmes that enable our young people to make real progress and gain a real sense of achievement.

Ideally you will have a range of experiences, either working in a similar field or with transferable clinical skills that would enable you to support our learners. Previous experience in paediatrics, neurology, acquired brain injury, wheelchairs and special seating, complex disability, profound and multiple learning disability or sensory integration would be of particular interest to us.

It goes without saying that you will have excellent communication skills, to enable you to liaise effectively with other therapy teams, tutors, residential staff, parents and external agencies.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to experience occupational therapy within a college setting, to experience working as an ‘OT’ you were trained to do. We have excellent facilities and a range of resources across the college to help support our learner’s development with dedicated spaces such as sensory integration spaces, life skill kitchens a range of treatment rooms.

We offer an intensive mandatory training induction package to our new starters and there are opportunities to complete internal/external training relevant to our area of practice.

Whether it’s the big moments some of us take for granted or the small triumphs that others wouldn’t expect, together, we focus on what’s possible for every person we support and recognise that the connections we make today are the memories of tomorrow. It’s their life. You make sure they’re busy living it.

The hours for this role are 43 hours a week, 39 weeks a year, plus 40 CPD hours.