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Occupational Therapy Team Lead – Inscape House School
Base pay range
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours/week, 41 weeks/year Term time
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £43,753 (pro‑rated from £48,022)
Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive in a collaborative, child‑centred environment where your leadership can make a real difference?
About The Role
We’re looking for a dynamic Occupational Therapy Team Lead to join our specialist ASC school, part of the Together Trust. You’ll lead a skilled OT team, shape service development, and deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based therapy to children and young people aged 5‑19 with Autism Spectrum Conditions.
This is a unique opportunity to combine clinical practice with leadership, working closely with families, carers, and a multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic support for our students.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Leading and developing the OT service across Inscape House and outreach settings.
* Managing your own clinical caseload and supervising team members.
* Delivering specialist assessments and interventions.
* Providing consultancy and training to staff, families, and external partners.
* Driving service improvement through evidence‑based practice and innovation.
* Contributing to policy, procedures, and service development within the school and Trust.
About You
* A degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
* Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with a current practising certificate.
* Experience working with children and young adults, ideally with Autism Spectrum Conditions.
* Proven leadership skills and experience managing a team.
* Strong knowledge of OT assessment tools and evidence‑based interventions.
* Excellent communication and collaborative skills.
Desirable
* Postgraduate study in paediatric OT or Sensory Integration.
* Experience in school settings, supporting EHCPs, or delivering training.
* Ability to work across multiple sites and provide outreach services.
Benefits
* Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 × basic salary death in service benefit.
* Occupational sick pay and family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity, 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.
* Real living wage employer.
* Refer‑a‑friend scheme.
* Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
* Long‑service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
* Promotion of wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders and free weekly yoga sessions (in person or online).
* Access to Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in 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’ll 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.
If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Please use examples in your application to demonstrate how your skills and experience align with the role.
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.
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