Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking to make a real difference? Join Seashell Trusts dynamic Health Team in Cheadle Hulme, supporting children and young people with complex physical, learning, and sensory needs. This part-time, term-time role offers the chance to work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment where your expertise will help shape meaningful, person-centred interventions. With access to cutting-edge facilities and a supportive team, youll be empowered to grow professionally while making a lasting impact. If youre proactive, reflective, and committed to positive outcomes, wed love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver tailored occupational therapy to children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, focusing on independence, life skills, and daily living.
* Work closely with colleagues across Health, Education, and Care to contribute to early assessment and intervention, support service development, and provide clinical supervision under the guidance of the OT Lead.
* Build strong therapeutic relationships with students and families to ensure continuity and quality throughout their journey at Seashell.
About us
Seashell Trust is a national charity based in Cheadle Hulme, supporting children and young people with complex needs through education, care, therapy, and outreach. Our inclusive, person-centred approach is delivered by a skilled multi-disciplinary team in a welcoming and collaborative environment. We offer a comprehensive induction, generous annual leave, access to on-site fitness facilities, health and wellbeing support, and professional development opportunities. Join us during an exciting period of growth, including a new college build and campus transformation.
Job responsibilities
* Provide specialist in-depth assessment and intervention plans for children and young people with a variety of complex needs including physical and learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, communication difficulties, autism and challenging behaviour.
* Use the principles and practices of occupational therapy to assess and treat complex conditions to optimise the client’s ability and promote independent function in daily life.
* Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload, organising work in line with identified service and clinical priorities, and managing your own time.
* Provide an occupational perspective within the MDT and contribute to multidisciplinary team work.
* Contribute to the MDT assessment process through initial assessment, informing long-term goal setting, ongoing formative assessment, progress reviews, strategies and levels of support for students.
* Plan and implement OT interventions, monitor and evaluate outcomes for each student to ensure clinical effectiveness.
* Adhere to the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
* Liaise with other health, education and local authorities to provide continuity of transferrable skills and support for students during their course programme and at transition from the Trust.
* Assessment, recording and reporting: provide clear written therapy programmes and specialist reports in a timely manner; maintain up-to-date clinical records; provide data to enable statistical reporting; assess the need for specialist equipment and support procurement; demonstrate the safe use of equipment to parents, staff and colleagues; participate in CPD to meet HPC requirements.
* Participate with senior colleagues in the management of occupational therapy provision in the College through activities such as audits of need, care, service prioritisation, and business planning.
Development
* Support newly qualified colleagues and technicians as required to undertake their day-to-day duties.
* Undertake regular supervisions (clinical, peer and line management) as defined and provided by the Trust.
* Work with senior colleagues in the delivery and development of the outreach service.
* Contribute to research and project work related to the complex needs of Seashells children and young people.
* Collaborate to develop programmes and advice for parents and college to maintain and develop the young person’s functional abilities.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist with children and/or young people with profound and complex learning disabilities and physical disabilities.
* Experience of organising own time and caseload.
* Experience of working with children and young people who sometimes exhibit challenging behaviour.
* Experience of providing supervision for newly qualified and technician staff.
Skills and knowledge
* Understanding of the needs of people with exceptional complex disabilities, including deafness, multisensory impairment and autism.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to write and maintain reports and student notes.
* Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Able to devise, implement, monitor and revise occupational therapy programmes.
* Able to listen and act on instructions.
* Organised and able to prioritise workload.
* Able to organise, support and co-ordinate group or individual activities.
* Awareness of augmentative and alternative communication systems.
* Able to plan and lead staff training activities.
Qualifications
* Recognised Occupational Therapy qualification
* Registered member of College of Occupational Therapists (COT)
* Registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
* Commitment to continued professional development
* GCSE or level 2 qualification in English and Mathematics
* Level 2 IT qualification or commitment to undertake
* BSL Level 1 or willingness to undertake
* Completion of appropriate postgraduate courses such as SI level 1 or higher or willingness to undertake
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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