Job Description

Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Inscape House School

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:

We're looking for a passionate, experienced OT who can lead with vision and clinical expertise. You will have:


A degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy. Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with a current practicing 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 x 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.

Proud to be a

real living wage employer.

Refer a friend scheme

, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us 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 offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online. Access to our

Employee Assistance Programme

for you and adults at 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.


Curious about us? Watch our quick career video as an Occupational Therapist:


https://youtu.be/Hb-9Dg-qK-s


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.


Work Location: In person