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Occupational Therapy Assistant - Cheltenham, United Kingdom - National Star

National Star

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Occupational therapy plays a key role in helping to prepare students at National Star for their developing life of independence.

We're looking for term-time only Occupational Therapy Assistants to join our team on a fixed term of 12 months.

These are full time roles with some flexibility in hours according to the needs of our students, but we could also consider part time if required.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to begin your career and gain some valuable work experience in occupational therapy within our college setting, seeing for yourself how your interventions can help students to develop new skills for life.

You will help a senior Occupational Therapist to assess and then provide therapy for students with a variety of physical and/or learning disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

You will take part in formal learning sessions working with tutors and learners to ensure occupational therapy approaches are used to develop growing independence.

Part of your role will be to assess learning environments to ensure they are safe for students and provide the maximum opportunity for them to learn and develop.

You'll get the opportunity to become confident in using various items of adapted equipment too.

So that we can understand the progress being made by students you will be expected to maintain individual therapy notes and electronic records of work.

To find out more about out OT team, please visit our website or for more information regarding these roles please contact our recruitment team:

How to apply
Please note that all applicants will be expected to undertake a DBS Disclosure, and undergo the necessary employer checks.

The level of disclosure to be applied for will be dependent on your job role and will be discussed with you during the recruitment process but is usually an enhanced level.

Where appropriate, the adult and child barred lists will be checked and we will not employ anyone who appears on either of those registers.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Salary:
£21,512.00-£21,830.00 per year

Expected hours:
No more than 44 per week

Benefits: