Occupational Therapy Team Lead – Inscape House School Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours/week, 41 weeks/year Term time Contract: Permanent Salary: £45,911 (pro-rated from £49,943 FTE)
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.
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.
Benefits
Annual leave – 27 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
Generous pension scheme – a minimum company pension contribution of 4%.
Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
Reward and Discount platform – offering discounts on high street shopping, travel and insurance.
Generous death in service benefit – up to 6 times basic salary.
Eligibility to apply for a 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 – vouchers and extra holiday.
Promotion of wellbeing across the organisation, including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and a free weekly yoga session, in person or online.
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in your household.
Inclusive networks for colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability & Neurodiversity Action Group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).
Curious about us? Watch our quick career video as an Occupational Therapist
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.
This role will involve regulated activity and is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
This role will involve regulated activity.
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.