At Ambitious about Autism, we have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Occupational Therapist at The Rise School.

You'll be part of an organisation that is committed to improving the outcomes for autistic children and young people, whilst the role itself will involve devising and implementing individual and group intervention programmes. You'll support learners throughout the preparing for adulthood process by resolving occupational performance barriers in line with the Ambitious Approach.

As part of our growth plans, we are looking for an Occupational Therapist to join this ambitious transdisciplinary team made up of OT's, Speech & Language Therapist and PBS specialists. You will have the opportunity to help support in service development, to embed occupational therapy for our autistic learners using our tiered model of therapy provision.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a Professionally Qualified Occupational Therapist to a degree or diploma level
• Be proactive in strengthening the effectiveness of the occupational therapy team by bringing knowledge and insight into service design
• Contribute to effective team development and monitoring, evaluating and improving service delivery to participate in supervision and continuing professional development
• Commitment to occupationally focused, person-centred and evidence-based practice.
• Contribute to and evaluate the training and development of teachers, parents and other professionals

We offer a wide range of benefits including a commitment to CPD (Continued Professional Development) excellent career opportunities, professional membership fees paid, welcome bonus of *£3,600 - £4,000, generous holiday allowance (48 days including bank holidays) and much more!

For further details on how you can make a difference and find out what we have to offer, please see our recruitment pack below.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Stephen Vickers on Svickers@ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk 

Please note, Ambitious about Autism withholds the right to close the role before the deadline if enough suitable applications are received prior to the closing date.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.