- Salary:
- £31766.97-£38669.87 FTE
- Role type:
- Term-Time Only, Part Time
- Hours:
- 25 hours / 39 weeks (0.56 FTE)
- Contract type:
- Permanent
- Contract:
- Term-time only
- Location:
- Ullenwood
- Closing Date:
- 13/07/2025
- Job Details:
Occupational Therapist
Term Time only
25 hours per week
Outskirts of Cheltenham (transport can be provided from central Cheltenham / Gloucester)
We are looking for a qualified Occupational Therapist who is creative, dynamic and driven to join our friendly, hard-working team at National Star. The role is based at our stunning Ullenwood campus just outside Cheltenham.
Occupational therapy plays a key role in supporting young adult learners who have complex physical and learning disabilities to achieve their goals of independence and progress within their educational outcomes. Most of our students participate in a 3-year education programme, giving us the opportunity to build strong relationships, complete a variety of assessments and deliver intervention programmes that enable our young people to make real progress and gain a real sense of achievement.
Ideally you will have a range of experiences, either working in a similar field or with transferable clinical skills that would enable you to support our learners. Previous experience in paediatrics, neurology, acquired brain injury, wheelchairs and special seating, complex disability, profound and multiple learning disability or sensory integration would be of particular interest to us.
It goes without saying that you will have excellent communication skills, to enable you to liaise effectively with other therapy teams, tutors, residential staff, parents and external agencies.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to experience occupational therapy within a college setting, to experience working as an ‘OT’ you were trained to do. We have excellent facilities and a range of resources across the college to help support our learner’s development with dedicated spaces such as sensory integration spaces, life skill kitchens a range of treatment rooms.
We offer an intensive mandatory training induction package to our new starters and there are opportunities to complete internal/external training relevant to our area of practice.
Whether it’s the big moments some of us take for granted or the small triumphs that others wouldn’t expect, together, we focus on what’s possible for every person we support and recognise that the connections we make today are the memories of tomorrow. It’s their life. You make sure they’re busy living it.
How to apply
At National Star, we know the value of a diverse workforce, and welcome applications from all areas of the community. This includes those with disabilities, and we are a proud Disability Confident employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities. In 2018 National Star received an 'Outstanding' from Ofsted.
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.
We prefer people to submit an online application as this helps support the charity in saving money. Alternatively please send your cv to recruitment@nationalstar.org or call our recruitment department 01242 504300 for further information or an application form. If you have a disability and need to apply using an alternative format, or if you have any technical problems with our recruitment system please let us know.
All future correspondence with you will be via email (application acknowledgement, invitation to interview etc). Please check your email regularly.
