Job detail for Occupational Therapist

The Service & Team:

The SEND Support Service works with children and young people with a wide range of needs from 0-25 years and they are at the heart of everything we do.  We are a wide range of professionals including teachers, advisors, speech and language therapists and an occupational therapist.  We are excited to offer this new role to work with us and our colleagues in the Statutory SEN team and EOTAS team.

The Role:

This role will involve some work with children and young people assessing their needs which are usually around sensory processing challenges.

You will be expected to write accessible written reports and be involved in statutory SEND processes.

The role will involve close work with our current OT to deliver training and work with schools/settings as well as other colleagues in the SEND Support Services.

We place a high importance on training and development.  Supervision will be carried out by a suitably qualified OT

Working Pattern:

37 hours per week

What you’ll need to succeed:

You will be an enthusiastic, experienced Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration.  You will be able to assess the needs of children and young people (usually around their sensory processing challenges) and provide high quality written reports sometimes within statutory timeframes.  You will enjoy working independently and with colleagues in different teams.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Melinda Leishman melinda.leishman@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

We recognise that you may choose to use AI tools when preparing your application. We ask that any information you include is an accurate reflection of your own skills, knowledge, experience and achievements. You may be asked to discuss the examples and evidence you provide during the selection process.

We may adapt our shortlisting approach where we receive a high volume of applications. Any shortlisting decisions will be based on the information provided in your application and the essential requirements of the role.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.