Occupational Therapist
St Dominic's School, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 4DX53 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
31 August 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual £28,769.10 - £50,219.20 (Benchmarked to NHS Band 5 scale point 19 – NHS band 7 scale point 36), depending on experience.
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic and strongly motivated individual to join our experienced team providing intensive specialist support for pupils and students. We seek an Occupational Therapist who wants to develop their career, skills and knowledge in a specialist educational setting.
This is a unique opportunity to develop clinical skills within an educational environment, offering the chance to work collaboratively with a range of professionals and to use therapeutic skills creatively to meet the needs of pupils and students. In return we offer excellent support from colleagues and staff, commitment to CPD, access to internal and external training.
If you believe you can help our learners to fulfil their potential at school, at home and in their communities and are looking for a fresh challenge, then this role may be just what you are looking for.
Key Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the Occupational Therapy provision across the waking day curriculum.
- To be accountable as a member of a multi-disciplinary team for pupil outcomes.
- To be responsible for maintaining and improving school standards
- To ensure that pupils have the fullest possible access to the whole curriculum
- To aim to ensure pupils achieve their full potential
- To further the holistic development of the pupil including functional life skills
Key Requirements:
- Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent with licence to practice
- Member of the College of Occupational Therapists
- Member of the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Post-graduate qualification and experience in Sensory Integration, Levels 1 & 2
- Understanding of wide range of physical, perceptual and sensory difficulties associated with ASD, SLCN and associated behaviours
- Knowledge of a range of standardised and functional assessment tools relevant to client group
What the school offers its staff
OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme, Employee Car Lease Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme and Free Virtual GP Appointments
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Dominic's School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 7 to 19
- Size
- 183 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- St Dominic's School website
- Email address
- zpetkova@stdominicsschool.org.uk
St Dominic’s School is a special academy in Surrey and provides outstanding education for pupils and students aged 7-19 typically with a primary diagnosis of Speech Language & Communication Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition. The school is located in Hambledon, close to Witley, Milford, Guildford and Godalming.
We are part of Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a specialist Trust with 12 Academies and seven College Centres across London, Surrey and Sussex.
At St Dominic’s we believe passionately in a multi-disciplinary, ‘needs led’ approach to meeting each child’s and young person’s needs, resulting in carefully managed groupings, including specialist intervention work from our in house therapeutic team.
The school works closely in partnership with families, referring authorities and external agencies to coordinate the best possible education, care, guidance and support for its pupils and students.
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