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.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
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:
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Theresa Maunder at [email protected]
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.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
