occupational therapy Jobs

We're here to answer your questions and offer advice and support.

No question is too small.

We will never pressure you into joining us;

• Find out more about what we do

• Understand how we work

• Establish how we can help

• Understand how we can support you

• Discuss pay rates

Once we've had an informal chat, we suggest taking some time to think about what we've discussed and decide whether you might want to move forwards. It's entirely your choice

• Is Private Practice for you?

• Do you like The OT Centre's ethos?

• Will we work well together?

• Does the possibility of working with us and our clients excite you?

• Do you have any other questions?

We consider our future work together as a partnership. For a partnership to work, we need to better understand each other, how we like to work together, what our mutual expectations might be and where our skills and particular interests lay.

We typically set aside an hour for a video interview.

We can usually make a joint decision at the end of our interview.

Our straightforward screening process helps us to collect a set of documentation for you;

• verify your identity

• verify your qualifications and experience

• collect a reference

• file key documents including DBS, HCPC & RCOT registrations

• develop an OT Centre CV and Bio

• identify the sectors you are most interested in working with together with your preferred primary specialism(s) to tailor our case offerings for you

• discuss the next steps

Our carefully staged orientation is designed to familiarise you with private practice through The OT Centre and ensure you are fully prepared for your first case;

• provide you with secure online access to our systems, apps and documentation - all the tools you need to excel in private practice

• orientate you around the sector(s) you have identified an interest in

• provide you with a set of Welcome Packs to support your orientation

• prepare you for your first case

• introduce you to the team and our community support forums

We will establish a regular review to support you in your early cases.

We are here for ongoing support, questions and any help you need along the way

Once you're underway and are seeing clients, our Support Programme ensures that you have any help you need as you progress and Helen Spencer, our Clinical Director, will personally oversee your work and step in with help as needed. 

We are also available for you for ad-hoc support and questions by phone, call-back booking, email, video and chat and our private Community of OT's are available for Q&A and peer support.

Let's consider a referral for rehabilitation as an example.

You would first undertake an Initial Assessment to discover the clients needs, difficulties, challenges and circumstances together with an initial view on how we can help. Your findings are set out in a templated Initial Assessment Outcome Report. A fixed period of Treatment follows, based on your Assessment, and is concluded by a Treatment Outcome Report which summarises your treatment and client progress. If at this point you recommend further treatment, you would then undertake another period of treatment again followed by a review and Treatment Outcome Report. Treatment periods end when the client's goals have been achieved. Our page for Case Managers sets out "Our Process" in more detail.

✔ Our Orientation and Support Programmes prepare you for your first client and provide a support framework for help along the way

✔ Our detailed Report Templates provide a framework and clear guidance for report creation and content

We run a half-day Orientation Programme specifically designed to get you to a point where you are ready to see your first client. It covers everything you will need to know to excel in private practice with us.

Once you are underway and are seeing clients, our Support Programme ensures that you have any help you need as you progress and Helen Spencer, our Clinical Director, will personally oversee your work and step in with help as needed. Alongside this, we are always available by phone, call-back booking, email, video and chat.

✔ Half-day orientation programme for new starters

✔ All aspects of your work overseen and supported by our Clinical Director during your first cases with us

✔ As needed support by phone, video call, chat or email

✔ Access to The OT Centre's private Community of OT's for Q&A and peer support

We work with the Medicolegal sector, Schools, Colleges, Businesses, Charities, Local Authorities , Housing Associations and Private Individuals providing Occupational Therapy and Sensory Integration services for clients with a range of needs, diagnoses and conditions.

✔ Our primary specialisms span  Neurorehabilitation, Neurodivergence, Learning Difficulties, Spinal Injury , Sensory Processing , Vocational Rehabilitation, Housing, Posture and Seating, Orthopaedic Injuries, Manual Handling, Elderly Care.

✔ We provide Assessments, Treatments, Consultations and Interventions for clients with a range of conditions and needs including Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury, Head Injury, Stroke, Hypoxic Brain Injury, Anoxic Brain Injury, Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (PDOC), Catastrophic Injury, Spinal Injury, Fractures, Amputation, Erbs Palsy, Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autism / Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Progressive Neurological Conditions, Parkinson's Disease, Dementia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Learning Difficulties, Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Global Developmental Delay (GDD), Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD), Posture, Spasticity, Seating and Wheelchairs.

It varies based on your location but if we don't have any cases available for you when you join us, we work hard to market your services with us and create client opportunities for you.

✔ We have access to a huge network of Case Managers and Law firms working in the Medicolegal sector.

✔ We don't saturate an area with OT's which means you aren't in competition with lots of OT's in your area.

Our OT and SI services are community based which means we see clients in their own environment, whether that be at home, at work, at school or college, care facility etc.

You can commit as little as one weekday.

✔ When we offer you a client case, you aren't obliged to take it

✔ You decide if and when you take a client case with us

✔ You choose your client caseload based on your capacity and interests

We don't focus in a single area, we have OT's providing services across the UK, from Devon and Cornwall through Wales, England and Scotland. We don't saturate an area with OT's which means you won't be in competition with lots of other OT's in your area.

✔ We work across the whole of the UK

You determine your working pattern. If we offer you a case which requires input on days or times which don't work for you, you don't have to take it.

✔ You control when you work, how much work you do and what kind of cases you take

We have developed a custom built App specifically to provide you with a quick and effective way to manage all aspects of your client cases, including Goal Planning and Session Outcome Reports ('clinical notes'), client and customer communications, client appointment scheduling and access to a library of templatised reports.

✔ Unique purpose built Client Management App designed to help you manage your client caseload and documentation, exclusive to The OT Centre

✔ Detailed templates for our Client Reports

✔ Our half-day Orientation Programme includes full training in the use of our App

We don't dictate your rates. We will have a mutual discussion and come to a mutual agreement following your interview based on your skills and experience.

✔ We offer excellent rates of pay

✔ We pay you for all your client work, we do not dictate what you can and cannot get paid for

If you are skilled, motivated and want to succeed in private practice then we want to talk to you wherever you are based.

✔ Check out our Jobs Board to find out whether we are actively recruiting to a specific position in your area.