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Job description

Join our Psychology and Therapy Hub (PATH) and make a meaningful difference in everyday life for adoptive, kinship and care-experienced families. We’re recruiting an Occupational Therapist with specialist expertise in sensory processing/sensory integration and attachment-informed practice to deliver practical, trauma-informed assessment and intervention that strengthens regulation, participation and connection. Make a difference that families feel every day: co-produce practical strategies that support calmer routines, better sleep, smoother transitions and greater participation at home, school and in the community. Bring specialist sensory expertise: assess sensory processing and regulation needs and translate findings into clear, realistic plans for parents/carers and partner professionals. Work at the sensory-attachment interface: use a trauma- and attachment-informed lens to understand behaviour and build felt safety and co-regulation alongside sensory strategies. Thrive in an MDT: contribute an OT perspective to formulation-led work within PATH, collaborating with psychology and therapy colleagues to create joined-up support. Flexible, UK-wide reach: deliver support primarily online with occasional travel for team days, training or commissioned work (as required and agreed).

Responsibilities

• To contribute to and maintain accurate records for those using the service on Adoption UK systems and ensuring compliance with both GDPR, safeguarding and confidentiality.
• Contribute to the training offer within Adoption UK.
• Provide line management and/or supervision within the PATH team.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and produce clear, timely reports for a range of audiences.
• Support service development, evaluation and quality improvement, using outcome measures and feedback.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary formulation and intervention planning.
• Identify and manage safeguarding risk in line with AUK policies.
• Facilitating reflective groups for families referred to PATH.
• Provide specialist advice, consultation and reflective practice to colleagues and partner services.
• Deliver high-quality psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for the PATH client group.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist.
• Strong experience supporting children/young people and their parents/carers (including complex presentations).
• Proven skills in sensory processing assessment and intervention, including regulation strategies, activity adaptation and environmental modification.
• Confidence working in an attachment- and trauma-informed way with adoptive/kinship/care-experienced families (or closely related work).
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills, able to translate specialist thinking into practical, non-judgemental guidance that families can use.

Further Information

Please email jobs@adoptionuk.org.uk