OT Team Lead
Fleet, England, United Kingdom Temporary Posted 5 days ago
Job Overview
We are looking for an experienced Band 7 to join our team to provide a year's maternity cover as OT Team Lead.
With a focus on clinical skills and quality improvement within the OT pathway and MDT working, you will bring your clinical expertise and local knowledge to inform the next step of development within Intermediate Care (ERS).
You will receive regular supervision and will be responsible for line managing your B6 OTs and overseeing their supervision of junior staff and students.
Main duties of the job
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
We are looking for an experienced Band 7 to join our team to provide a year's maternity cover as OT Team Lead.
With a focus on clinical skills and quality improvement within the OT pathway and MDT working, you will bring your clinical expertise and local knowledge to inform the next step of development within Intermediate Care (ERS).
You will receive regular supervision and will be responsible for line managing your B6 OTs and overseeing their supervision of junior staff and students.
Main duties of the job
- To provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs.
- To provide expert advice, guidance and information to patients, health and intermediate care professionals, carers and relatives and other non-professionals
- To contribute to the Intermediate Care Team, and to provide a specialised resource for other OT staff and health care professionals.
- To act as a deputy for the Service Manager during their absence, assuming responsibility for the operational management of the team or department. This includes allocating and organising the duties of staff to ensure daily service priorities are met.
- To be responsible, with other senior staff, for the clinical supervision, mentoring, education and assessment of OT registered staff, unregistered staff, graduate level and work experience students on rotation to the department.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs.
- Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload and organise this efficiently with respect to clinical priorities and time management, ensuring a high standard of care for patients under your own and junior staff’s management.
- Demonstrate advanced analytical, investigative, and manual therapy skills to assess, diagnose, and treat patients with acute, chronic, and highly complex presentations.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive patient records in line with professional and Trust standards.
- Assess and manage clinical risk within your own patient caseload, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice always.
- Provide both spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of Occupational Therapy aims and ensure a consistent approach to care.
- Liaise with Consultants and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to represent Occupational Therapy at meetings to ensure coordinated, evidence-based interventions.
- Communicate effectively across language and cultural barriers and produce complex patient-related documentation as needed.
- Maintain competency in relevant information technology, such as Electronic Patient Record and other relevant digital tools.
- To participate, as required, in extended services weekend working, 7-day working and extended shifts depending on the needs of the service.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Hold a recognised degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in the relevant area at Band 6 within the NHS, demonstrating a broad base of clinical depth and competence
- Worked in the NHS or equivalent and familiar with the NHS system and the role of the autonomous OT in both clinical and non-clinical role
- Previous experience of working as a Band 7 OT.
Essential criteria
- Specialist level of clinical knowledge and skill
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
