Team Lead Occupational Therapist (Community Inpatient Rehabilitation)
Licensed sponsor Bracknell, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 59 minutes ago
Job Overview
Are you an experienced and passionate clinician looking for the next step in your career? We are seeking a highly skilled Occupational Therapist Team Lead to provide expert leadership and specialist clinical care within our Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Team.
About The Role
This is a pivotal role requiring strong clinical expertise and leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care. As a Occupational Therapist Team Lead, you will be responsible for managing a complex caseload, guiding the multidisciplinary team (MDT), and shaping service development.
The role covers a 7 day service, however we can offer full time or part time hours to suit your needs.
What We’re Looking For
The Team Lead Occupational Therapist will provide both clinical leadership and operational oversight for the therapy team within the unit. This role will involve supporting the therapy team to provide person-centred care to service users with complex needs, using specialist occupational therapy skills to assess, plan, and deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions and plan complex discharges.
You will also lead on person-centred care planning and ensure the team's adherence to best practices, including quality and governance frameworks. In addition to clinical duties, you will have operational responsibilities such as management, recruitment, staff supervision, and service improvement initiatives.
Why Join Us?
Working for our organisation
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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Key Responsibilities
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
Are you an experienced and passionate clinician looking for the next step in your career? We are seeking a highly skilled Occupational Therapist Team Lead to provide expert leadership and specialist clinical care within our Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Team.
About The Role
This is a pivotal role requiring strong clinical expertise and leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care. As a Occupational Therapist Team Lead, you will be responsible for managing a complex caseload, guiding the multidisciplinary team (MDT), and shaping service development.
The role covers a 7 day service, however we can offer full time or part time hours to suit your needs.
What We’re Looking For
- Registered Occupational Therapist with extensive experience in inpatient therapy settings.
- Leadership and management skills within a healthcare environment.
- Ability to work autonomously while contributing to a wider multidisciplinary team.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to handle complex and sensitive information.
- Experience in service development and change management.
- Commitment to professional development and evidence-based practice.
- Someone looking to step up into a senior role
The Team Lead Occupational Therapist will provide both clinical leadership and operational oversight for the therapy team within the unit. This role will involve supporting the therapy team to provide person-centred care to service users with complex needs, using specialist occupational therapy skills to assess, plan, and deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions and plan complex discharges.
You will also lead on person-centred care planning and ensure the team's adherence to best practices, including quality and governance frameworks. In addition to clinical duties, you will have operational responsibilities such as management, recruitment, staff supervision, and service improvement initiatives.
Why Join Us?
- We can offer full time or part time hours
- Support for someone looking to step into their first senior role.
- Work in a supportive and dynamic team with opportunities for growth.
- Engage in meaningful service development projects.
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits package.
- Access to ongoing professional training and career progression.
Working for our organisation
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
Key Responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical leadership and act as a professional role model within the MDT.
- Work autonomously, ensuring accountability for personal and delegated clinical tasks.
- Develop and implement service strategies and clinical standard operating procedures.
- Build and maintain strong internal and external networks.
- Represent the team at Trust-wide and strategic meetings.
- Oversee the planning and prioritisation of patient care within the inpatient setting.
- Ensure high standards of clinical practice, developing and evaluating guidelines and procedures.
- Provide specialist clinical interventions and manage a complex caseload.
- Use outcome measures to assess treatment effectiveness.
- Actively contribute to the education and supervision of staff and students.
- Lead service development initiatives, including audits and research projects.
- Manage HR functions such as recruitment, appraisals, and absence management within the team.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Occupational Therapy Degree
- HCPC Registration
- Clinical Educator / Student Educator qualification
- NHS Leadership Training
- Educated to Masters level
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant B6 experience
- Leadership experience
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of audit
- Clinical experience in different settings e.g. acute/community
- Community experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments.
- Knowledge of current political drivers in relation to health and social care issues
- Highly developed knowledge of general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity.
- Understanding & involvement of Clinical Governance and risk assessment
- Hospital discharge policies and processes
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
