# Occupational Therapy Team Lead

**Company**: Central London Community Health Trust
**Location**: Potters Bar
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £51,657 to £58,785 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join us as a Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead within our inpatient rehabilitation service in Hertfordshire.

This part-time, 6-month fixed-term opportunity offers the chance to bring your specialist skills to a supportive multidisciplinary team, helping people with complex and multiple conditions maximise their independence and achieve meaningful rehabilitation goals.

You will:

- Provide highly specialised OT assessment, treatment and clinical advice.

- Work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team.

- Provide specialist OT expertise and support to colleagues.

- Work with the OT Lead to develop the service and strengthen integrated working with health and social care partners.

- Support evidence-based, person-centred practice and the development of colleagues.

Main duties of the job:

- Manage a specialist caseload of patients with multiple and complex rehabilitation needs.

- Undertake highly specialised OT assessment and treatment, using evidence-based approaches to support individual goals and independence.

- Provide expert OT advice to patients, carers, relatives and health and social care professionals.

- Work as an active member of the multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation team to support safe, high-quality and person-centred care.

- Act as a specialist clinical resource for OT colleagues and other healthcare professionals across Hertfordshire.

- Support the OT Lead with service development and initiatives that strengthen integrated working with partner organisations.

- Share specialist knowledge and contribute to the development of OT practice across the service.

- Support colleagues to develop their clinical knowledge and skills and contribute to a positive learning environment.

You will have the opportunity to influence practice, contribute to service development and make a meaningful difference to patients during their rehabilitation journey.

The salary for this post is £51,657 to £58,785 a year, pro rata.

## Skills

### Required
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
- Evidence of active CPD portfolio
- Relevant Post graduate training
- Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies
- Ability to apply core Occupational Therapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centred, goal setting approach
- Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning
- Advanced communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
- Skills in supervision and appraisal of assistants, junior therapists & students

### Nice to have
- Membership of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT)
- Training in appraisal/supervision
- Post graduate qualification in specialist area at a masters or equivalent level in specialist field
- Experience of research and clinical audit
- Experience of working with social services
- Experience in setting up and running activity based group programme

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