# Team Lead Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £51,657 to £58,785 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join a supportive, forward-thinking team and help shape the future of therapy services across General and Specialist Medicine wards.

We're looking for a dynamic, motivated Team Lead Occupational Therapist who's ready to make an impact. You'll work in close partnership with the Physiotherapy Team Lead to manage a large interdisciplinary team and oversee day-to-day operations across Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and General Medicine.

**Clinical Skills**

- Leadership for a dedicated OT team, providing supervision, guidance, and professional development.

- Advanced autonomous practice with complex patients -- delivering high-level assessments, interventions, and discharge planning within a multidisciplinary environment.

- Performance oversight across both short-stay and long-stay wards, requiring clinical judgement and organisational skills to ensure timely assessment and effective support.

- Expert input to inpatient teams, acting as a clinical resource and champion for best practice.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Staff development

- Service development and innovation

- Quality improvement initiatives

- Research and audit activity

**Main Duties of the Job**

- To be jointly responsible for the day-to-day operational management of physiotherapy and occupational therapy over 7 medical wards.

- To provide skilled team leadership in planning and delivering high standards of occupational therapy assessment, management, treatment, and advice to patients on the medical wards on a daily basis.

- To take a major role in the advanced assessment and management of patients within this specialty who may have a complex presentation and/or a multi-pathology presentation, determining best delivery of care, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

- Be involved in developing the service in line with national and local strategic plans.

- To line manage the Medical Therapy team occupational therapists consisting of band 6 x3, band 5 x1, band 4 x 3/4 staff.

- The Trust is moving towards 7-day working and this post will be expected to participate in providing the OT service across 7 days, including extended hours and weekend working.

**Benefits**

- The full range of NHS benefits and discounts.

**Person Specification**

- Degree/Diploma in Occupational therapy

- Appropriate training at MSc Level of equivalent experiential development

- Experience as a senior OT in surgery/cardiorespiratory/neuro/general and elderly medicine

- Experience working within an acute hospital setting

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Leadership
- Autonomous Practice
- Multidisciplinary Environment

### Nice to have
- Leadership training

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