# Lead Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Active Care Group
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £59,493 to £65,113 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care as a Lead Occupational Therapist. You will lead, inspire, and shape the future of rehabilitation at Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, with a key role in supporting the delivery and development of therapy services at our neighbouring Chislehurst unit.

You will balance team leadership, service development, and clinical oversight with a small but rewarding clinical caseload, ensuring you remain connected to the patients and rehabilitation work at the heart of our service.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead with impact: Manage, mentor, and inspire the Occupational Therapy team, ensuring high-quality care delivery.

- Clinical leadership: Hold a small caseload with a focus on complex needs, guiding your team through best practice approaches.

- Shape the service: Drive service development, contribute to strategy, and champion continuous improvement.

- Support others: Provide supervision, teaching, and professional development to staff and students.

- Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with patients, families, carers, and the wider team to deliver truly holistic rehabilitation.

- Quality and safety: Lead on clinical governance, audit, and risk management to keep standards high and people safe.

Benefits:

- Free lunch when on duty

- 25 days plus bank holidays

- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e-learning and face-to-face training and development opportunities

- Benefits Hub giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop

- Free 24-hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App

- A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension

- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family

- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits

- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- neurological rehabilitation
- leadership
- clinical governance

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