Team Lead Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Integrated Stroke and Neurology Service as a Team Lead. You will manage a varied caseload of patients with complex stroke and neurological conditions, providing assessment, rehabilitation, and discharge planning. The position involves professional leadership and supervision for other OTs, assistants, and students, driving service improvement and evidence-based practice. You will also lead audits, quality improvement projects, and service development initiatives within the stroke and neuro pathway.
Key responsibilities
- Lead complex caseloads of neurological patients across community settings, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
- Deliver specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions in various community venues, including patients' homes and care homes.
- Maintain professional and legal accountability for clinical work, adhering to policies and professional standards, and monitor team practice quality.
- Apply advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to develop and implement personalized, goal-oriented treatment plans.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Current registration with HCPC
- Post graduate training
- Sound knowledge of neurological conditions and rehabilitation
- Clinical knowledge of all areas within remit of post
- Awareness of the impact of Clinical Governance on service delivery
- Substantial NHS experience working in field of Neurorehabilitation
- Broad experience of Neurorehabilitation - Acute or community
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective at all levels
- Skilled in planning and organisation, enabling effective management of a patient caseload
- Able to use a risk assessment approach to maximise patients' safety and function
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Adaptable and resilient in high-pressure situations
- Possesses a full UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken further specialised training, e.g., communication and assertiveness
- Member of RCOT SSNP
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to post
- Broad background of Occupational therapy skills
- Attendance at relevant training courses, e.g. National Stroke conferences
- Postgraduate training in neurological rehabilitation or leadership
- Clinical supervision of students
- Experience of staff supervision
- Lead, develop, and evaluate the service effectively using data collection, audits, and reports.
- Proven experience teaching Neurology, both in formal and informal settings
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Team Lead Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Stroke and Neurology Service as a Team Lead Occupational Therapist. This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician with a strong background in stroke and neurological rehabilitation who is ready to take the next step in their leadership journey. Working across acute stroke services and community stroke outreach, you will manage a varied caseload of patients with complex stroke and neurological conditions, supporting them through assessment, rehabilitation, discharge planning and recovery. You will work closely with a highly skilled stroke multidisciplinary team. Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will provide professional leadership and supervision to occupational therapists, assistants and students, helping to develop staff, drive service improvement and promote evidence-based practice. The role offers opportunities to lead audits, quality improvement projects and service development initiatives across the stroke and neuro pathway You will be supported by the8a Occupational Therapy Lead, who will provide professional leadership and supervision, alongside opportunities to develop your clinical, leadership and service improvement
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