ICT Therapy Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading the Intermediate Care Team (ICT) to provide specialist rehabilitation services, preventing hospital admissions and supporting complex discharges. The post holder will clinically assess patients, develop care plans, and provide expert advice to healthcare professionals and families. It requires autonomous practice, leadership skills, and active promotion of the service within the community.
Essential criteria
- Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within relevant service delivering effective patient focused care.
- Experience of working autonomously assessing and treating patients.
- Proven evidence of advanced organisational/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care.
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Desirable criteria
- Community/primary care experience
- Teaching and assessing
- BSc/Diploma Occupational therapy or equivalent
- Registered with Health & Care Professions Council
- Minimum 5 years post graduate experience including 2 years in specialist area
- Continuing Professional
- Development diary including evidence of reflective practice, training and clinical experience
- Practice Placement Educators training.
- Member of Relevant Specialist Section
- Advanced clinical assessment and leadership skills in specialty.
- Decisive, able to make decisions quickly and be assertive.
- Proven listening/counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills including teaching patients in how to manage their conditions.
- Ability to clinically lead and influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues (incl. long term, complex or other conditions encompassing the care of older people).
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of OT.
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, communication skills
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical and holistic assessment to direct patient care
- Time management and organisational skills
- Ability to conduct and evaluate own projects successfully.
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- Demonstrate an understanding of National agenda for speciality.
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- Knowledge of quality standards and NICE recommendations/NSF/CQC
- Ability to carry out audit/ research.
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- IT Skills
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- Presentation skills
- Other
- Ability to do home visits and supervise complex clinical situations/attend community based meetings and MDTs.
- Good health/attendance record.
- Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within relevant service delivering effective patient focused care.
- Experience of working autonomously assessing and treating patients.
- Proven evidence of advanced organisational/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care.
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- Community/primary care experience
- Teaching and assessing
- BSc/Diploma Occupational therapy or equivalent
- Registered with Health & Care Professions Council
- Minimum 5 years post graduate experience including 2 years in specialist area
- Continuing Professional
- Development diary including evidence of reflective practice, training and clinical experience
- Practice Placement Educators training.
- Member of Relevant Specialist Section
- Advanced clinical assessment and leadership skills in specialty.
- Decisive, able to make decisions quickly and be assertive.
- Proven listening/counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills including teaching patients in how to manage their conditions.
- Ability to clinically lead and influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues (incl. long term, complex or other conditions encompassing the care of older people).
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of OT.
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, communication skills
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical and holistic assessment to direct patient care
- Time management and organisational skills
- Ability to conduct and evaluate own projects successfully.
- -
- Demonstrate an understanding of National agenda for speciality.
- -
- Knowledge of quality standards and NICE recommendations/NSF/CQC
- Ability to carry out audit/ research.
- -
- IT Skills
- -
- Presentation skills
- Other
- Ability to do home visits and supervise complex clinical situations/attend community based meetings and MDTs.
- Good health/attendance record.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
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CSH Surrey
ICT Therapy Lead
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
CSH Surrey Intermediate Care Team (ICT) is a 7 day service which provides specialist individualised rehabilitation packages of care to patients referred from the community in crisis, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting complex discharges from hospitals to enable patients to maximise independence in the most appropriate care setting.
In partnership with members of the multi-disciplinary team, including the Transfer of Care Hub based at St Peters Hospital,the post holder will develop,implement and evaluate a seamless specialist ICT service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical and rehabilitation care and support.
The post holder will take a leading role in the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced complex discharge care,or admission avoidance,with care provided in their own home by the Intermediate Care team,Reablement, Community Rehabilitation team and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing advice, education and support to health care professionals, patients and their families. They will actively case find and promote the service working closely with GPs, adult social care and the voluntary sector.
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