Occupational Therapy Team Manager

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapy Team Manager

The closing date is 22 November 2026

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your leadership career? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to become the Occupational Therapy Team Manager at Antelope House.

We are looking for someone who shares our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve.

At Antelope House, we are dedicated to the treatment and recovery of mental health. We recognise the whole person and meet them where they are at. Our patients want someone who is kind, approachable, caring, trustworthy and honest. And the same can be said for the team you will lead.

As the Occupational Therapy Team Manager, you will provide leadership, support and professional development to Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and AHP Support Staff. The role combines operational and professional leadership with a specialist clinical caseload, enabling you to maintain and develop your clinical expertise while supporting workforce development and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Antelope House has four wards. Saxon Ward (for men) and Trinity Ward (for women) both treat people with a functional mental illnesses -- such as depression, a personality disorder or schizophrenia. Hamtun Ward, is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) whilst Abbey Ward is a female acute ward.

Main duties and tasks include:

• To contribute to the inter-disciplinary working within the inpatient mental health therapy team and locality by teaching, learning & practicing inter-disciplinary skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework or training scheme.
• Be responsible for the planning, development, and delivery of occupational therapy at Antelope House hospital. And consider additional allied health professional roles to enhance the therapeutic offer at Antelope House.
• Provide professional leadership, supervision and workforce development within inpatient and community settings.
• Drive service improvement and innovation through the use of audit, outcome measures and service user feedback.
• Support effective caseload management and patient flow across mental health pathways.
• Represent the AHP workforce within operational, governance and service development forums.
• Support student education, practice placements and the development of future AHP professionals.
• Contribute to clinical governance, professional standards and wider AHP initiatives across the Trust.
• There is scope to work clinically where appropriate, to support direct patient care and clinical leadership.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a…