Lead Occupational Therapist - Specialist Rehabilitation

Lead Occupational Therapist – Specialist Rehabilitation

Location: Sheffield
Salary: £58000
Hours: Full Time
Job Type: Permanent

We are recruiting on behalf of a specialist neurological rehabilitation provider for an experienced Lead Occupational Therapist to lead a well-established Occupational Therapy team within a specialist inpatient rehabilitation service.

This is an excellent leadership opportunity for an experienced clinician looking to influence service development while maintaining a clinical caseload within a highly respected multidisciplinary rehabilitation environment.

As Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide both clinical and operational leadership to the Occupational Therapy service, supporting a team of Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and Rehabilitation Technicians.

Alongside leading the service, you will manage a specialist caseload, delivering comprehensive assessments and evidence-based rehabilitation programmes for adults with complex neurological and life-changing injuries.

The service supports individuals with conditions including acquired and traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, major trauma and limb loss.

• Lead and manage the Occupational Therapy service, ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
• Provide professional supervision, mentorship and clinical leadership to the Occupational Therapy team.
• Deliver specialist occupational therapy assessments, treatment planning and rehabilitation interventions.
• Manage a complex caseload using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
• Produce detailed clinical and medico-legal quality reports for commissioners, solicitors, case managers and other external professionals.
• Lead service development initiatives, quality improvement projects, audits and clinical governance activities.
• Support policy development, outcome measurement and service evaluation.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team to optimise client outcomes.
• Contribute to education, staff development and student placements.
• Represent the organisation at professional meetings, conferences and external events.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy with current HCPC registration.
• Master's level education or equivalent advanced clinical knowledge and experience.
• Significant post-registration Occupational Therapy experience.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience working within specialist neurological or complex rehabilitation services.
• At least 2 years' leadership experience
  , including supervision, mentoring and service management.
• Experience managing complex neurological rehabilitation caseloads.
• Strong clinical reasoning, report writing and assessment skills.
• Experience contributing to service development, audit and clinical governance.
• Excellent communication, leadership and multidisciplinary working skills.
• A full UK driving licence.

• RCOT membership.
• Leadership or management qualification.
• Experience with in independent or private healthcare.
• Medico-legal rehabilitation experience.
• Research and service evaluation.
• Budget or resource management.
• Casting, splinting or advanced rehabilitation technologies.
• Experience supporting clients with cognitive impairment and behaviours that challenge.