Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is seeking a Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead to join their Integrated Therapies team. The role offers the opportunity to impact patient care by managing a caseload, supervising staff, and contributing to service development. With a focus on quality and clinical governance, you will ensure the delivery of effective therapeutic interventions across various settings, reinforcing the commitment to transforming health and care while enjoying a competitive salary and rewarding benefits.

Benefits

NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Membership of My Reward Hub

Access to wages as you earn

Online and face-to-face support for wellbeing

Access to eLearning and CPD opportunities

Innovation funding for staff initiatives

Organisational commitment to clinical and quality standards

Qualifications

• Proven experience of supervisory role at Band 6 or above.
• Evidence of professional development.
• Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex clinical caseload of patients as autonomous practitioner.
• Ensure high-quality, cost-effective clinical service based on evidence.
• Effectively communicate with patients and manage treatment resources.

Skills

Excellent knowledge of paediatric therapy

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Clinical engagement

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Registered with Health and Care Professions Council

Post graduate qualifications

Master’s degree

Job description

Vacancies Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead

Job Introduction

You will contribute to the overall service delivery model and team advancement within the Integrated Therapy service and help deliver paediatric Occupational Therapyin a variety of settings to include clinic, school, and patients own home across Wiltshire.

To be responsible for managing a complex clinical caseload of patients and to maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner and provide clinical and peer supervision of staff across the team and across professions where appropriate.

In this role you will alsobe responsible for ensuring the service provides a high quality, cost effective and evidence based clinical service to children and young people accessing the service and their families in collaboration with Professional leads, clinical managers and other team leaders.

Main Responsibility

Patient/client care

• To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.

Operational and Administrative Responsibilities

• You will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

Financial and physical resources

• Beresponsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available in the department.

Information and Reporting

• Use evidence-based practice, audits and published research to inform practice.
• Participate in audits/research projects and support the wider clinical governance programme.

The Ideal Candidate

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council.
• Excellent knowledge of paediatric therapy
• Evidence of own professional development
• Proven experience of supervisory role at Band 6 or above.
• Leadership training/experience
• Evidence of specialist knowledge which equates to post graduate qualifications
• Evidence of further professional development and study to Master’s degree
• Budget management and/or knowledge of implementing cost efficiencies/best value for money practices
• Experience of giving presentations and promoting a service/organisation to relevant stakeholders
• Driving Licence

Experience

• 5 or more Years post-registration experience
• Ability to engage and work within communities
• Experience in patient engagement and audit
• Experience of multiagency partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders
• Evidence of leadership and management skills
• Experience of providing clinical supervision/line management

Knowledge / Skills

• Current knowledge of child Health and Social Care policy
• Up to date knowledge of integrated therapy development- national and local
• Current knowledge of Child Protection/safeguarding procedures
• Evidence of providing evidence base and Child/family-centred care
• Demonstrable skills in clinical engagement, service development, professional leadership and service management
• Able to work across professional and organisational boundaries
• Teaching/group work
• Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively in a variety of settings.

Package Description

As a Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead within Integrated Therapies, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Salisbury, Trowbridge or Chippenham hubs.

You will feel valued as a Integrated Therapies Team Lead, Children’s Occupational Therapist, Band 7 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148 - £52,809Band 7Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead

• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/40134/15920
• Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
• Closing Date 13 July, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Allied Health Professionals