Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Community

Integrated Care System; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A health and social care organization is seeking a part-time Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to oversee a community therapy team in Peterborough. This role involves providing leadership, conducting assessments, and ensuring high-quality rehabilitation services. Candidates should have a degree in Occupational Therapy, HCPC registration, and significant clinical experience. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Significant relevant postgraduate clinical experience in community settings.
• Advanced understanding of clinical conditions and experience managing long-term conditions.
• Member of RCOT required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee community therapy team and delivery of rehabilitation services.
• Provide clinical leadership in Occupational Therapy interventions.
• Conduct holistic assessments of patients with complex presentations.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Time management

Clinical supervision knowledge

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification in OT

Current HCPC registration

Management/Leadership qualification

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Community

The closing date is 14 August 2025

Exciting Opportunity: Part-Time Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (OT)

Location:Flexible across Huntingdon and Peterborough Locality (base negotiable)

In this leadership role, you'll oversee a dedicated community-based therapy team, delivering high-quality rehabilitation services. You'll work closely with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, and collaborate with Nursing and Mental Health professionals to ensure holistic care.

This position offers a fantastic chance to utilise your advanced clinical, managerial, and community-based skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Key Requirements:

• Ability to travel independently across the county, meeting time-sensitive service needs.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle (public transport is not suitable for this role).
• Strong teamwork ethic, accountability, and resilience under pressure.

We welcome applications from professionals who are ready to bring energy, expertise, and leadership to our team.

Note: For information on overseas driving licence eligibility, please refer to the DVLA website.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who can work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi professional Community Therapy team to provide a high standard of care to our patients.

This role will complement the existing Clinical Lead Occupational Therapists in the locality, to provide clinical leadership to all clinicians delivering Occupational Therapy interventions as well as providing resilience in managing the throughput, allocations and staff across the locality.

The service includes assessing, planning and developing specialist Occupational Therapist programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex needs. Clinicians are responsible for their own caseload, prioritising referrals according to clinical need, signposting appropriately and undertaking assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using advanced, specialist clinical reasoning skills.

This role is crucial in providing clinical expertise and mentorship so that all registered clinicians can provide a high-quality standard of care.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• You will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own and delegated work and work within codes of practice and professional guidelines. You will be required to undertake holistic assessments (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of specialist clinical reasoning skills. Your role includes providing specialist advice to all members of the team, service users and appropriate others, of changes involving current care plans, patients' progress and other relevant matters that pertain to the care of the patient, promoting independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• You will use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate; conduct risk assessments and health and safety assessments and immediately report any changes/newly identified risks. You will be expected to organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately. You will be actively involved in the development of the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Community Rehabilitation Service and the model of care.
• To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g., hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems, and pain. In doing this you will establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with patients, carers, colleagues, and other health care professionals, identifying when to refer into other services as appropriate. You will attend MDT Case reviews as required. This will enable you to assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Staff development within CPFT is highly valued and you will be supported to attend relevant internal and external courses to develop your knowledge and skills to improve clinical practice as identified as part of your Appraisal process.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent, e.g. BSc, MSc or Diploma entry level qualification in the OT profession
• Current HCPC registration
• Theoretical study and experience within a community setting to master's level or equivalent.
• Member of RCOT
• Management/Leadership qualification and experience

Experience

• Significant relevant postgraduate clinical experience in a variety of settings including community
• Advanced understanding of clinical conditions and clinical experience in managing long-term conditions
• Implementing change
• Clinical Supervisor
• Specialist knowledge of a broad range of OT client groups.

Skills and Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provisions.
• Advanced communication skills.
• Able to assess, plan and implement care
• Support Therapy Assistants and professional staff
• Time management and prioritisation skills
• Understanding of clinical supervision
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.
• Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
• Understands the principle of confidentiality
• Responsible for maintaining registration with HCPC and/or other professional bodies
• Knowledge of relevant outcome measures
• SystmOne

Physical Requirements

• The ability to kneel, bend & stoop and work in cramped environments
• The ability to move and manoeuvre people and equipment
• The ability to manoeuvre patients using moving and handling aids
• Travel around work base locally

Other

• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
• Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
• Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
• Shows respect for others' feelings, views and circumstances
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so.
• Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community Rehabilitation Service (base to be agreed)

Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre, Valley Park Centre, Sugar Way

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

310-MOPAC-7345762

Job locations

Community Rehabilitation Service (base to be agreed)

Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre, Valley Park Centre, Sugar Way