Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Community

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a part-time Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to oversee a community-based therapy team in Peterborough and Huntingdon. The role demands strong clinical skills, teamwork, and the ability to manage patient care effectively. Applicants should be experienced and possess a full UK driving licence. This position offers competitive support for professional development and a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Support for professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Ability to travel independently across the county.
• Strong teamwork ethic and accountability.
• Experience in managing and overseeing therapy teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a community-based therapy team.
• Deliver rehabilitation services and collaborate with various health professionals.
• Ensure high-quality standard of care for patients.

Skills

Teamwork

Resilience under pressure

Clinical reasoning skills

Communication

Education

Registered Occupational Therapist

Full UK driving license

Job description

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.


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.

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.

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 and empowering 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

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.


This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025