Lead Occupational Therapist

Active Care Group; Hall Green; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in the UK is seeking a Lead Occupational Therapist to shape innovative services in neurorehabilitation. You'll lead a multidisciplinary team and ensure effective delivery of specialized therapy. The ideal candidate has HCPC registration, extensive experience in neuro rehabilitation, and strong leadership skills. This role offers 25 days holiday, a birthday off, and other comprehensive benefits, including a free health plan and an employee assistance program.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Employee Assistance Programme

5% matched pension

Medicash Health Plan

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in neurological rehabilitation or related complex care settings.
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills.
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Occupational Therapy team.
• Work closely with clients and their families.
• Supervise and mentor junior occupational therapists and team members.
• Participate in clinical audit and quality improvement.
• Ensure high communication standards with stakeholders.

Skills

Experience in neurological rehabilitation

Strong leadership skills

Autonomous practitioner

Passion for innovation

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers in complex care. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

Are you ready to take your expertise in neurorehabilitation to the next level and help shape a cutting-edge service from the ground upOur Birmingham service is transitioning to Active Neuro, the newly launched division of Active Care Group, which provides specialist rehabilitation for adults across the UK living with neurological conditions resulting from injury, illness, or disease. We are committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, and empowered enabling them to live their best life possible.

Active Neuro has invested heavily in refurbishing the service and implementing state-of-the-art robotic technology, including the Luna EMG Premium and the ExoMotus M4, giving therapists the tools to deliver intensive, goal-orientated rehabilitation tailored to each individual. Here, recovery isn't just about restoring function it's about rebuilding lives, independence, and quality of life.

We support NHS, private, and medicolegal clients, and unlike other services, we are not restricted to short timeframes. This allows for longer‑term, meaningful goal setting, whether that's returning to hobbies, social activities, creative pursuits, or everyday life tasks.

We are also expanding into outpatient pathways, ensuring continuity of care for those who no longer require inpatient rehabilitation, as well as offering support for people from the wider community.

As our Lead Occupational Therapist, you will play a key role in developing this service, helping to shape clinical pathways, introduce innovative approaches, and inspire a multidisciplinary team. We value our therapists' expertise and creativity, offering the freedom to innovate, contribute ideas, and influence service development. You'll also benefit from strong peer support, cross‑site collaboration, and partnerships with organisations like Headway and the Spinal Injuries Association, as well as personalised CPD pathways and the opportunity to attend various conferences and networking events.

If you are passionate about making a tangible difference, driving innovation, and leading a team in a service committed to holistic, person‑centred care, this is your chance to be at the forefront of neurorehabilitation in the UK.

Please note : this advert will close once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

The role :

As our Lead Occupational Therapist, you will :

• Lead and manage the Occupational Therapy team, ensuring effective delivery of the highly specialist Occupational Therapy service
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to plan and prioritise a complex clinical caseload
• Work closely with clients and their family / carers to encourage participation in the therapeutic process
• Provide supervision, teaching, and appraisal for junior occupational therapists, assistants, students and other members of the multi‑disciplinary team
• Contribute to the planning, development, and evaluation of the Occupational Therapy service
• Develop Occupational therapy Treatment programmes in collaboration with clients, carers and other involved professionals (e.g. occupational therapy assistants, support workers) to be carried out as appropriate
• Participating in clinical audit, clinical risk and quality issues, including the management and reporting of incidents
• Ensure a high level of communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in the process of positively supporting and inspiring colleagues within the service to improve standards and quality and to develop professional practice
• Keep people safe from harm and protect their human rights

About you :

• Is HCPC registered
• Brings extensive experience in neurological rehabilitation or related complex care settings
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills, inspiring and motivating a multidisciplinary team
• Is passionate about innovation and delivering outstanding, life‑changing outcomes for our clients
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to :

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Join the

Active Learning Hub

and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities

Benefits Hub

g iving discounts and savings on your weekly shop

Free 24 hour confidential

Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App

to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice

A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension

Access to join a

Medicash Health Plan

for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials like going to the dentist or opticians

We recognise outstanding

Active Behaviours

via the

Active Awards

programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits

Refer a Friend

Scheme

and earn yourself up to

£1500

by recommending someone you know

and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group