Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS trust is seeking a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to provide leadership and specialist care in the Adult Neurodevelopmental Service. In this key position, you will assess and innovate services for adults with neurodevelopmental conditions, manage a team, and contribute to strategic improvements. Candidates must have relevant qualifications and experience in mental health or neurodevelopmental fields, with a commitment to quality care and teamwork.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing support services

Qualifications

• Broad experience as a qualified occupational therapist.
• Experience with adults or children with mental health issues.
• Competence in managing complex service users.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape the delivery of specialist neurodevelopmental care.
• Provide expert occupational therapy assessments and interventions.
• Supervise and support OT staff to ensure evidence-based care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Assessment

Team Management

Education

BSc Occupational Therapy

Postgraduate training in mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders

Master level training in clinical/leadership

Job description

Job summary

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Adult Neurodevelopmental Service (Band 7)
Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in leadership? Join our dynamic multidisciplinary team as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering specialist neurodevelopmental care for adults.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to contribute to the diagnostic process, lead service innovation, and champion high-quality occupational therapy interventions within a forward-thinking neurodevelopmental pathway.

Main duties of the job

• Specialist Clinical Role: Provide expert occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and contribute within an MDT to the diagnosis of adults with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., Autism, ADHD).
• Leadership & Development: Lead the strategic planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of occupational therapy services within a multidisciplinary setting.
• Team Management: Supervise and support designated OT staff, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care.
• Service Innovation: Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality improvement, uphold professional standards, and embed values-based approaches across the service.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As this role involves travel to training venues and meetings at other service bases, it is essential that you have access to a car and can travel around the county as required (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Job description
Job responsibilities

As this role involves travel to training venues and meetings at other service bases, it is essential that you have access to a car and can travel around the county as required (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Occupational Therapy (or equivalent).
• Post graduate training in working with adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders,
• Master level training in clinical/leadership (or willingness to work at this level)
• Current Registration with Health and Care Professions Council without restriction.
• Post graduate training/experience in applying Sensory Integration theory to assessment and intervention

Experience

Essential

• Broad range of experience in working as a qualified occupational therapist.
• Significant experience in working in working with either adults or children with mental health concerns and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Competence with service users with complex needs.
• Evidence of effective caseload management.
• Experience of supervising registered and/or non-registered staff.
• Experience with a range of standardised assessments specific to children and young people.
• Experience in competently managing highly complex cases

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Occupational Therapy (or equivalent).
• Post graduate training in working with adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders,
• Master level training in clinical/leadership (or willingness to work at this level)
• Current Registration with Health and Care Professions Council without restriction.
• Post graduate training/experience in applying Sensory Integration theory to assessment and intervention

Experience

Essential

• Broad range of experience in working as a qualified occupational therapist.
• Significant experience in working in working with either adults or children with mental health concerns and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Competence with service users with complex needs.
• Evidence of effective caseload management.
• Experience of supervising registered and/or non-registered staff.
• Experience with a range of standardised assessments specific to children and young people.
• Experience in competently managing highly complex cases

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address

Wayside House

Coventry

CV6 6NY

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