Occupational Therapy Team Lead (Inpatient AHP/OT)

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking an Occupational Therapy Team Lead to manage and provide leadership for the AHP team in inpatient services. The role involves delivering high-quality occupational therapy, contributing to multi-disciplinary decision-making, and ensuring the development of the team. An ideal candidate will have a degree in Occupational Therapy, significant relevant experience, and excellent communication skills. This is a full-time position based in Wolverhampton.

Qualifications

• Documented evidence of continuing practice development.
• Extensive experience as a band 6/7 occupational therapist in relevant clinical fields.
• Significant experience in multi-disciplinary working.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and operational management to the AHP Therapy team.
• Deliver complex occupational therapy assessments and interventions.
• Contribute to overall management of mental health services.

Skills

Excellent communication and team working skills

Good awareness of risk management

Excellent time management

Professional conduct

Education

Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy

Masters level qualification or relevant clinical experience

Tools

Knowledge of occupational therapy practice

Understanding of statutory and legal frameworks

Job description

Go back Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapy Team Lead (Inpatient AHP/OT)

The closing date is 17 November 2025

Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leader (Inpatient AHP/OT)

Adult Urgent Care Mental Health Services - Penn Hospital

Adult Mental Health Division

37.5 hours per week

Working alongside Allied Health Professional staff you will contribute to the delivery and management of Adult Inpatient Therapy services. This will include ensuring the delivery of Occupational Therapy and AHP assessments, individualised treatment programmes and group work in our inpatient settings in line with the Model of Human Occupation and Recovery Model. Sitting within the Adult urgent care inpatient AHP team, you will be a highly valued member of the multi‑disciplinary team and actively involved in MDT decision making processes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and operational management to the AHP Therapy team within Wolverhampton adult inpatient localities with the ability and enthusiasm to work across the Black Country. These teams are based within Penn Hospital, and Heath Lane MacArthur unit. There has been a substantial investment in inpatient AHP services as the trust is committed to providing a high‑quality therapeutic service.

Successful applicants will have excellent communication and team working skills; have a good awareness of risk and managing risk; have excellent time management and professional conduct. This role will facilitate your professional development and equip you with range of leadership skills. You will be supported by regular clinical and management supervision, ongoing CPD opportunities and encouraged to contribute to the development of the wider adult mental health allied health professional services.

About us

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult And Older Adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• CAMHS

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Job responsibilities

This post offers you an opportunity to extend your knowledge, skills and development within this rewarding leadership role at a time of transformation of inpatient mental health services. As an Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Band 7 you will contribute to the operational and professional leadership of AHP colleagues, including support workers, Physiotherapist and Speech and Language therapists within inpatient adult mental health services across Sandwell inpatient.

The post holder will be a key member of the Mental Health Services Clinical and Management Team and will contribute to the overall management of those services. As an Occupational Therapy Team lead you will be responsible to the Service Manager and AHP Lead for Adult Mental Health, having designated responsibility for professional leadership and co‑ordination of the AHP team as well as delivering complex occupational therapy assessments and interventions to Adults within inpatient services.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Masters level qualification relevant to post or relevant masters level clinical experience

Experience

• Documented evidence of continuing practice development.
• Evidence of self‑directed learning.
• Significant experience as a band 6/7 occupational therapist in a relevant clinical field or fields, including extensive mental health experience.
• Extensive experience of supervision, appraisal and development of occupational therapy staff and students.
• Significant experience of multi‑disciplinary working including development of effective networks/partnerships.
• Active participation in audit, service evaluation and research in relevant clinical field.
• Experience of involvement in quality improvement or service developments.

Knowledge

• Excellent working knowledge of occupational therapy practice in adult/ older adult mental health settings.
• Thorough knowledge of statutory and legal frameworks within which mental health services operate.
• Effective working knowledge of health and social care policy, including the social care context of mental health services.
• Thorough knowledge of the current management of mental health services.

Education / Qualifications

• HCPC Registration

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.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust