Occupational Therapy Team Lead (Medicine) | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapy Team Lead to join their Medicine team at Frimley Park Hospital. This role involves leading a specialized team, ensuring top-class patient care in an acute setting. Candidates should have experience in fast-paced environments and a passion for developing a skilled workforce. The position offers excellent growth opportunities, a supportive culture, and the chance to impact the future of Occupational Therapy within the Trust.

Benefits

Excellent training opportunities

Peer support and multi-professional leadership programmes

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience leading a dynamic team in an acute hospital setting.
• Passion for patient-centered care and improving service delivery.
• Ability to adapt and respond to challenges in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Medical Occupational Therapy Service at Frimley Park Hospital.
• Develop a strong and skilled workforce within the medical directorate.
• Collaborate with clinical specialists and peers to enhance department effectiveness.

Skills

Leadership in healthcare

Clinical focus in occupational therapy

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Experience in acute settings

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and forward-thinking Occupational Therapy Team Lead to join our Medicine team at Frimley Park Hospital.

Are you?

• Passionate about top class patient care in the acute setting
• Wanting to make sure care is provided with a belief that every day matters?
• Somebody with experience in the acute setting and like to lead a fast passed pressured team?
• Wanting to build on your current skills and knowledge and expand your leadership skills?
• Wanting to lead a team able to deal with current unprecedented challenges by exploring new ways of working to improve flow and effective service provision?
• Driven to change the narrative of OT within the Trust and our wider communities, to promote and develop a strong workforce now & for future generations?

Do you want?

• To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting?
• To lead a team whilst still keeping a clinical focus?
• To extend your leadership and coaching skills?
• To be challenged professionally and be asked to think outside the box?
• Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
• Develop a robust, motivated, and skilled workforce within our medical directorate (specialities include respiratory, cardiology, older persons medicine and others)?
• Work closely with the clinical specialist band 7 OT in surgery as a part of the team lead role?
• Work with peers to develop a department ready for the future and support of our upcoming colleagues?
• To be a part of the future of OT within the Trust?
• To provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth.
• The post holder will lead and facilitate the Medical Occupational Therapy Service with key roles in the development of a competent, knowledgeable workforce, equipping them to provide high-quality person-centred and evidenced based care

Team culture & support

Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff. We offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

What we can offer

• Excellent advanced learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior OT lead management
• Peer support from a large group of colleagues in the department and cross site
• Multi-professional leadership programmes
• To find about more about the additional things we can offer you are welcome to contact and visit us.

Equal Opportunities

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025.