Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Orthopaedics

NHS; Bath; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare foundation is seeking an Occupational Therapy Team Lead for Orthopaedics. This role involves improving service delivery, providing specialized patient care, and leading a team of therapists. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership experience and a passion for patient-centred care.

Benefits

Ongoing training opportunities

Wellbeing support program

Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy is essential.
• Must have HCPC registration and current CPD.
• Experience of supervising more junior staff/students is required.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists.
• Improve patient experience and safety as part of service improvement projects.
• Provide highly specialist input within the team.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of broad range of conditions

Ability to supervise junior staff

Strong communication skills

Experience in audit and quality issues

Education

Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Membership of the RCOT

Job description

Go back Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Orthopaedics

The closing date is 09 July 2025

We are on a mission to improve the responsiveness and proactivity of our therapy services at the RUH. We are looking for someone who is passionate about acute Occupational Therapy in the orthopaedic setting to help us improve key aspects of our hip fracture and elective orthopaedic service.

As well as service improvement this role includes leading a team of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists as well as contributing to the wider function of the Adult Therapies Department.

Main duties of the job

Demonstrable leadership experience at band 6 or equivalent is required as a minimum for this post. The successful applicant will need excellent communications skills and will need to demonstrate suitable knowledge and experience in this specialty, enabling them to work autonomously at a high level, and to provide highly specialist input within the team.

Supervision of band 6 and band 5 Occupational Therapists as well as Physiotherapists will form a key aspect of this role. Alongside the leadership aspect of this position, clinical expertise will be nurtured and developed with specialty training as required. We are looking for a keen clinician who will strive to improve the patient experience as well as ensure the safety and well-being of our staff by way of service improvement projects.

Working hours are spread from Monday-Sunday, as part of the commitment to our 7-day service, enabling a varied and flexible working week. As part of our commitment to you and your career development, we provide ongoing training opportunities both in-house and externally.

About us

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in thetop 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

• Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration
• Relevant examples of CPD within the past 12 months
• Membership of the RCOT
• Member of special interest group

Knowledge & experience

• Advanced knowledge of broad range of conditions in specialist area such as bracing, single handed care or complex delirium post surgery
• Experience of working as part of an Occupational Therapy team and/or multi-disciplinary team within orthopedic setting
• Involvement in relevant audit, research and understanding quality issues
• Experience of supervising more junior staff/students
• Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures such as hip fracture database
• Knowledge of the workings of community therapy services and intermediate care services

Values

• Treats everyone as an individual
• motivated and proactive / shows initiative
• open to change and willing to learn

Specific skills

• To be able to present information, written or orally, in a clear and logical manner and keep accurate and legible patient notes
• To understand clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit

Physical skills and emotional effort

• To carry out assessments and treatments of patients for several periods with moderate to intense physical effort whilst carrying out concurrent activities
• To have experience of working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
• To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility
• To be able to frequently care for critically/terminally/ chronically ill patients and deal with distressing and difficult circumstances often giving unwelcome news regarding limited expectations from rehabilitation
• To be able to work alone in domiciliary settings and during the on-call service, assessing and managing risk

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.

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearpro rata, per annum