Professional Team Lead

NHS; Frimley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Frimley seeks a Band 7 Community Occupational Therapy Team Lead to provide expert clinical leadership. You'll manage a complex caseload, support long-term recovery for patients, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. This role requires a registered professional with advanced clinical skills and leadership experience. The position offers an annual salary of £50,008 to £56,908 and a commitment to work-life balance and flexible arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Registered in relevant profession (Physiotherapist, OT, or Nurse).
• Specialist knowledge of managing complex recovery needs.
• Clinical experience in various care sectors including community.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership in community services.
• Manage complex caseloads and ensure high standards of rehab.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient recovery.

Skills

Advanced clinical skills

Leadership

Team collaboration

Community care management

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Nursing

Master's degree

Job description

Are you an experienced clinician ready to lead and inspire?

Join us as a Band 7 Community Occupational Therapy Team Lead at Fleet Community Hospital, where you'll provide expert clinical and professional leadership within our Community Bridging Service. In this pivotal role, you'll manage a small, complex caseload, support recovery for patients with long-term conditions, and drive service development in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.

We're seeking a registered professional (Physiotherapist, OT, or Nurse) with advanced clinical skills, a passion for high standards, and proven leadership experience. If you thrive on making a difference, value collaborative working, and are committed to delivering outstanding care in a dynamic community setting, we want to hear from you

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert clinical leadership within community services and the wider Integrated Care Teams as appropriate to provide high standards of rehab, recovery advice and input to patients to avoid unnecessary admission to secondary care.
• Undertake professional leadership role in the community. Act as a clinical exemplar within the team and locality.
• Working with partners in primary, secondary and social care to support an enhanced recovery model which works in partnership with ICTs and complex case management.
• To act as an autonomous clinician accountable for both your own and all delegated clinical tasks.
• Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development of service strategy and clinical standard operating procedures.
• Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of community therapies.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

You can read more about the key tasks and responsibilities associated with this role in the job description attached with this advert, including the administrative and organisational duties, involvement in social and digital media development and monitoring and forward planning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification e.g. registered Physiotherapist. OT or nurse. Educated to degree level
• Educated to master's level.

Knowledge

• Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex recovery needs and long term/chronic disease management.
• Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments.
• Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues.
• Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting.
• Clinical experience of different care sectors, eg acute, Adult Services, community.

Experince

• Advanced clinical practice
• Proactively manage complex long-term conditions.
• Knowledge of managing cognitive impairment and mental well being.
• Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence
• Developing highly specialised programmes of recovery, providing advice concerning treatment of patients.

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.

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearper annum incl HCAS