Specialist Occupational Therapist

Active Care Group Recruitment; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading independent provider in neuro and mental healthcare as a Specialist Occupational Therapist in Nottingham. Part of a groundbreaking team, you'll deliver innovative, tech-enabled neurorehabilitation for individuals with complex neurological needs. Your role will encompass clinical leadership, team support, and the integration of advanced rehabilitation technologies, ensuring exceptional patient outcomes.

Benefits

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Active Learning Hub development opportunities

Active Reward App for discounts

Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Aegon 5% matched pension

Medicash Health Plan access

Active Awards recognition

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in neurorehabilitation or complex care.
• Advanced clinical reasoning and person-centred practice...
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based occupational therapy interventions.
• Provide expert clinical leadership within the OT service.
• Engage in service-wide quality improvement projects.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Leadership

Team collaboration

Innovation

Education

HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist

Job description

Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to lead, inspire, and transform lives?

Be part of something groundbreaking. Active Neuro— the soon to be launched, specialist division of Active Care Group—is at the forefront of redefining neurorehabilitation in the UK and we’re currently seeking two skilled and compassionate Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic team at Nottingham Brain Injury and Neurological Care Centre.

These are key roles, offering the chance to shape and influence a service designed to deliver truly integrated, technology-enabled, and outcome-driven neurorehabilitation for individuals with acquired and traumatic brain injury and complex neurological conditions.

About Active Neuro

Active Neuro is redefining specialist care for individuals with acquired and traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and complex neurological conditions. With significant investment across our services, we are combining clinical excellence, advanced rehabilitation technology, and a 24/7 therapeutic model to create the most advanced neurorehabilitation pathway in the UK.

Our approach goes beyond therapy hours—every interaction is therapy. From rapid pre-admission planning and structured inpatient programmes to coordinated post-discharge support, Active Neuro ensures every stage of the patient journey is consistent, personalised, and outcome focused.

At the heart of this model is our comprehensive Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), which includes consultants, nurses, therapists, psychologists, and rehab assistants. This team works together to deliver individualised, goal-driven care, supported by shared outcome measures and real-time insights from our rehabilitation robotics and smart therapy technologies. Our clinicians are empowered to lead change, embed innovation, and ensure rehab is not just delivered, but lived—24 hours a day.

Active Neuro proudly supports both NHS ICB-funded and private patients, offering rehabilitation for a broad range of neurological presentations and complexities.

We’re not just expanding capacity—we’re setting a new benchmark for rehabilitation outcomes, patient experience, and clinical excellence. If you want to be a part of this exciting journey, apply now!

Please note - this advert will close once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

The role:

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions for individuals with complex neurological needs.
• Provide expert clinical leadership within the OT service and actively contribute to innovation and development across the wider MDT.
• Support junior therapists through supervision, mentoring, and professional development.
• Engage with service-wide quality improvement projects, outcome measurement, and clinical governance.
• Help embed the use of specialist rehabilitation technologies into daily practice, aligned with our 24-hour rehab model.
• Keep people safe from harm and protect their human rights.

About you:

For this role, you'll need:

• HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
• Significant post-registration experience in neurorehabilitation or complex care (including ABI/TBI)
• Advanced clinical reasoning and person-centred practice
• Strong leadership and team collaboration skills
• A passion for innovation and service improvement
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group