Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead - Community Hospitals
The closing date is 05 May 2026.
To be the Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead for the Community Hospitals Therapy Team across all 4 sites in LCHS.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership to Occupational Therapists within the Community Hospitals Therapy Team, as well as line management to the wider team. They will work closely with the Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead to coordinate provision of rehabilitation across the Community Hospitals, ensuring a cohesive approach to quality service delivery aligning to LCHS strategic aims. This will involve working in partnership with the AHP Clinical Service Lead, supporting service lines within LCHS and outside agencies such as Adult Social Care, with a view to integrating pathways and ensuring referrals and transfers of care create a seamless and positive patient experience.
The post holder will also benefit from the support of a wider leadership team, collaborating with Clinical Team Leads and the Operational Team Lead for Adult Community Therapy services.
This post requires the post holder to work across the four community hospital sites on a regular basis. The four sites are:
* John Coupland Hospital, Gainsborough
* Louth Community Hospital
* Johnson Community Hospital, Spalding
* Skegness Community Hospital
Main duties of the job
* Provide clinical leadership and management for therapy staff within Community Hospitals.
* Complement the role of Clinical Team Leads on the Ward, undertaking appropriate clinical activity as required.
* Be responsible for performance and target levels as identified by LCHS specifically in relation to Community Hospitals.
* Act as a Clinical Leader, demonstrating consistent good practice, openness, and responsiveness to emerging evidence and commissioning traits.
* Lead in the Case Management model of care and act as Complex Case Manager for an agreed case load of patients with complex needs, ensuring all patients can access all elements of their care plan and that the individual care plans are delivered and progressed by the team.
* Provide complex therapy advice, assessment and treatment to those people being case managed by other members of the identified teams.
* Develop specialist area of expertise and extended scope of practice.
* Develop training packages and documentation to support delivery of high quality care within the service.
* Independently assess patients with more complex specialist needs and their associated requirements for overall service provision and onward referral to other services.
* Ensure a high standard of care for all patients by effective communication with patients, carers, GPs and other health professionals.
Job responsibilities
* Provide effective clinical leadership of the Community Hospitals Therapy Team alongside the Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead, ensuring that capacity and capability is maintained to deliver the contracted service levels.
* Manage the systems that ensure staff shift patterns, sickness absence, training and development plans, performance and appraisals are timely, effective and contribute to operational improvement in the team.
* Understand the dynamics of the team interactions, manage conflict and ensure that effective feedback systems facilitate continuous improvement in the performance of individuals and directly address deficiencies in performance.
* Support the Therapy Team to undertake specialist assessment and treatment that is evidence based within a commissioned framework and agree with patients an individual management and treatment plan using clinical reasoning and utilizing a wide range of treatment skills.
* Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
* Be an active member of the in-service training programmes by attending, delivering and chairing staff meetings, training sessions, external courses and reflective practice.
* Be responsible for the coordination and delivery of the clinical development plan for the Community Hospital Therapy Team Occupational Therapists and ensure where appropriate that this is integrated into the team CPD plan.
* Ensure the quality of record keeping within the team to provide a timely, accurate and informative chronology of clinical assessment, decision making, intervention and evaluation.
* Demonstrate continuous appraisal of personal practice and act on indicators for change.
* Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situations.
* Work in partnership to develop a sustainable integrated health and social care team in the locality, reducing the fragmentation of care and gaps in communication which have a negative impact on the quality of care.
* Computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft applications, System One and other IT programmes that may be applicable.
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent postgraduate diploma in Occupational Therapy.
* Current Health Care Professions Council Registration.
* Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Masters degree level or equivalent.
* Experience to be able to advise own professional group on a range of professional specific subjects.
* Member of a related specialist interest group.
Experience
* Experience of managing highly complex cases.
* Experience in working in the NHS.
* Evidence of leading in areas of team working and/or development.
* Experience in supervision.
* Experience of clinical governance activities.
* Experience of working independently.
* Leading in clinical issues.
* Building partnerships with outside agencies and volunteers.
* Relevant organisational and management skills.
* Advanced clinical reasoning, decision making and diagnostic skills.
* Evidence of clinical leadership.
* Up-to-date knowledge base and Basic IT Skills.
* Ability to critically appraise and evaluate clinical research, reports or papers.
Special Attributes
* Ability to respond and adapt to changes.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Committed to provide a patient focused and centred service.
* Able to work flexibly.
* Able to work across different sites.
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.
Address
Countywide across four Community Hospitals. Base to be negotiated.
Beech House, Witham Park, Waterside South
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Countywide across four Community Hospitals. Base to be negotiated.
Reference number
818-HOS103-QIA2005-B
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