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Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead
The closing date is 27 July 2025
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Adult Neurodevelopmental Service (Band 7)
Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in leadership? Join our dynamic multidisciplinary team as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering specialist neurodevelopmental care for adults.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to contribute to the diagnostic process, lead service innovation, and champion high-quality occupational therapy interventions within a forward-thinking neurodevelopmental pathway.
Main duties of the job
Specialist Clinical Role: Provide expert occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and contribute within an MDT to the diagnosis of adults with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., Autism, ADHD).
Leadership & Development: Lead the strategic planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of occupational therapy services within a multidisciplinary setting.
Team Management: Supervise and support designated OT staff, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care.
Service Innovation: Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality improvement, uphold professional standards, and embed values-based approaches across the service.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
* generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
* excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
* salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
* discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
* wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
* staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job responsibilities
As this role involves travel to training venues and meetings at other service bases, it is essential that you have access to a car and can travel around the county as required (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Occupational Therapy (or equivalent).
* Post graduate training in working with adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders,
* Master level training in clinical/leadership (or willingness to work at this level)
* Current Registration with Health and Care Professions Council without restriction.
* Post graduate training/experience in applying Sensory Integration theory to assessment and intervention
Experience
* Broad range of experience in working as a qualified occupational therapist.
* Significant experience in working in working with either adults or children with mental health concerns and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
* Competence with service users with complex needs.
* Evidence of effective caseload management.
* Experience of supervising registered and/or non-registered staff.
* Experience with a range of standardised assessments specific to children and young people.
* Experience in competently managing highly complex cases
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.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working
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