Job summary
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
Shape the Future of Rehabilitation: Clinical Occupational Therapy Lead
Are you an expert Occupational Therapist ready to step into a high-profile leadership role where your clinical expertise defines the standard of care?
We are looking for a visionary Clinical Occupational Therapy Lead (Band 8a) to provide expert leadership for our Bedded Rehabilitation services across Hertfordshire. This is a rare opportunity to move beyond daily caseload management and into a role where you facilitate, demonstrate, and promote the very best in modern rehabilitative practice.
Main duties of the job
Why this leadership role is different?
Clinical Expert & Consultant Resource: You won't just be a manager; you will be the clinical "go-to" for complex multi-pathologies. You'll support your team through joint sessions with the most challenging patients, using your advanced judgment to assist others in prioritising and managing complicated conditions.
Service Architecture: You will have a seat at the table with the Head of Service, Clinical Service Manager, and Modern Matron. You won't just follow standards--you will help deliver and monitor them, ensuring our rehab units are centres of excellence.
Culture of Growth: You will be proactive in creating an environment of continuous quality improvement. From arranging formal training sessions to leading reflective appraisals, you will be responsible for the professional growth of our therapy workforce.
Strategic Influence: You will contribute directly to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and strategic service developments, ensuring that patient goals are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are looking for an OT who is:
A Clinical Powerhouse: Significant experience in bedded rehab with the ability to handle the most complex clinical scenarios.
A Natural Leader: Someone who can mentor, inspire, and develop staff at all levels of seniority.
Proactive & Quality-Driven: A professional who isn't satisfied with the status quo and is always looking for ways to streamline or improve internal workflows.
About us
Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Job description
Job responsibilities
** Please refer to the job description, person specification and CLCH trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
** Please refer to the job description, person specification and CLCH trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the HCPC
- Educated to master's degree or equivalent combination of post graduate diploma, short courses and experience
- Evidence of further relevant courses.
- Broad range of clinical experience relevant to the post.
Desirable
- Management training and qualification
- Mentorship course
Experience
Essential
- Has the required level of knowledge of area of specialty, and be able to apply that knowledge, in order to promote the health of the patients.
- Extensive post-registration clinical experience at minimum of Band 7 (AfC) or equivalent
- Extensive experience of assessing and providing care to people with complex and long term conditions.
- Experience in team management including performance management
- Experience of working with a wide range of rehab conditions
- Effectively working in collaboration and negotiating across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of teaching others
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
- Experience of providing evidence-based care.
- Proven ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision
- Experience of initiating and implementing service developments
- Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies and professionals and across organizational boundaries
- Evidence of innovation in practice Evaluation & audit skills
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Desirable
- Range of different posts with varying requirements throughout previous career history
- Experience of Audit & Benchmarking
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information both verbally and in writing with the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy
- Good listening skills
- Leadership skills
- Excellent Clinical & Assessment Skills
- Decision making, problem solving & negotiating skills
- IT literate in the use of Microsoft word, email and a basic understanding of Excel spreadsheets, data recording tools e.g. SystmOne (Patient Activity data and Datix).
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
- Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence
- Ability to adapt to changing needs of service
- Able to manage difficult situations and address poor practice
- Highly effective clinical skills in own professional area and relevant to the assessment and treatment of adults with complex rehabilitation conditions.
- Demonstrates experience in the use of a variety of methods available to deliver appropriate information effectively with both patients and staff.
- Knowledge of the Code of Professional Conduct appropriate to professional background
Desirable
- Theoretical and practical understanding of Change Management, Motivation & Morale and other branches of managerial practice
- Treatment of patients with neurological conditions.
- Research skills
- Ability to measure performance through analysis of a number of data recording methods.
- Experienced presentation skills
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the HCPC
- Educated to master's degree or equivalent combination of post graduate diploma, short courses and experience
- Evidence of further relevant courses.
- Broad range of clinical experience relevant to the post.
Desirable
- Management training and qualification
- Mentorship course
Experience
Essential
- Has the required level of knowledge of area of specialty, and be able to apply that knowledge, in order to promote the health of the patients.
- Extensive post-registration clinical experience at minimum of Band 7 (AfC) or equivalent
- Extensive experience of assessing and providing care to people with complex and long term conditions.
- Experience in team management including performance management
- Experience of working with a wide range of rehab conditions
- Effectively working in collaboration and negotiating across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of teaching others
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
- Experience of providing evidence-based care.
- Proven ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision
- Experience of initiating and implementing service developments
- Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies and professionals and across organizational boundaries
- Evidence of innovation in practice Evaluation & audit skills
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Desirable
- Range of different posts with varying requirements throughout previous career history
- Experience of Audit & Benchmarking
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information both verbally and in writing with the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy
- Good listening skills
- Leadership skills
- Excellent Clinical & Assessment Skills
- Decision making, problem solving & negotiating skills
- IT literate in the use of Microsoft word, email and a basic understanding of Excel spreadsheets, data recording tools e.g. SystmOne (Patient Activity data and Datix).
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
- Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence
- Ability to adapt to changing needs of service
- Able to manage difficult situations and address poor practice
- Highly effective clinical skills in own professional area and relevant to the assessment and treatment of adults with complex rehabilitation conditions.
- Demonstrates experience in the use of a variety of methods available to deliver appropriate information effectively with both patients and staff.
- Knowledge of the Code of Professional Conduct appropriate to professional background
Desirable
- Theoretical and practical understanding of Change Management, Motivation & Morale and other branches of managerial practice
- Treatment of patients with neurological conditions.
- Research skills
- Ability to measure performance through analysis of a number of data recording methods.
- Experienced presentation skills
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
