Specialist Lead Occupational Therapist - Acute | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	02 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£54,320 - £60,981 pa inc HCAS
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 July 2025
Location:	London, W10 6DZ
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7248520/333-J-KC-0868

Summary

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to develop your leadership skills within an Acute Adult health setting?

Following new investment we are excited to offer the opportunity to work as a Specialist Lead Occupational Therapist - Acute,band 7, across two acute wards and one PICU ward. The successful candidate will work as part of an Acute OT Leadership team working alongside the current Band 7, who leads the other two acute wards and PICU within the unit and both roles are supported by the Borough Head OT.

Thepost will be responsible for the OTs and activity coordinators across the three wards: 2.0wte band 6, 1.0wte band 5 and 4.0wte activity co-ordinators. The post manages the 7 day activity rota across the three wards staffed y the activity co-ordinators.

The post is part of the OT leadership team for K&C and has the opportunity to develop new ways of working within the acute services. This is a great opportunity to develop OT services within an acute setting. and build on your own leadership and managerial skills.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.


Please see the job description for full details. An outline is below:
• To provide professional leadership and operational management to Occupational Therapists working in two Adult Acute wards and one PICU.
• The post holder is responsible for OT, Students and activity co-ordinators for their allocated wards and will work jointly with the other band 7 as required.
• As part of the Acute OT Leadership team to lead and contribute in the planning, development and evaluation of the OT service within Acute Adult Mental Health Services in K&C
• To ensure a 7 days activity program is in place, working with other members of the MDT and voluntary and community sector.


St Charles Mental health unit has 4 acute wards and 2 PICU wards, one male and one female. The unit is also home to the Mental health A&E service. The unit is based walking distance from Ladbroke Grove station.

The Acute team will provide you will a friendly welcome and full induction which includes shadowing opportunities and visits to local services.

There are excellent training and development opportunities available within CNWL in addition to local in house CPD opportunities including a fortnightly staff development session.

CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities.

Please see attached job description for full details and don't hesitate to get in touch to find out more about the role. We are excited to offer this new post and opportunity to work alongside an established and supportive acute occupational therapy service.

Please watch our OT recruitment video to find out more about working as an OT in CNWL-

CNWL Occupational Therapy Recruitment (FINAL) on Vimeo




This advert closes on Monday 16 Jun 2025

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