Service Lead, Occupational Therapy, Bexley Children’s Therapies | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	04 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£61,631 - £68,623 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	03 September 2025
Location:	Sidcup, DA14 6LF
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7385444/277-7385444-CYP

Summary

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead a Children's Occupational Therapy team? If so, come and join Bexley Children’s Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service!

The Service Lead for Occupational Therapy will provide strategic, professional and clinical leadership to the Bexley Children’s Therapies service and will be responsible for leading on service delivery and clinical supervision of colleagues ensuring safe, responsive and effective specialist OT clinical interventions. You will have well-developed clinical specialisms and a proven track record in planning and delivering services as well as contributing to service- level strategic and operational planning.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organisation, with established values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care. Located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting.

For more information about the position, please call Paula Johnson, Ops Manager for Bexley Therapies/Music Therapy (mob 07771 988477).

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

The Service Lead for Occupational Therapy (OT) will work jointly with the Service Lead for Physiotherapy (PT) to provide strategic, professional and clinical leadership to the Bexley Children’s OT and Physio service. The post holder will retain an active clinical role, to include a clinical caseload within Bexley Children’s OT service (0.5wte).

The post holder will be responsible for leading on service delivery and clinical supervision of colleagues ensuring safe, responsive and effective specialist OT clinical interventions.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

· To be responsible for the professional leadership, planning and delivery of Children’s Specialist Children’s OT services across Bexley

· To work jointly with the Service Lead for Physiotherapy to provide strategic professional and clinical leadership to the Bexley Children’s OT and PT service

· To work jointly with the Service Lead for PT to provide operational management for the Bexley Children’s PT and OT service

· To be a key member of the Bexley Children’s OT and PT leadership team and contribute/lead on strategic developments and service improvement initiatives

· To provide professional leadership and clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists/Assistants in the service

· To maintain and monitor external contract data and provide regular reports to the Head of Bexley Therapies

· To deputise for Head of Children’s Therapies, Bexley as appropriate

· To deputise for Bexley PT Lead in absence e.g. oversee the day-to-day management of the service

· To manage a complex clinical caseload

· To lead on the development of best available evidence-based OT practice

· To provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work

· To lead on service and policy development


This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025

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