Occupational Therapy Professional Lead | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	07 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	06 September 2025
Location:	Retford, DN22 0PD
Company:	Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7366776/186-998-25-FS

Summary

Are you looking for something a bit different, a new challenge, a varied role?

We have a rare opportunity to lead the Occupational Therapy team at Rampton Hospital, which is a unique setting, delivering regional and national services.

We are seeking to recruit a Band 8a Occupational Therapy Professional Lead to further develop our fantastic team within the hospital. This post holder will provide strategic oversight of service pathways and delivery to aid recovery and further the patient journey. The post will be split with our existing Band 8a Occupational Therapy Professional Lead on a part time basis, and there may be opportunity to increase hours in the future.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated Professional Lead to join our Occupational Therapy team, in a challenging but rewarding role, to make a difference to the lives of our patients.

Therefore, applicants will need to:

Have excellent interpersonal skills
The ability to work effectively, demonstrating clear leadership as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Be committed to providing the highest standards of care
Promote and maintain high standards of care through excellent communication, motivation, supervision and role modelling

We want to help our staff reach their full potential and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to success. This includes a supportive and strong health and well-being team.

As Occupational Therapy Professional Lead, you will:

Be a highly specialist Occupational Therapist with significant clinical and professional experience
Provide leadership and management for the OT service at Rampton
Provide an in-depth understanding of OT impact across multiple clinical care streams within a team or care unit
Be responsible for oversight of professional and strategic planning to utilise resources as appropriate

You will be required to complete mandatory training to assist your professional development.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Provides a creative outlook and horizon scanning to ensure that the profession delivers services that are as effective as possible, reflecting the needs of the local population and financial resources, now and into the future.

Acts as the Occupational Therapy Professional advisor to Care Unit/Care Group to achieve an effective patient centred service.
Provides clinical and professional leadership for the profession across multiple clinical teams/services/care units

Establishes forums across areas, connecting profession and reducing disenfranchisement and isolation
Represents the profession at agreed forums within the Care Unit, Care Group and Trust wide Professional Advisory Groups

Provides expert professional and specialist advice to the management team and clinicians regarding clinical, professional and service development issues to support transformation, business and clinical governance
Ensures compliance with national standards and implementation within the specialism and profession ensuring consistent delivery of best practice

Challenges clinical practice from a position of professional knowledge and expertise
Provides professional supervision to staff plus clinical and managerial as appropriate.
Acts as a role model, supporting and motivating other's

Undertakes workforce planning, skill mix reviews, staff recruitment and retention analysis.
Leads recruitment of uni-professional staff and improves recruitment and retention through understanding specific local demography and impact on service demand and supply

Assesses, develops, supports and implements programs of care and treatment to meet the complex and specialist needs of the patients.

Promotes multi-disciplinary liaison and collaborative practice within and between services, care units, wider Trust and other agencies.



Education

Ensure staff have appropriate skills, training, supervision and equipment to safely carry out their roles and escalate where this is not the case

Ensure the professional growth and skills through reflective practice, PAD process, appropriate supervision processes, CPD and wider training and Identifies training, resource and development needs.
Responsible for the professional development, supervision and mentoring of registered and non-registered AHP workforce - including opportunities for rotation and apprenticeships

Develops induction and/or preceptorship of staff

Facilitate and evaluate robust and professional student placements, working collaboratively with the HEIs and Trust AHP Practice Learning and Education Facilitator

Provides advice and support as part of HEI revalidation of pre-registration training
Plans, delivers and evaluates learning and development to others, both within uni-professional context and across other professions as appropriate.

Ensures ongoing advice, consultation and education for commissioners, Primary care and other agencies about the role of Occupational Therapy.

Contribute to work of Professional body supporting guidance, body of evidence and examples


This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Aug 2025

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