Clinical Lead Occupational therapist – Specialist Medicine | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, W12 0HS |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7795396/290-MIC-1993 |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced and inspiring Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy within Specialist medicine at Hammersmith Hospital. This is an exciting senior leadership opportunity within a major London teaching hospital, ideal for an ambitious OT looking to broaden their strategic influence and shape high quality therapy services.
In this pivotal role, you will provide expert clinical and managerial leadership, ensuring safe, effective and patient centred therapy services. Working closely with Therapy Clinical Service Leads, clinical academics, MDT colleagues and operational teams, you will help drive innovation, lead service development and champion evidence based, compassionate care.
You will participate in site leadership calls and provide professional occupational therapy leadership across the Hammersmith Hospital site. You will also oversee the coordination and quality of student practice education within the therapy department as well as overseeing the equipment management.
If you are a forward thinking clinician with a passion for improvement, professional growth and collaborative working, we would love to hear from you.
• Inspire and motivate others to deliver best practice and to continually improve standards in line with the evidence base and national guidelines.
• Provide clinical leadership and influence for planning and service delivery within clinical area of expertise.
• To demonstrate professional skills, standards and experience consistent with a specialist in the field and to ensure/oversee that services provided comply with professional and departmental standards of practice in collaboration with the Clinical service leads /clinical academics and clinical leads.
• Promote and develop a learning environment within area of practice using a collaborative approach.
• To support the development and implementation of a training strategy for area of responsibility in collaboration with team leads/clinical academics, and clinical specialists.
• Support research awareness and activity within the team, in collaboration with the clinical academics and clinical leads in therapies.
• To maintain and enhance skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practise.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview..
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026