Children's Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 inclusive Outer HCAS pro rata, per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7771201/391-NMUH-7771201 |
Summary
The post holder will provide professional and clinical leadership for the Children's Occupational Therapy service, working in partnership with the Service and Operational Managers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe, effective and child- and family-centred care. They will hold accountability for service delivery within professional standards, leading on clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development across Specialist Children’s Services.
The post holder will manage and support a multidisciplinary Occupational Therapy workforce, ensuring effective deployment of staff and resources to meet service demand, performance targets and waiting time standards. As an autonomous practitioner, they will maintain a highly specialist clinical caseload, offering expert assessment, intervention, second opinions and specialist advice for children and young people with complex needs.
They will lead the development and implementation of evidence-based practice, pathways and guidelines, contribute to multi-agency working across Health, Education and Social Care, and play a key role in workforce development through supervision, appraisal, training and education. The post holder will actively promote a culture of compassionate, inclusive and enabling care in line with Trust values and strategic objectives
The post holder will provide professional, clinical and operational leadership for the Paediatric Occupational Therapy service, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality child- and family-centred care. They will act as an autonomous, highly specialist Occupational Therapist, managing a complex caseload and providing expert assessment, intervention and clinical advice. The post holder will lead on clinical governance, quality assurance, audit and service improvement, ensuring compliance with professional standards, Trust policies and national guidance, while supporting service planning and development in collaboration with Service and Operational Managers. They will line manage and support staff through recruitment, supervision, appraisal and performance management, ensuring effective deployment of staff and resources to meet service demand, waiting time targets and key performance indicators. The role requires strong collaborative working with children, families and multi-agency partners across Health, Education and Social Care, as well as leading and contributing to training, education and professional development across the service.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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For full job details/description and main responsibilities please refer to attached Job description and person specification document
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026