Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead - Community Hospitals
| Posting date: | 22 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2026 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN5 7JH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9818-26-0044 |
Summary
1. To be responsible for the effective clinical leadership of the Community Hospitals Therapy Team alongside Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead, ensuring that capacity and capability is maintained to deliver the contracted servicelevels.2. To manage the systems that ensure staff shift patterns, sickness absence, training and development plans, performance and appraisals are timely, effective and contribute to operational improvement in the team.3. To understand the dynamics of the team interactions, manage conflict and ensure that effective feedback systems facilitate continuous improvement in the performance of individuals and directly address deficiencies in performance.4. To support the Therapy Team to undertake specialist assessment and treatment that is evidence based within a commissioned framework and agree with patients an individual management and treatment plan using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills.5. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.6. To be an active member of the in-service training programmes by attending, delivering and chairing staff meetings, training sessions, external courses and reflective practice.7. To be responsible for the coordination and delivery of the clinical development plan for the Community Hospital Therapy Team Occupational Therapists and ensure where appropriate that this is integrated into the team CPD plan.8. To ensure the quality of record keeping within the team to provide a timely, accurate and informative chronology of clinical assessment, decision making, intervention and evaluation.9. Demonstrate continuous appraisal of personal practice and act on indicators for change10. Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situations.11. Work in partnership to develop a sustainable integrated health and social care team in the locality, reducing the fragmentation of care and gaps in communication which have a negative impact on the quality of care. This may involve working with Lincolnshire County Council, acute sector and 3rd sector colleagues.12. Computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft applications, System One and other IT programmes that may be applicable.