Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2026 |
| Location: | Dagenham , RM8 3HR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9395-26-0254 |
Summary
Main duties of the job To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention. Develop support plans and reports that promote social inclusion, wellbeing, and recovery. To provide strong professional leadership, ensuring that care is planned and delivered to a high standard. Care is evidence based, evaluated regularly, and delivered in a timely manner. To work alongside and deputise for the Service/Team/Professional lead contributing to all aspects of service development, processes, KPI targets, functions, and delivery of care. To attend and participate in team clinical meetings, MDT, and team meetings, sharing the chairing in such meetings alongside team managers with other senior practitioners. To promote and support recovery/social inclusion principles and interventions within the MH&WT, expanding on partnership working with the Borough/Trust enabling opportunities for service users. Facilitate and provide group interventions. To provide support and input to the ISA/Health placement Lead regarding personal budgets and placement reviews. To provide support and participate in Education, Employment and Training (EET) initiatives within the Borough to support services users. Be responsible and accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care, utilising the principles of CPA and Care Management processes. To carry out generic mental health assessments. Carrying a small caseload of complex cases. Assist in leading an integrated health and social care service and promote a culture based on principles of recovery, choice and personalised care, in which service users can expect to be active in decision-making about their care and treatment. To ensure service users’ needs and their carers are central to service delivery and that individual spiritual beliefs, customs, values, and traditions are respected. Promoting and enabling service development and co-production. To ensure that risk assessment / management procedures are implemented including Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Procedures. This includes being able to act as Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) in Safeguarding cases and having the ability to oversee and make appropriate decisions. To assess and monitor service users mental state, including risk assessment, and management of risk. To undertake carer’s assessments and provide intervention and services as appropriate. Promote effective multi-disciplinary team working practices and provide advice/support to other MDT members. Education and teaching within the community teams and with outside agencies as appropriate.