Main area Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Community Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 310-MOPAC-7345762

Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Community Rehabilitation Service (base to be agreed) Town Peterborough Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/08/2025 23:59

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Community

Band 7

Job overview

Exciting Opportunity: Part-Time Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (OT)

Location:Flexible across Huntingdon and Peterborough Locality (base negotiable)

In this leadership role, you’ll oversee a dedicated community-based therapy team, delivering high-quality rehabilitation services. You’ll work closely with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, and collaborate with Nursing and Mental Health professionals to ensure holistic care.

This position offers a fantastic chance to utilise your advanced clinical, managerial, and community-based skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Key Requirements:

• Ability to travel independently across the county, meeting time-sensitive service needs.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle (public transport is not suitable for this role).
• Strong teamwork ethic, accountability, and resilience under pressure.

We welcome applications from professionals who are ready to bring energy, expertise, and leadership to our team.

Note: For information on overseas driving licence eligibility, please refer to the DVLA website.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who can work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi professional Community Therapy team to provide a high standard of care to our patients.

This role will complement the existing Clinical Lead Occupational Therapists in the locality, to provide clinical leadership to all clinicians delivering Occupational Therapy interventions as well as providing resilience in managing the throughput, allocations and staff across the locality.

The service includes assessing, planning and developing specialist Occupational Therapist programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex needs. Clinicians are responsible for their own caseload, prioritising referrals according to clinical need, signposting appropriately and undertaking assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using advanced, specialist clinical reasoning skills.

This role is crucial in providing clinical expertise and mentorship so that all registered clinicians can provide a high-quality standard of care.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• You will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own and delegated work and work within codes of practice and professional guidelines. You will be required to undertake holistic assessments (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of specialist clinical reasoning skills. Your role includes providing specialist advice to all members of the team, service users and appropriate others, of changes involving current care plans, patients' progress and other relevant matters that pertain to the care of the patient, promoting independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• You will use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate; conduct risk assessments and health and safety assessments and immediately report any changes/newly identified risks. You will be expected to organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately. You will be actively involved in the development of the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Community Rehabilitation Service and the model of care.
• To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g., hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems, and pain. In doing this you will establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with patients, carers, colleagues, and other health care professionals, identifying when to refer into other services as appropriate. You will attend MDT Case reviews as required. This will enable you to assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Staff development within CPFT is highly valued and you will be supported to attend relevant internal and external courses to develop your knowledge and skills to improve clinical practice as identified as part of your Appraisal process.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent, e.g. BSc, MSc or Diploma entry level qualification in the OT profession
• Current HCPC registration
• Theoretical study and experience within a community setting to master’s level or equivalent.
• Member of RCOT
• Management/Leadership qualification and experience

Experience

• Significant relevant postgraduate clinical experience in a variety of settings including community
• Advanced understanding of clinical conditions and clinical experience in managing long-term conditions
• Implementing change
• Clinical Supervisor
• Specialist knowledge of a broad range of OT client groups.

Skills and Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provisions.
• Advanced communication skills.
• Able to assess, plan and implement care
• Support Therapy Assistants and professional staff
• Time management and prioritisation skills
• Understanding of clinical supervision
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.
• Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
• Understands the principle of confidentiality
• Responsible for maintaining registration with HCPC and/or other professional bodies
• Knowledge of relevant outcome measures
• SystmOne

Physical Requirements

• The ability to kneel, bend & stoop and work in cramped environments
• The ability to move and manoeuvre people and equipment
• The ability to manoeuvre patients using moving and handling aids
• Travel around work base locally

Other

• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
• Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
• Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
• Shows respect for others' feelings, views and circumstances
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so.
• Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Mrs Hayley Litchfield Job title Area Therapy Manager - Hunts & Peterborough Email address hayley.litchfield@cpft.nhs.uk Telephone number 07973 644188