Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead – Community Hospitals
Band 7
Main area Clinical Team Lead Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Service hours 8am-8pm, future need for rota’d “duty” cover til 8pm) Job ref 818-HOS103-QIA2005-C
Site Countywide across four Community Hospitals. Base to be negotiated. Town Lincoln Salary £47,810 – £54,710 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2026 23:59
Job overview
To be the Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead for the Community Hospitals Therapy Team across all 4 sites in LCHS.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership to Occupational Therapists within the Community Hospitals Therapy Team, as well as line management to the wider team. They will work closely with the Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead to coordinate provision of rehabilitation across the Community Hospitals, ensuring a cohesive approach to quality service delivery aligning to LCHS strategic aims. This will involve working in partnership with the AHP Clinical Service Lead, supporting service lines within LCHS and outside agencies such as Adult Social Care, with a view to integrating pathways and ensuring referrals and transfers of care create a seamless and positive patient experience.
The post holder will also benefit from the support of a wider leadership team, collaborating with Clinical Team Leads and the Operational Team Lead for Adult Community Therapy services.
This post requires the post holder to work across the four community hospital sites on a regular basis.
- John Coupland Hospital, Gainsborough
- Louth Community Hospital
- Johnson Community Hospital, Spalding
- Skegness Community Hospital
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership and management for therapy staff within Community Hospitals. To complement the role of Clinical Team Leads on the Ward, undertaking appropriate clinical activity as required. Be responsible for performance and target levels as identified by LCHS specifically in relation to Community Hospitals.
To be a clinical leader, demonstrating consistent good practice, openness, and responsiveness to emerging evidence and commissioning traits. To lead in the Case Management model of care and to act as Complex Case Manager for an agreed case load who have complex needs. As Complex Case Manager to a designated case load the role includes ensuring all patients are able to access all elements of their care plan and to ensure the individual care plans are delivered and progressed by the team.
To provide complex therapy advice, assessment and treatment to those people being case managed by other members of the identified teams. To develop specialist area of expertise and extended scope of practice.
Develop training packages and documentations to support delivery of high quality care within the service.
To independently assess patients with more complex specialist needs and their associated requirements for overall service provision and onward referral to other services.
To ensure a high standard of care for all patients by effective communication with patients, carers, GPs and other health professionals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrate continuous appraisal of personal practice and act on indicators for change.
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situations.
- 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.
- Computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft applications, System One and other IT programmes that may be applicable.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent postgraduate diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Current Health Care Professions Council Registration
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Masters degree level or equivalent
- Is able to demonstrate a breadth of experience and skills to be able to advise own professional group on a range of professional specific subjects
- Member of a related specialist interest group
Experience
- Able to demonstrate breadth of experience and skills to be able to advise own professional group on a range of professional specific subjects
- Experience of managing highly complex cases
- Experience in working in the NHS
- Evidence of leading in areas of team working and/or development
- Experience in supervision
- Experience of clinical governance activities
- Experience of working independently
- Leading in clinical issues
- Building partnerships with outside agencies and volunteers
- Relevant organisational and management skills
- Advanced clinical reasoning, decision making and diagnostic skills.
- Evidence of clinical leadership
- Up-to-date knowledge base and Basic IT Skills
- Ability to critically appraise and evaluate clinical research, reports or papers
Special Attributes
- Ability to respond and adapt to changes
- Ability to work under pressure
- Committed to provide a patient focused and centred service.
- Able to work flexibly
- Able to work across different sites
Additional information
All new employees will be subject to a charge if a DBS check is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by LCHS and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a maximum of a 3 month period.
We are a Disability Confident employer ensuring that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
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