Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 444-7302596A-LD
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wayside House
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
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Job overview
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist – Adult Neurodevelopmental Service (Band 7)
Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in leadership? Join our dynamic multidisciplinary team as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering specialist neurodevelopmental care for adults.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to contribute to the diagnostic process, lead service innovation, and champion high-quality occupational therapy interventions within a forward-thinking neurodevelopmental pathway.
Main duties of the job
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Specialist Clinical Role: Provide expert occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and contribute within an MDT to the diagnosis of adults with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., Autism, ADHD).
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Leadership & Development: Lead the strategic planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of occupational therapy services within a multidisciplinary setting.
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Team Management: Supervise and support designated OT staff, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care.
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Service Innovation: Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality improvement, uphold professional standards, and embed values-based approaches across the service.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As this role involves travel to training venues and meetings at other service bases, it is essential that you have access to a car and can travel around the county as required (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Occupational Therapy (or equivalent).
- Post graduate training in working with adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders,
- Master level training in clinical/leadership (or willingness to work at this level)
- Current Registration with Health and Care Professions Council without restriction.
- Post graduate training/experience in applying Sensory Integration theory to assessment and intervention
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience in working as a qualified occupational therapist.
- Significant experience in working in working with either adults or children with mental health concerns and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Competence with service users with complex needs.
- Evidence of effective caseload management.
- Experience of supervising registered and/or non-registered staff.
- Experience with a range of standardised assessments specific to children and young people.
- Experience in competently managing highly complex cases
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Whitley
- Job title
- Team Lead and Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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