Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Trust Wide Professional Lead Of Occupational Therapy

The closing date is 24 August 2025

Job summary

Are you ready to advance your career in a senior leadership role as an Occupational Therapist?

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join us as theTrust Wide Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy. This developmental role starts at Band 8a, with the potential to progress to Band 8b.

Key Responsibilities:

Expertise in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities:Utilise your experience to ensure the delivery of high-quality occupational therapy services across all directorates.
Leadership and Strategic Development:Enhance your leadership and strategic thinking skills by providing clinical expertise and overseeing the occupational therapy workforce.
Governance and Safety:Implement and maintain governance structures to ensure safe, effective, and efficient practice for all occupational therapists.
Collaborative Service Delivery:Work closely with the AHP Professional Lead to deliver exceptional services across Communities, Hospitals, Specialist Services, Learning Disabilities, and Children and Young People's Services.

We are proud to deliver occupation specific individual and group therapy programmes such as our Occupation Matters Programme.

Main duties of the job

This role would suit someone who

has experinece in mental health and /or learning disabilities
has a passion for ensuring the delivery of high quality occupational therapy services and who enjoys managing and supporting people to achieve their potential.
who is committed to improving services and maintaining staff well-being.
can think strategically and deliver services in line with the national and local agenda.
is able to oversee transformation work and deliver on complex service development/projects.
is able to take a collective leadership approach, engaging key stalker holders and ensuring that people who use services and their carers/family are at the heart of everything that we do.
who is able to provide professional supervision to the lead and highly specialist occupational therapist across the organisation, along with supervision for occupational therapists within services that do not have a lead occupational therapist attached to them

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements 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.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

04 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,888 to £77,094 a year per annum including fringe HCAS pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-7297544-CORP

Job locations

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road,

Randalls Road,

KT22 7AD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the detailed job description, please refer to uploaded job description. This is in the additional documents section and contains all the relevant information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the detailed job description, please refer to uploaded job description. This is in the additional documents section and contains all the relevant information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oProfessional clinical qualification (BSc or above)
oMasters or equivalent level experience
oLeadership training
oClinical supervision training
Ability to travel across the trust

Experience

Essential

oExtensive post-qualification experience of working as a clinician in a wide variety of clinical settings including specifically Mental health and/or learning disabilities
oExperience of providing leadership within healthcare settings
oHighly developed specialist and advanced knowledge of Occupational Therapy
oExperience of supervising staff, appraisals and addressing performance management issues
oExperience of being involved service transformation and service development
oExperience of delivering highly specialist evidence based and outcome measured interventions across a range of services
oExperience of audits and research to improve practice
oExperience of delivering a range CPD opportunities to the professional group
oExperience of partnership working across organisations
oHighly effective and advanced communications skills
oCompetent in the use of MS Office

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oProfessional clinical qualification (BSc or above)
oMasters or equivalent level experience
oLeadership training
oClinical supervision training
Ability to travel across the trust

Experience

Essential

oExtensive post-qualification experience of working as a clinician in a wide variety of clinical settings including specifically Mental health and/or learning disabilities
oExperience of providing leadership within healthcare settings
oHighly developed specialist and advanced knowledge of Occupational Therapy
oExperience of supervising staff, appraisals and addressing performance management issues
oExperience of being involved service transformation and service development
oExperience of delivering highly specialist evidence based and outcome measured interventions across a range of services
oExperience of audits and research to improve practice
oExperience of delivering a range CPD opportunities to the professional group
oExperience of partnership working across organisations
oHighly effective and advanced communications skills
oCompetent in the use of MS Office

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.