# Band 7 Occupational Therapy Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-occupational-therapy-lead/bf9f3c1a-cc9e-4429-9145-67314976a28e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-occupational-therapy-lead/bf9f3c1a-cc9e-4429-9145-67314976a28e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Wickford - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 32 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-26T12:52:06.971Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Stansted/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapist/Occupational_Therapist-v8112361 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8112361?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Band 7 Occupational Therapy Lead for Neighbourhood Health plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care across community services. This role focuses on collaborative partnership working with primary care, social care, voluntary organisations, and community groups to address the wider determinants of health, including housing, social isolation, and access to meaningful activities. A strong emphasis is placed on early intervention and prevention to support individuals in maintaining independence, reducing hospital admissions, and enhancing overall wellbeing. Through a population health approach, the OT Lead ensures services are tailored to the specific needs of local communities, addressing health inequalities and promoting personalised, strengths-based care that empowers individuals and communities. The post holder is responsible for the effective day-to-day leadership and management of therapy staff and assistant practitioners, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective services. They will provide senior clinical leadership, offering expert advice and support while demonstrating advanced clinical judgement, risk assessment, and decision-making skills. The role requires flexibility, including working across West Essex localities to meet service needs ### Main duties of the job The Band 7 Occupational Therapy Lead role, promoting neighbourhood health involves working collaboratively across community services to support individuals to live well within their local environments. This includes developing strong partnerships with primary care, social care, voluntary sectors and community organisations to address wider determinants of health such as housing, social isolation and access to meaningful activities. A key focus is on early intervention and prevention, enabling people to maintain independence, reduce hospital admissions and improve overall wellbeing. By using a population health approach, the OT Lead ensures services are responsive to the specific needs of the local community, addressing health inequalities and supporting personalised, strengths-based care that empowers individuals and communities to thrive. To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality person-centred services, day to day management and leadership of therapy and assistant practitioners. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills.Flexible working is required, as at times you will be expected to work across sites in our other West Essex localities depending on service needs. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To act as a senior decision maker to guide and support staff with complex patient cases. - To assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatment and care and/or rehabilitation programs to people, promoting independence and autonomy; working within a multidisciplinary team. - Provide expert clinical holistic assessment and evidence based pro-active and reactive health care interventions to support patients and their carers to achieve maximum health welling and independence - To participate in duty clinician cover, triage and MDT/allocation meetings where clinically appropriate. - To act at all times as an advocate for service users, carers and relatives. - To be responsible for standards of care within the service area; to evaluate clinical care and develop actions with relevant line managers where required. - To have overall responsibility for caseload management through continual monitoring and data collection. - To maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate that practice is up to date and evidence based through regular management and clinical supervision/mentorship. - Day to day management and leadership of therapy and at time nursing practitioners and other staff in the multi-disciplinary team. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills. - To delegate day to day clinical duties appropriately to other team members. - To inspire and demonstrate leadership qualities through excellent communication skills, delivery of specialist advice, working with others, demonstration of personal qualities and continuous service improvement. - Act as a role model, provide professional leadership to the team and promote the Trust values. - Actively participate in identifying training needs of self and others and participate in appropriate training programmes. ## Job Details The Band 7 Occupational Therapy Lead for Neighbourhood Health plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care across community services. This role focuses on collaborative partnership working with primary care, social care, voluntary organisations, and community groups to address the wider determinants of health, including housing, social isolation, and access to meaningful activities. A strong emphasis is placed on early intervention and prevention to support individuals in maintaining independence, reducing hospital admissions, and enhancing overall wellbeing. Through a population health approach, the OT Lead ensures services are tailored to the specific needs of local communities, addressing health inequalities and promoting personalised, strengths-based care that empowers individuals and communities. The post holder is responsible for the effective day-to-day leadership and management of therapy staff and assistant practitioners, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective services. They will provide senior clinical leadership, offering expert advice and support while demonstrating advanced clinical judgement, risk assessment, and decision-making skills. The role requires flexibility, including working across West Essex localities to meet service needs ## Job Description The Band 7 Occupational Therapy Lead role, promoting neighbourhood health involves working collaboratively across community services to support individuals to live well within their local environments. This includes developing strong partnerships with primary care, social care, voluntary sectors and community organisations to address wider determinants of health such as housing, social isolation and access to meaningful activities. A key focus is on early intervention and prevention, enabling people to maintain independence, reduce hospital admissions and improve overall wellbeing. By using a population health approach, the OT Lead ensures services are responsive to the specific needs of the local community, addressing health inequalities and supporting personalised, strengths-based care that empowers individuals and communities to thrive. To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality person-centred services, day to day management and leadership of therapy and assistant practitioners. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills.Flexible working is required, as at times you will be expected to work across sites in our other West Essex localities depending on service needs. ## Responsibilities To act as a senior decision maker to guide and support staff with complex patient cases. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatment and care and/or rehabilitation programs to people, promoting independence and autonomy; working within a multidisciplinary team. Provide expert clinical holistic assessment and evidence based pro-active and reactive health care interventions to support patients and their carers to achieve maximum health welling and independence To participate in duty clinician cover, triage and MDT/allocation meetings where clinically appropriate. To act at all times as an advocate for service users, carers and relatives. To be responsible for standards of care within the service area; to evaluate clinical care and develop actions with relevant line managers where required. To have overall responsibility for caseload management through continual monitoring and data collection. To maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate that practice is up to date and evidence based through regular management and clinical supervision/mentorship. Day to day management and leadership of therapy and at time nursing practitioners and other staff in the multi-disciplinary team. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills. To delegate day to day clinical duties appropriately to other team members. To inspire and demonstrate leadership qualities through excellent communication skills, delivery of specialist advice, working with others, demonstration of personal qualities and continuous service improvement. Act as a role model, provide professional leadership to the team and promote the Trust values. Actively participate in identifying training needs of self and others and participate in appropriate training programmes. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (if required for community visits) - Ability to work flexibly across sites to meet service needs ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post-registration experience in a community or integrated care setting - Demonstrable experience of managing complex cases and risk - Experience of supervising, mentoring, or leading staff - Experience of service development or quality improvement - Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams across health and social care **Desirable** - Experience working within neighbourhood or population health models ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist **Desirable** - Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) ### Knowledge and skills **Essential** - Advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making skills - Knowledge of current NHS policies, community care frameworks, and integrated working - Ability to lead, motivate, and support teams **Desirable** - strong organisational and time management skills ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990) - [job description (docx, 900.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10410253) - [person specification (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10410254) - [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853) - [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355) - [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659) - [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.