Highly Specialist Clinical Team Lead OT/Nurse

Job summary

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse with specialist knowledge and experience in eating disorder services, with an interest in clinical leadership and service development?

The Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Programme is an innovative virtual eating disorder service providing specialist, recovery-focused support to adults with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. The service works collaboratively across the provider collaborative, supporting patients across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

The Waterlily team is a dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team which includes a Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Assistant Psychologists, Dietitians, Health Care Support Workers and Peer Support Workers. The team works collaboratively to provide holistic, recovery-focused care, drawing on a range of professional expertise and lived experience to support individuals throughout their treatment journey.

We welcome applications from experienced Registered Nurses and Occupational Therapists who have relevant specialist experience in eating disorder services and are able to demonstrate strong clinical and operational leadership, with a commitment to high quality and person-centred care.

For further information about the role, please see contact details below:

Contact Details:

Isobelle Bird (Clinical Lead)

Isobelle.bird1@nhs.net

0782357874

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership within the Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Programme, ensuring safe, effective, high-quality, person-centred care. Working with multidisciplinary and regional teams, they will support service delivery and development.

Clinical Leadership: Provide expert leadership and clinical oversight of assessment, formulation, risk management, treatment planning and evidence-based interventions. Support the team with complex cases and clinical decision-making. Promote recovery-focused, person-centred care, involving patients and carers in planning and decision-making. Ensure access to supervision, reflective practice and professional development. Manage safeguarding concerns, incidents and appropriate escalation.

Operational Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership, ensuring effective service delivery and resource management. Line manage staff, including supervision, appraisal, performance and development. Support communication, workload management, workforce planning, recruitment and retention. Develop partnerships with eating disorder services and provider collaborative organisations, representing Waterlily at relevant forums. Lead service evaluation and improvement, using audit, data and feedback to inform development. Promote clinical governance, quality, safety and continuous improvement, ensuring compliance with legislation, professional standards, Trust policies and clinical guidance.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Details

• Date posted: 30 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 007463
• Job locations: Bennion Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Glenfield, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 9QP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

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