Job summary
NHS Band 7 Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: full time 37.5 hours (part time and job shares will also be considered.)
Are you ready to lead, inspire and make a real difference?
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy team at Queen Alexandra Hospital.
This is an exciting leadership opportunity for an Occupational Therapist who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a fast-paced acute setting, while also contributing to the development of specialist rehabilitation services.
Join us in delivering outstanding care, every day.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist clinical expertise across a varied orthopaedic caseload, including trauma and complex rehabilitation patients
- Lead and support the day-to-day operational management of the Therapy service
- Contribute to the development of services for spinal cord injury and polytrauma patients, improving pathways and patient outcomes
- Alongside Physiotherapy colleagues, lead on supervision, mentorship and development of Band 5/6 staff, apprentices, support workforce and students
- Contribute to service improvement initiatives, audits, and quality improvement projects
- Ensure delivery of safe, effective discharge planning and rehabilitation pathways
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams including physiotherapists, nurses, consultants, and community services
- Promote evidence-based practice and innovation across the service.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Details
- Date posted: 17 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: REF2350K
- Job locations: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Hampshire, PO6 3LY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
- To provide operational management and professional clinical leadership to the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Team.
- To be accountable for the day-to-day direct delivery of services within a defined clinical area.
- To work with the Physiotherapy Team Lead and Therapy Clinical Specialist and other members of the MDT to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality multi-disciplinary care and positive patient experience.
- Ensure service delivery is evidence-based or follows local / national best practice where evidence base is not available.
- To ensure a competency driven, flexible and responsive workforce.
- To work with senior operational leads, clinical leads and other relevant professionals to drive service development and transformation in line with the Trusts strategic aims.
- To report directly to the 8a on team performance, operational implementation of work streams and service delivery issues/concerns and service development
For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience to meet the scope and authority of the post.
- Evidence of advanced level of practice including in depth experience at band 6 level.
- Supervision of staff/students.
- Leadership, recruitment and selection of staff.
- In individual/group and team work in a variety of relevant settings
- Of research/audit.
- Documented evidence of Continuous Practice Development (CPD)
- Practice innovation.
- Of working with users/carers and external agencies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council).
- BSc in Occupational Therapy
- Significant post-qualification experience in a clinical therapy role, ideally within a Trauma and Orthopaedic setting.
- Proven leadership and management experience in a healthcare environment.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex situations. A commitment to continuous professional development and service improvement.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Operational management and leadership skills
- Supportive, excellent interpersonal skills including ability to communicate clearly both written and oral
- Outstanding leadership skills
- Understand legal responsibilities of your profession, with knowledge of professional and ethical issues in practice
- Ability to build effective working relationships within the Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Knowledge of health and safety issues
- Detailed knowledge of the principles and application of clinical governance including experience of quality issues and audit
- Specialist knowledge and application of assessments, interventions, outcome measures
- Self-motivated, assertive, diplomatic, and tactful.
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