Job overview

Exciting Opportunity: Part-Time Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (OT)

Location: Flexible across Huntingdon and Peterborough Locality (base negotiable)

In this leadership role, you’ll oversee a dedicated community-based therapy team, delivering high-quality rehabilitation services. You’ll work closely with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, and collaborate with Nursing and Mental Health professionals to ensure holistic care.

This position offers a fantastic chance to utilise your advanced clinical, managerial, and community-based skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Key Requirements:

• Ability to travel independently across the county, meeting time-sensitive service needs.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle (public transport is not suitable for this role).
• Strong teamwork ethic, accountability, and resilience under pressure.

We welcome applications from professionals who are ready to bring energy, expertise, and leadership to our team.

Note: For information on overseas driving licence eligibility, please refer to the DVLA website.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who can work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi professional Community Therapy team to provide a high standard of care to our patients.

This role will complement the existing Clinical Lead Occupational Therapists in the locality, to provide clinical leadership to all clinicians delivering Occupational Therapy interventions as well as providing resilience in managing the throughput, allocations and staff across the locality.

The service includes assessing, planning and developing specialist Occupational Therapist programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex needs. Clinicians are responsible for their own caseload, prioritising referrals according to clinical need, signposting appropriately and undertaking assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using advanced, specialist clinical reasoning skills.

This role is crucial in providing clinical expertise and mentorship so that all registered clinicians can provide a high-quality standard of care.  

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, 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. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk