Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
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Posted: 22/08/2025
- £49390
- Birmingham, West Midlands,
- Permanent
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
£49,390 DOE
Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Birmingham – Covering 4 locations
Meridian Business Support have an exciting opportunity for to join the Senior Management Team as Head of Nursing and Quality across 4 Mental Health services based in Birmingham.
About the role:
Qualifications and experience:
£49,390 DOE
Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Birmingham – Covering 4 locations
Meridian Business Support have an exciting opportunity for to join the Senior Management Team as Head of Nursing and Quality across 4 Mental Health services based in Birmingham.
About the role:
- The successful candidate will provide professional support and leadership to our occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and activity workers who are based across our existing mental health inpatient services in Birmingham.
- The company supports service-users along a recovery pathway using relationship centred, best practice interventions and supports individuals to improve their quality of life whilst working towards their personal goals. Service-user outcomes are measured using recognised assessment tools which allow us to evidence our objective of enabling individuals to move towards living in the least restrictive setting possible.
- You will be responsible for managing the performance of the occupational therapy team, providing professional support and leadership. You will manage a small clinical caseload comprising of service users from across the organisation, completing assessments, intervention and evaluation of treatment. You will also assist the occupational therapy team to plan and deliver a range of occupational therapy assessments and interventions promoting recovery and well-being for our service-users who are at our hospital sites. You will ensure the therapeutic program, including group and individual sessions, is being delivered and evaluated regularly to reflect the needs of the current service-user group.
- The MOHOST is established as the core occupational therapy assessment tool used across the organisation, providing evidence of change and focus on occupation. Additional assessments are completed as led by service-user need.
- You will offer clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team and represent a senior professional voice within the integrated care team. You will work with service-users delivering person-centered care, working with individuals towards community integration, balancing safety and therapeutic risk taking. You will promote recovery principles with the aim of improving quality of life and achieving maximum independence with each service user.
Qualifications and experience:
- You must have HCPC registration to work as an occupational therapist. We are looking for a dynamic individual with a genuine passion for working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses, with a similar enthusiasm for supporting staff to deliver exceptional and innovative services.
- You must be able to work core hours, predominantly 09:00-17:00, with a usual working week of Monday-Friday.
- Competitive salary – in excess of NHS agenda for change pay scales
- ‘Recommend a friend’ payments of up to £500
- Up to 30 day’s annual leave, plus bank holidays (based on length of service)
- Funded sick pay insurance scheme
- Corporate health cash plan
- Freshly prepared evening meals
- Childcare vouchers
- Colleague assistance telephone helpline
- GP consultation service
- Discounted gym membership
- Healthy and enabling staffing levels
- Targeted learning and development
- Structured clinical supervision/reflective practice
- Management supervision/appraisal process
- Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Positive working environment in a service identified by the CQC as Good/Outstanding
- Full and supportive multi-disciplinary team
- Funded DBS
