Active Neuro
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
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About the Role
Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with specialist neurological rehabilitation experience looking for the opportunity to play a key role in shaping and developing a brand-new specialist rehabilitation service?
About the Service
Active Neuro Manchester is an exciting new specialist rehabilitation service preparing to open, providing rehabilitation for people with neurological conditions, spinal injuries and polytrauma.
About the Role
We are looking for a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join us at this formative stage and play a pivotal role in establishing the occupational therapy service, supporting the development of the wider clinical team and helping to embed a culture of high-quality, evidence-based rehabilitation from the outset.
This is a unique opportunity to help build a clinical service rather than inherit one. Working closely with our wider clinical and operational leadership teams, you will help shape the occupational therapy provision at Active Neuro Manchester, contributing to service development, clinical pathways, quality improvement and the delivery of excellent outcomes for our clients.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical and professional leadership to the occupational therapy service.
- Ensure the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based and person-centred neurological rehabilitation.
- Maintain your own clinical caseload while providing specialist assessment, advice and treatment.
- Play an important role in ensuring consistency and quality across assessment, rehabilitation planning, goal setting, outcome measurement and clinical documentation.
- Support and develop the occupational therapy team.
- Provide clinical supervision, guidance, training and mentorship to junior therapists, Therapy Assistants and students as appropriate.
- Contribute to team meetings, client reviews and service development.
- Help establish collaborative ways of working across the service.
About You
- Combine strong clinical expertise with clinical leadership and a passion for service development.
- Have significant experience within neurological rehabilitation.
- Be confident working autonomously with complex clients.
- Have experience supporting or supervising other clinicians.
- Be committed to evidence-based practice, outcome measurement and continuous professional development.
- Be able to share your knowledge and positively influence the wider team.
- Thrive in a new and developing environment.
- Have the ability to work collaboratively, identify opportunities for improvement and contribute to the development of new ways of working.
- Be committed to creating a high-quality experience for clients, their families and the wider multidisciplinary team.
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What We Offer
For the right person, this is an opportunity to have a genuine impact: to help establish a new occupational therapy service, shape its clinical approach and culture, and contribute to the development of Active Neuro Manchester as a leading specialist rehabilitation provider in the region.
If you are an ambitious and experienced Occupational Therapist who is excited by the opportunity to help create, develop and lead something new, we would love to hear from you.
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