Surrey Downs Health & Care Partnership
Team Lead Occupational Therapist

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Team Lead Occupational Therapist
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Stroke and Neurology Service as a Team Lead Occupational Therapist. This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician with a strong background in stroke and neurological rehabilitation who is ready to take the next step in their leadership journey.
Role Overview
Working across acute stroke services and community stroke outreach, you will manage a varied caseload of patients with complex stroke and neurological conditions, supporting them through assessment, rehabilitation, discharge planning and recovery. You will work closely with a highly skilled stroke multidisciplinary team.
Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will provide professional leadership and supervision to occupational therapists, assistants and students, helping to develop staff, drive service improvement and promote evidence-based practice. The role offers opportunities to lead audits, quality improvement projects and service development initiatives across the stroke and neuro pathway.
You will be supported by the 8a Occupational Therapy Lead, who will provide professional leadership and supervision, alongside opportunities to develop your clinical, leadership and service improvement skills within the wider stroke and neurology pathway.
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Responsibilities
As a Community Neuro OT Team Lead, You Will
- Lead complex caseloads: Manage and prioritise a diverse and highly complex caseload of neurological patients across community settings, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
- Deliver specialist assessments and interventions: Conduct advanced occupational therapy assessments and interventions in various community venues, including patients' homes and care homes, aligning with individual needs and risk factors.
- Ensure professional accountability and quality: Maintain professional and legal accountability for your clinical work, adhering to all relevant policies and professional standards. You will also monitor and support the quality of practice within the team.
- Apply advanced clinical reasoning: Utilise advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to develop and implement personalized, goal-oriented treatment plans, incorporating therapeutic options, assistive equipment, environmental adaptations, and care services.
About Surrey Downs Health and Care
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.


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Our Partners
- The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey County Council
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Evelyn Umukoro
- Job title: Operations Manager
- Email address: e.umukoro@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07887 585 705
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