Lead Occupational Therapist

Come and join the one of UK's largest providers of complex care. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

At Woodlands Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, we don’t just deliver therapy — we transform lives. As our Lead Occupational Therapist, you’ll take a key leadership role in a specialist service that supports adults with acquired brain injury and complex neurological conditions. Working as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team (MDT), you’ll lead the way in providing innovative, person-centred rehabilitation that enables people to regain independence, confidence, and a sense of identity.

You won’t just manage a team — you’ll mentor, guide, and inspire. You’ll work directly with patients and their families to co-create meaningful therapy goals, develop complex treatment plans, and ensure every member of your team is empowered to deliver the highest standards of care.

One of our most powerful recent success stories involved a patient whose recovery was transformed by a walking football initiative. This patient, a passionate football fan before his injury, was struggling to re-engage with life. Demonstrating the kind of creativity we truly value, an Occupational Therapist on the team explored alternative therapeutic options. They connected with the York City FC Foundation, which offers walking football sessions nearby. The result? The patient experienced renewed motivation, improved balance and coordination, and — most importantly — a vital reconnection to his community.

This is the kind of life-changing impact you can help make happen every day.

As Lead Occupational Therapist, your vision and clinical expertise will shape how we deliver rehabilitation, embedding truly individualised care that embraces each person’s values, abilities, and aspirations. You’ll lead by example, foster continuous professional growth, and contribute to a culture of innovation, accountability, and compassion.

If you're ready to lead a forward-thinking Occupational Therapy service that changes lives through creativity, compassion and clinical excellence, APPLY NOW!

What you'll be working:

Our standard working hours are 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. However, we understand the importance of a positive work-life balance, and therefore, if you require some flexibility to better suit your personal or professional needs, we encourage you to discuss this with us, and we will do our best to accommodate your preferences where possible.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and manage the Occupational Therapy team, ensuring effective delivery of the highly specialist Occupational Therapy service
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to plan and prioritise a complex clinical caseload
• Work closely with patients and their family/carers to encourage participation in the therapeutic process
• Provide supervision, teaching, and appraisal for junior occupational therapists, assistants, students and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Contribute to the planning, development, and evaluation of the Occupational Therapy service
• Develop Occupational therapy Treatment programmes in collaboration with patients, carers and other involved professionals (e.g. occupational therapy assistants, support workers) to be carried out as appropriate
• Participating in clinical audit, clinical risk and quality issues, including the management and reporting of incidents
• Ensure a high level of communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in the process of positively supporting and inspiring colleagues within the service to improve standards and quality and to develop professional practice
• Keep people safe from harm and protect their human rights

What you'll have:

• HCPC registration
• Extensive experience in neurological rehabilitation or related fields
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a team
• A passion for innovation and a commitment to achieving outstanding patient outcomes
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• Birthday off
• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24-hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group