Children's Occupational Therapy Team Lead

Are you someone with extensive children's occupational therapy experience and looking for a new challenge in leadership and management? This opportunity might be right for you!

The Team Lead will manage a cross-site team of occupational therapists and technical instructors in an operational role. They will carry out supervision, appraisals, HR tasks and staff/service development as appropriate. They will also act as a link between the team and Service Lead to ensure delivery of high quality, patient centred and outcome focused occupational therapy service within Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

This role also involves a close collaboration with Clinical Leads and other Team Leads (SLT and PT) within Children's Therapy to promote an ethos of continuous development and joint working.

Our ideal candidate is highly motivated and enthusiastic about children's occupational therapy with a strong focus on supporting a team to provide high quality care. We are looking for someone who will role model good practice, provide clinical expertise and good leadership., The Children's Occupational Therapy team leader will work with the Children's Therapy Service Lead to ensure delivery of a high quality, patient centred, and outcome focussed Physiotherapy service within Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

The Team Lead will manage a cross-site team of Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors in an operational role. They will carry out supervisions, appraisals, HR tasks and staff/service development as appropriate. They will also act as a link between the team and Service Lead and will role model good practice, clinical expertise and provide good leadership.

This role also involves a close collaboration with clinical leads and other team leads (Speech and Language Therapy and Physiotherapy) within Childrens Therapy to promote an ethos of continuous development and joint working.

We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.