Cheshire East Council’s Occupational Therapy Service is seeking a full-time, experienced, and motivated Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic Moving and Handling team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality care and providing strong clinical leadership within an innovative and supportive service.
As Clinical Lead, you will play a key role in shaping best practice, supporting staff development, and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred moving and handling interventions across the borough. You will hold a complex case load and work collaboratively with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to drive service improvement and maintain high professional standards.
The post is based across the Cheshire East Borough. Cheshire East Council operates a ‘flexible and mobile’ working policy and hybrid working is available, with hubs available within the community and the bases at Delamere House and Macclesfield Town Hall.
About You
- Provide leadership and guidance to team members, supporting day-to-day decision-making and ensuring high standards of practice
- Provide clinical supervision, performance development reviews, and clinical leadership to the moving and handling team
- Manage a complex caseload, undertaking and overseeing assessments and interventions where there are high risk moving and handling needs, safeguarding considerations, or complex environmental and care planning challenges
- Demonstrate exemplary moving and handling knowledge and skills, including proportionate care implementation, training others, and fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement
- Offer expert advice on Care Act responsibilities, Disabled Facilities Grants and assistive technology
- Support colleagues with triage, assessments, and interventions, including guidance on complex cases and risk management
- Work collaboratively with health and social care partners to develop innovative solutions that maintain safety and independence for service users
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation in line with Council policies and professional standards
- HCPC registered Occupational Therapist with substantial experience in health and social care settings.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor, coach, and inspire others.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive, strengths-based approach to care and a sound understanding of a wide range of conditions and their impact on daily living.
- Confidence in working autonomously while promoting collaborative working across multi-disciplinary teams.
This is just a snapshot of some of the exciting things you’ll be doing in role, to find out more about the other key responsibilities of the role please view the attached job description.
In return we are able to offer:
- Enhanced annual leave - Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service
- Purchase of annual leave – Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Flexible working pattern - Enjoy a 37-hour standard full-time work week with the added perks of flexi-time and hybrid/remote working arrangements where possible. Your work-life balance just got a whole lot better
- Salary sacrifice green car scheme - Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There’s no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease
- White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary
- Enhanced public pension - Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
- Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!
- Employee assistance programme - Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life’s challenges, both at work and in your personal life
- Discounted gym membership - Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:
- Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
- Off-Peak Racket Sports
- Athletics Tracks
- Sauna/Steam/Spa
Join us and experience a workplace that truly values and supports you!
Organisation
Cheshire East Council
Location
Crewe, Macclesfield
Job Category
Adults Health and Integration
Salary Min
£41,771 Per Annum
Salary Max
£48,072 Per Annum
Employment Type
Permanent
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
We are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
For further information about the posts: please contact OT practice managers Laura Emmott 07790 564 825 [email protected] or Vicki Russell on 07929664649 [email protected]
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
