Lead Occupational Therapist - Children & Families

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Lead Occupational Therapist for its client's Children & Families Team at Brent.

As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will play a pivotal role in managing and developing the Social Care Occupational Therapy Service within Brent. This is a highly impactful position where your clinical expertise and leadership will directly influence the quality of support received by children and families across the borough.

• →Lead and manage a team of Social Care Occupational Therapists.
• →Provide regular supervision, guidance, and professional development support.
• →Work directly with children and families to assess needs and deliver expert clinical advice.
• →Recommend appropriate equipment, home adaptations, and environmental modifications that enhance wellbeing and promote independence.
• →Collaborate with multi‑disciplinary teams and external partner agencies to deliver coordinated, child‑focused interventions.
• →Contribute to improved outcomes for some of Brent’s most vulnerable young residents.

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Experience working with children with disabilities within Social Care.
• Strong assessment and clinical reasoning skills.
• The ability to lead, inspire, and support a team of Occupational Therapists.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work across service boundaries.
• A child‑centred approach and a commitment to delivering high‑quality, strengths‑based support.

• → Free DBS and compliance service
• →Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• →Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• →Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• →Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• →Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• →“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• →“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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