Job Description

Cornwall Council's Disabled Children and Therapy Team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist Team Lead to join our supportive and passionate service. This is an exciting opportunity to shape practice and deliver high-quality occupational therapy that makes a real difference to the lives of disabled children, young people, and their families.

The Service & Team:

The Disabled Children and Therapy Team is a community based service made up of OTs, Social Workers, Disabled Children's Family Workers, Portage workers and Supporting Change in Partnership (SCIP) workers. They all assess children at home, in school and in their short break settings. The OTs will make recommendations for equipment and adaptations in these settings that allow them to achieve their full potential in independence and daily living skills.

The Role

As the Team Lead, you will be expected to:


Provide leadership and professional supervision to a team of occupational therapists. Work collaboratively with social care colleagues, health professionals, education staff, and voluntary agencies to support children and young people with complex needs. Carry a small caseload of children with the most complex needs, with a focus on clinical expertise in housing adaptations, specialist equipment, and promoting independence. Contribute to service development, ensuring our practice remains innovative, child-centred, and evidence-based. Support and develop staff through supervision and training.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.


This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

This is a part time post working 26.25 hours per week. There is some flexibility on these hours but to ensure there is team lead cover throughout the week we are preferably looking for someone to work the end of the week.

What you'll need to succeed:

We are looking for a HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist with:


Significant post-qualification experience, preferably with children and families. Strong leadership and supervision skills, with the ability to inspire and support colleagues. Excellent communication and partnership-working skills. A passion for promoting inclusion, independence, and wellbeing for disabled children.

What you'll get in return:

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.


Our core employee rewards and benefits include:


a competitive salary. a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.


The full role profile is attached here


We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Andrew Berriman OT Lead for Supervision and Development on 07483351207 or andrew.berriman@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process .


Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.