Project Lead

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Band 7 Project Manager, Ageing Well Angus

Fixed Term/Secondment 18 months

Are you an innovative Occupational Therapist with a passion for prevention, re-ablement, and helping people live well at home for longer? Do you enjoy leading changes, shaping services, and bringing evidence and lived experience together to design better support for older adults? If so, this could be the role for you.


Angus Health & Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) is seeking a highly skilled Occupational Therapist to take forward a major strategic development: Ageing Well Angus. This is an exciting opportunity to lead transformational work that strengthens prevention, proactive care, community support, and healthy ageing across Angus.


About the Role:

This Band 7 post is a unique blend of Occupational Therapy expertise and project leadership. As Project Manager for Ageing Well Angus, you will:

Lead the development, delivery and evaluation of improvement projects supporting ageing well

Use your OT knowledge of functional cognition, occupation, environment, and enablement to shape strategic priorities

Work closely with people, carers, community partners, frontline teams and managers

Influence service redesign, pathway development and innovation across AHSCP

Provide project governance, planning, risk assessment, and reporting

Facilitate workshops, engagement sessions, co‑design events and stakeholder groups

Champion an occupation‑centered, prevention‑focused approach across health, council and third‑sector partners


The role sits within the Occupational Therapy Service, reporting to the Clinical Lead for OT and working alongside AHP colleagues within health and council OT services, social care, housing, primary care and community partners. We are seeking an OT with the right skills and experience to support the project. Ageing well is fundamentally about participation, purpose, routines, roles and independence and functional cognition, environmental fit, adaptations and enablement are central to maintaining wellbeing. OT brings a distinctive lens to prevention, risk enablement, and designing pathways that reflect people’s real‑world functional abilities. OT skills ensure service change is grounded in what genuinely helps people live well at home. Your professional reasoning will help shape strategy, redesign services, and influence decision‑making right across the system.


About You:

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist who:

Has significant clinical experience with adults and older people

Understands the physical, cognitive and psychosocial dimensions of ageing

Has confidence in analysing occupation, function, environment and risk

Has experience in service improvement, redesign or transformation

Communicates with clarity, influence and credibility

Enjoys collaborative work and creative thinking

Is passionate about prevention, proactive care and reducing health inequalities

Project or improvement training (QI, PRINCE2, Lean) is welcome but not essential — support will be provided.


What We Offer:

Opportunity to lead a high‑profile strategic programme

Supportive OT leadership and AHP network

Strong culture of innovation, quality improvement and partnership working

Career development in project management, population health and strategic influence

Hybrid working where appropriate, with flexibility around bases across Angus


Apply Now:

If you are an Occupational Therapist who wants to shape the future of ageing well in Angus, we would love to hear from you.

Informal enquiries to: Allison Taylor, OT Team Manager TaylorAJ@angus.gov.uk or Susan Petrie, OT Clinical Lead susan.petrie2@nhs.scot

Hours of work are: 37 (part-time would be considered)

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