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Project Lead
About the job Project Lead
Job Title: Project Lead
Job Location: Forfar DD8, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
With effect from 01 April 2026, NHS Scotland is reducing its full-time working week from 37 to 36 hours per week, there will be no change in full time pay.
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, codesign events and stakeholder groups
Champion an occupationcentered, preventionfocused approach across health, council and thirdsector 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 realworld 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 decisionmaking 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 highprofile 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 or Susan Petrie, OT Clinical Lead
Hours of work are: 37 (part-time would be considered)
Current NHS Tayside employees - written approval must be sought from your line manager prior to applying for this secondment. You will be required to bring this if shortlisted for interview.
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.
Additional Information For Candidates
With effect from 01 April 2026, NHS Scotland is reducing its full-time working week from 37 to 36 hours per week, there will be no change in full time pay.
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, codesign events and stakeholder groups
Champion an occupationcentered, preventionfocused approach across health, council and thirdsector 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 realworld 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 decisionmaking 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 highprofile 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 or Susan Petrie, OT Clinical Lead
Hours of work are: 37 (part-time would be considered)
Current NHS Tayside employees - written approval must be sought from your line manager prior to applying for this secondment. You will be required to bring this if shortlisted for interview.
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.
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