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Regional lead roles
Overview of our regional lead roles
If you have the dedication and the power to champion our profession in your region – you’ll find a role for you. All the roles will work closely with us to help steer your membership body in the right direction.
We're fully committed to equity, diversity and belonging, and to creating a culture where everyone feels seen, valued and able to thrive. We actively welcome the lived experiences, insights and perspectives of our community, recognising that they strengthen our work and shape the future of our profession. If you would like to talk about your potential, share your experiences, or need any support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact the Communities team at [email protected].
Leads, coordinates and champions a RCOT regional network leadership group.
Helps build a thriving network that’s a valuable part of a member’s professional life and shares and celebrates the activities and achievements of a network across RCOT and external communities.
Embeds EDB across networks, their activities and the profession as a whole.
Helps us create a culture where independent practice (all work outside of statutory sectors including private and third sectors) is a natural and valued part of wider occupational therapy practice.
Role profiles
As Regional Network Lead, you’ll lead, coordinate and champion an RCOT regional network.
We estimate Regional network leads will need to commit approximately 10 hours each month.
We’ll work with you in the first year of volunteering to better understand the time commitments required and the support we can provide to reduce unnecessary burdens.
Key skills and attributes
- Passion for the promotion of the profession in the region
- Strong interest in the promotion of the profession within your region.
- Ability to be a thought-leader.
- Strategic and member-centric vision
- Align the network’s activities with the wider priorities, goals and needs of the professional body and occupational therapy workforce in your region.
- Identify opportunities and challenges for the occupational therapy workforce in your region.
- Digital proficiency
- Able to use online communication platforms (for example, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and social media).
- An understanding of how to engage network members through digital channels.
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- A growth mindset.
- Commitment to working collaboratively to find new ways of working.
- A desire to improve through thinking creatively, problem-solving and encouraging innovation.
- Measuring impact
- Confidence in seeking and interpreting data and insights.
- Able to use data to inform decisions and measure outcomes and impact.
- Communication skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to engage diverse audiences.
- Can convey information clearly and foster meaningful dialogue across different channels and formats.
- Able to create and maintain meaningful connections with a range of stakeholders.
- Leadership
- Proven ability to empower and motivate others to collectively deliver an action plan of activities.
- Collaboration
- A team-oriented mindset with the ability to foster community and connections.
- Equity, Diversity and Belonging
- Demonstrates commitment to equity, diversity and belonging, social responsibility and ethical practices.
Key tasks
We expect the role to evolve and grow over time – particularly as new teams and initiatives are formed.
The below is representative of the sort of work you’ll be able to apply your current skills to, or build new ones from.
- Act as a facilitator and advocate, driving engagement and ensuring that the network provides valuable insights, activities, resources, and opportunities to benefit network members across all career levels, practice pillars and employment sectors.
- Be an active member of the ‘network leads forum’ to provide collective leadership across a system of networks, to facilitate consistent, impactful and relevant outcomes across the networks.
- Contribute to the development of a universal year one action plan across the system of regional networks that aligns with strategic vision, goals of our profession and professional body.
- Work with your network leads to understand your members and gain insights which help to facilitate a culture of informed decision making and continuous improvement.
- Lead your network leadership group to develop a network specific action plan based on the needs and priorities of your region and your members.
Ideal opportunity for those looking to
- Engage in new and innovative activities which build community.
- Be a strong advocate and recognised voice for their profession and their professional body.
- Interact with us and work to get people excited about our networks, activities and the opportunities offered.
- Network with other leaders and changemakers across UK occupational therapy and beyond.
As Community Engagement Lead, you’ll play a key role in fostering an active, member-centric community that is a valuable part of a member’s professional life.
We estimate Community Engagement Leads will need to commit approximately 10 hours each month. We’ll work with you in the first year of volunteering to better understand the time commitments required and the support we can provide to reduce unnecessary burdens.
Key skills and attributes
- Passion for building member focused communities
- Strong interest in community engagement.
- Ability to be a thought-leader.
- A champion of innovative ways to foster meaningful engagement.
- Strategic and member-centric vision
- Align the network’s engagement and partnership activities with the wider priorities, goals and needs of the professional body and occupational therapy workforce in your region.
- Focus on growth and value for members, ensuring the community remains relevant, valuable, and impactful.
- Digital proficiency
- Able to use online communication platforms (for example, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and social media).
- An understanding of how to engage network members through digital channels.
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- A growth mindset.
- Commitment to working collaboratively to find new ways of working.
- A desire to improve through thinking creatively, problem-solving and encouraging innovation.
- Measuring impact
- Confidence in seeking and interpreting data and insights.
- Able to use data to inform decisions and measure outcomes and impact.
- Communication skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to engage diverse audiences.
- Can convey information clearly and foster meaningful dialogue across different channels and formats.
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills
- Able to create and maintain meaningful connections with a range of stakeholders.
- Creativity
- Develop creative initiatives to optimise member engagement across a range of member profiles.
- Leadership
- Proven ability to empower and motivate others to collectively deliver an action plan of activities.
- Collaboration
- A team-oriented mindset with the ability to foster community and connections.
- Equity, Diversity and Belonging
- Demonstrates commitment to equity, diversity and belonging, social responsibility and ethical practices.
Key tasks
We expect the role to evolve and grow over time – particularly as new teams and initiatives are formed.
The below is representative of the sort of work you’ll be able to apply your current skills to, or build new ones from.
- Create a welcoming, vibrant, inclusive and engaged community that can and will support you and each other.
- Ensure members feel connected, supported, a sense of belonging and empowered to take part.
- Understand who current and potential network members are and use their insights to inform the design and delivery of activities which drive member engagement, growth and impact.
- Facilitate cross network initiatives.
- Be an advocate by showcasing the positive impact of a network and the achievements of its members.
- Raise the network’s profile and expanding reach internally and externally to attract new members.
- Increase awareness and understanding of the value of occupational therapy within your region.
- Identify opportunities to build and strengthen relationships with external partners and allied communities to raise the profile of occupational therapy within your region and create opportunities that will benefit your network members.
- Expand access to information, resources and opportunities relevant to network members practice, professional and service development.
Ideal opportunity for those looking to
- Engage in new and innovative activities which build community.
- Be a strong advocate and recognised voice for their profession and their professional body.
- Interact with us and help get people excited about our Workforce Strategy vision for 2035.
- Network with other leaders and changemakers across UK occupational therapy and beyond
As Equity, Diversity and Belonging Lead you’ll support the delivery of our equity, diversity and belonging strategic priorities and aims by helping to embed our equity, diversity and belonging commitment across networks and their activities.
We estimate Equity, Diversity and Belonging Leads will need to commit approximately 10 hours each month.
We’ll work with you in the first year of volunteering to better understand the time commitments required and the support we can provide to reduce unnecessary burdens.
Key skills and attributes
- Passion for equity, diversity and belonging
- Strong interest and dedication to equity, diversity and belonging, social responsibility and ethical practices.
- Ability to be a thought leader.
- A champion for inclusion of equity, diversity and belonging in the region.
- Strategic and member-centric vision
- Align the networks equity, diversity and belonging activities and wider priorities, goals and needs of the workforce.
- Identify opportunities, barriers and challenges faced by under-recognised groups in the workforce.
- Digital proficiency
- Able to use online communication platforms (for example, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and social media).
- An understanding of how to engage network members through digital channels.
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- A growth mindset.
- Commitment to working collaboratively to find new ways of working.
- A desire to improve through thinking creatively, problem-solving and encouraging innovation.
- Measuring impact
- Confidence in seeking and interpreting data and insights.
- Able to use data to inform decisions and measure outcomes and impact.
- Communication skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to engage diverse audiences.
- Can convey information clearly and foster meaningful dialogue across different channels and formats.
- Leadership
- Proven ability to empower and motivate others to collectively deliver an action plan of activities.
- Collaboration
- A team-oriented mindset with the ability to foster community and connections.
Key tasks
We expect the role to evolve and grow over time – particularly as new teams and initiatives are formed.
The below is representative of the sort of work you’ll be able to apply your current skills to, or build new ones from.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of awareness of equity, diversity and belonging across your region.
- Explore the role of equity, diversity and belonging to create consistent approaches across the networks.
- Raise better understanding of diversity and lived experiences across our networks and within your regional network.
- Facilitate updates and insights on developments that impact the occupational therapy workforce specific to equity, diversity and belonging.
- Help to establish connections and identify opportunities for collaboration with external networks that will support equity, diversity and belonging.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the mechanisms which support the defining, planning and delivery of activities to raise better understanding of diversity and lived experiences across networks.
- Facilitate relationship building with external partners and wider communities to create opportunities that will benefit your network members and advancing our profession.
Ideal opportunity for those looking to
- Engage in new and innovative activities which build community.
- Be a strong advocate and voice for their profession and their professional body.
- Interact with us and help us achieve our priorities and aims of our equity, diversity and belonging strategy and action plan.
- Network with other leaders and changemakers across UK occupational therapy and beyond.
As Regional Independent Practice lead, you’ll play a key role in supporting the delivery of our UK wide workforce strategy. You’ll help us create a culture where independent practice (all work outside of statutory sectors including private and third sectors) is a natural and valued part of wider occupational therapy practice. Connecting and collaborating with others, you’ll share experiences of effective, efficient, ethical and creative independent practice. You’ll promote learning and development in this emerging area by sharing news, resources and research within your regional network and within our Independent Practice network.
We estimate Independent Practice leads will need to commit approximately 10 hours each month. We’ll work with you in the first year of volunteering to better understand the time commitments required and the support we can provide to reduce unnecessary burdens.
Key skills and attributes
- Passion for independent practice
- Strong interest in independent practice.
- Experience / familiarity with occupational therapy practice in non-statutory sectors, including private and third sector.
- Ability to be a thought-leader
- Strategic and member-centric vision
- Align the network’s activities with the wider priorities, goals and needs of the professional body and occupational therapy workforce in independent practice.
- Identify opportunities and challenges for the occupational therapy workforce related to independent practice
- Leadership
- Proven ability to empower and motivate others to collectively deliver an action plan of activities.
- Support members to engage in independent practice
- Communication skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to engage diverse audiences.
- Can convey information clearly and foster meaningful dialogue across different channels and formats.
- Able to create and maintain meaningful connections with a range of stakeholders
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- A growth mindset.
- Commitment to working collaboratively to find new ways of working.
- A desire to inspire and improve through thinking creatively, problem-solving and encouraging innovation
- Digital proficiency
- Able to use online communication platforms (MS Teams, Zoom, social media, etc).
- An understanding of how to engage network members through digital channels.
- Measuring impact
- Confidence in seeking and interpreting data and insights.
- Able to use data to inform decisions and measure outcomes and impact.
- Collaboration
- A team-oriented mindset with the ability to foster community and connections.
- Equity, diversity and belonging
- Demonstrates commitment to equity, diversity and belonging, social responsibility and ethical practices.
Key tasks
We expect the role to evolve and grow over time as new teams and initiatives are formed.
The below is representative of the sort of activities you’ll be able to apply your current skills to, or build new ones from, as part of our team of Independent Practice Leads.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of supporting members to build confidence, capacity, capability and opportunity to embrace and actively engage with independent practice, including its incorporation into portfolio career development.
- Help RCOT understand the opportunities, gaps, facilitators and challenges to growing and strengthening independent practice in occupational therapy specific to the scope of your network.
- Horizon scan and facilitate updates and insights on developments including key trends, policies and practices that impact the occupational therapy workforce specific to independent practice within the scope of your network.
- Proactively engage with other Independent Practice leads as well as the Independent Practice professional network to optimise opportunities for cross practice network initiatives.
- Establish connections and identify opportunities to raise awareness and showcase positive contributions from independent practice among members of your network.
- Promote stronger collaboration across employment sectors, for example between statutory and independent sectors, in the spirit of enhancing outcomes for people accessing services.
Ideal opportunity for those looking to
- Engage in new and innovative activities which build community.
- Be a strong advocate and recognised voice for their profession and their professional body.
- Interact with us and work to get people excited about our networks, activities and the opportunities offered.
- Build relationships and network with many other leaders, future leaders and changemakers across UK occupational therapy and beyond.
- Come together as the collective voice of Independent Practice and engage in activities to establish trust and rapport.