Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Abbey Wood
- Salary
- £56,388 to £62,785 a year pa inc pro rata
- Closing date
- 29 Nov 2023
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- Profession
- Occupational therapist
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part Time
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Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist, Band 8a 22.50 hours per week
A unique opportunity has arisen for a Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist in Children and Young People to provide strategic professional and clinical leadership across the Directorate whilst retaining an active clinical caseload. The post holder will represent Occupational Therapy at the Senior Management Team and the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group ensuring representation at a strategic level in the organisation. The post holder will be responsible for leading on service delivery and clinical supervision of junior colleagues and students ensuring safe, responsive and effective specialist occupational therapy clinical interventions.
There are over 150 Occupational Therapists at Oxleas across the six clinical directorates: Adult Learning Disability, Children and Young People, Adult Acute and Crisis, Adult Community Mental Health, Adult Community Physical Health and Forensic and Prisons.
Oxleas Occupational Therapists are highly regarded Allied Health Professionals in the South East London Integrated Care System leading on: Rotational Band 5 and 6 AHP Programme, Apprenticeship, Preceptorship and Clinical Placement Expansion Programmes.
Main duties of the job
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Goldie Leigh Hospital
Lodge Hill
Abbey Wood
SE2 0AS
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
277-5818090-CYP
A unique opportunity has arisen for a Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist in Children and Young People to provide strategic professional and clinical leadership across the Directorate whilst retaining an active clinical caseload. The post holder will represent Occupational Therapy at the Senior Management Team and the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group ensuring representation at a strategic level in the organisation. The post holder will be responsible for leading on service delivery and clinical supervision of junior colleagues and students ensuring safe, responsive and effective specialist occupational therapy clinical interventions.
There are over 150 Occupational Therapists at Oxleas across the six clinical directorates: Adult Learning Disability, Children and Young People, Adult Acute and Crisis, Adult Community Mental Health, Adult Community Physical Health and Forensic and Prisons.
Oxleas Occupational Therapists are highly regarded Allied Health Professionals in the South East London Integrated Care System leading on: Rotational Band 5 and 6 AHP Programme, Apprenticeship, Preceptorship and Clinical Placement Expansion Programmes.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the professional leadership planning and delivery of OT services across a Directorate
- Be a key member of the Greenwich Integrated Therapies multi-disciplinary leadership team and contribute/lead on strategic developments and service improvement initiatives
- Provide professional leadership and clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists in the Directorate
- Manage a complex clinical caseload
- Role will be divided between 0.4wte Principal OT within Greenwich Children's Integrated Therapies and 0.2wte Directorate Lead/ Team Lead responsibilities
- Liaise with the CYP AHP Lead in order to feed into the Directorate Senior Management Team
- Provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work related to: Self care, Education and Leisure
- Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans
- Provide specialist OT advice within Greenwich Children's Integrated Therapies
- Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions within CYP
- Ensure the supervision of OT students on clinical placement
- Lead in the maintenance and strategic development of the Trust wide OT service as a member of the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group
- Advise the Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy on issues related to the management and delivery of the Occupational Therapy service within the Directorate
- Deputise for Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy as appropriate
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the professional leadership planning and delivery of OT services across a Directorate
- To be a key member of the Greenwich Integrated Therapies multi-disciplinary leadership team and contribute/lead on strategic developments and service improvement initiatives
- To provide professional leadership and clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists in the Directorate
- To manage a complex clinical caseload
- The role will be divided between 0.4wte Principal OT within Greenwich Childrens Integrated Therapies and 0.2wte Directorate Lead/ Team Lead responsibilities
- To liaise with the CYP AHP Lead in order to feed into the Directorate Senior Management Team
- To lead on the development of best available evidence-based OT practice
- To provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work related to: Self care, Education and Leisure
- To lead on service and policy development
- To lead on research/audit activities
- Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans
- To provide specialist OT advice within Greenwich Childrens Integrated Therapies
- To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions within CYP
- To ensure the supervision of OT students on clinical placement
- To lead in the maintenance and strategic development of the Trust wide OT service as a member of the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group
- To contribute to the local clinical governance agenda
- To advise the Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy on issues related to the management and delivery of the Occupational Therapy service within the Directorate
- To deputise for Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy as appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience in Children and Young People Services
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Goldie Leigh Hospital
Lodge Hill
Abbey Wood
SE2 0AS
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
277-5818090-CYP
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