We are recruiting for an Team Lead Occupational Therapist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients to join our Medical and Elderly Therapy Team at Lister Hospital in Stevenage.

We are looking for someone with previous experience of team leadership and clinical expertise.

We are able to offer you the opportunity to work in a well established multi-disciplinary team and to develop your OT skills and clinical leadership.

This post may suit an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking to move into their first Band 7 role or a Band 7 looking for a new role.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified staff and technical instructors.

To attend operational and service related meetings as a representative of OT and Therapy Services, to advise on service developments in line with national standards, guidelines and current evidence base.

To take a lead role in the assessment and treatment of medical and elderly patients with diverse, chronic presentation and highly complex physical and cognitive presentation.

To assist in the formulation of clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner and ensure others do the same.

To plan, coordinate and evaluate specifically the OT interventions provided to patients on a day to day basis, and to contribute to the wider Therapy service.

To be responsible for and to undertake a clinical caseload to a high professional standard, using specialist knowledge and skills from theoretical and practical experience.

To undertake/lead evidence-based audit and research projects to develop and enhance personal and team's clinical practice To implement specific changes to practice To write and/or contribute to service standards, protocols and clinical care pathways.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.

Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration
• Knowledge and application of professional code of conduct and ethics
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Membership of appropriate specialist interest group
• Practice placement educator

Essential criteria

Essential

• Previous relevant NHS / Social services post graduate experience
• Evidence of active involvement in service improvement (to include appraisal, audit and implementation of change)
• Evidence of research / audit projects undertaken

Skills

Essential

• Team management and leadership experience
• Highly developed understanding of the OT process and terms of reference
• Able to influence, teach, motivate, lead and guide others
• Experience of integrated Therapy Team working and leadership

Other

Essential

• Able to drive and access to a car for work purposes or ability to travel easily between sites
• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management staff

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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361-6558142-B