Occupational Therapist Leadership Position

4 weeks ago

Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom East and North Herts NHS Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our team as a Clinical Team Lead. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified staff and technical instructors.

Main Responsibilities

  • Provide clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified staff and technical instructors.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Assist in the formulation of clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner and ensure others do the same.
  • 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.
  • Be responsible for and to undertake a clinical caseload to a high professional standard, using specialist knowledge and skills from theoretical and practical experience.
  • 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 Herts 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

  • 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

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

Skills

  • 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

  • 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

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