Lead Occupational Therapist, Middlesbrough

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Lead Occupational Therapist, Middlesbrough

Client: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 3a9151129a28

Job Views: 7

Posted: 22.02.2025

Job Description:

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic Lead Occupational Therapist to clinically lead Occupational Therapy in Ridgeway, secure inpatient services. The post is full time for 12 months fixed term/secondment opportunity to cover maternity leave.

We are looking for an OT who can work flexibly to meet service needs and has the vision, energy, and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy.

You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network to develop a way of delivering a high-quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all patients have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.

As a Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide clinical leadership within Ridgeway, managing a complex caseload independently, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational interventions, ensuring the highest professional standards of care are maintained and demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times.

Main duties of the job

1. To be responsible for the delivery of occupational therapy services and provide specialist advice to occupational therapy staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
2. To receive complex requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure.
3. To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
4. To participate in and provide clinical/professional and management supervision.
5. To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.
6. To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives.
7. To use the Trust electronic patient record system.
8. To abide by all Trust policies and procedures.
9. To respond flexibly and creatively to challenges.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families, and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

As a service, we are responsive to the wellbeing of our Occupational therapy team, and place a strong emphasis on self-care and supporting one another. This means there are clear job plans and people are encouraged to maintain a work/life balance. We pride ourselves in building a positive working atmosphere, and opportunities for development mean we have a proven track record of retaining staff within the team. In addition to this, flexible working and working from home can be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Date posted: 17 February 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 346-FMH-014-25

Job locations: Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS4 3AF

Job Responsibilities:

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

The post holder will provide and lead the delivery of evidence-based occupational therapy assessment and interventions.

The ability to engage and communicate with working-age adults as well as the parents/family/carers and system around them is essential. They must be able to demonstrate experience of delivery of occupational therapy, keenness to continually develop themselves and others, and a particular interest in this field of OT. We will support use of transferable skills from a range of clinical settings.

Clinical/Professional supervision is provided by the Trust Professional Head for OT. The postholder will attend OT Learning and Governance Networks to ensure fidelity to core occupational therapy delivery, enhance CPD, and contribute to the wider OT service developments.

Applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis. In the event that permanent funding is secured for this post, the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

1. Masters in Occupational Therapy or related subject (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
2. Registration with HCPC
3. Clinical Supervisory Skills course
4. Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
5. Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
6. Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

1. Accredited Practice Placement Educator (APPLE)

Experience

Essential

1. Substantial clinical experience in own service area
2. Experience of leading clinical governance activities including clinical audit
3. Substantial experience in clinical supervision of staff
4. Participation in service development

Knowledge

Essential

1. Specialist clinical knowledge in own service area
2. Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
3. Clinical Governance and its application in practice
4. Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice
5. Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
6. Safeguarding and its application in practice
7. Research and development methodology

Desirable

1. Business planning process
2. HR Policies and Procedures

Skills

Essential

1. Demonstrate effective Clinical leadership
2. Clearly articulate the role of the Occupational Therapy Service to a wide and diverse range of people
3. Motivate and work positively and constructively with other members of the team
4. Communicate complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to the individual and situation
5. Solve complex clinical problems
6. Record complex information accurately and concisely and write reports
7. Experience using prioritisation systems
8. Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team
9. Manage own caseload, prioritise and delegate effectively
10. Apply latest research evidence and evaluative thinking in practice
11. Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision
12. Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings