To support the Operational Services Manager and Senior Manager in the planning of Services within Discharge & Intermediate Care Services, taking the lead on specific projects or areas of service development. To develop occupational therapy services across Discharge & Intermediate Care Services To provide speciality support to the line manager within the local occupational therapy teams, to support the recruitment, appraisal and CPD of the occupational therapy workforce. To maintain a high quality of patient care to meet agreed local and national standards and targets. To support in areas of strategic service planning and development To provide a link to Trust wide Occupational Therapy Professional Lead and AHP lead within Northumbria Healthcare To ensure resources are monitored and controlled through robust management in order to provide effective service delivery To act as the departments representative and promote the department at a Trust and Primary Care Organisational level To support in the planning and implementation of a recruitment strategy for occupational therapy across Discharge & Intermediate Care Services The post holder will also maintain a highly complex caseload of patients within a clinical speciality. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.