Wanted please: one aspiring creative and inspirational leader to be the Newham Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy. You are a rule-breaker. An ask-permission-later innovator. You are all about the place. And the people. In person. You're all over meaningful intervention too. You don't know all the answers, but you know how to get us all to work them out together. You like a challenge and take on slightly more than you should. You make mistakes we all get better from.
In return you get to represent an amazing group of OTs, assistants, sports and health coaches, peer support workers, gardening and recovery college leads who are already making a huge contribution to the directorate's strategic aims. You will have a supportive and encouraging directorate management team alongside you, and a range of enthusiastic partners in the borough keen to collaborate. Learning opportunities will come thick and fast. Your Newham experiences will fire the rest of your career.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy is responsible for the strategic and operational management of all adult and older adult mental health occupational therapy provision across the borough of Newham. They also hold professional responsibility for occupational therapists in adult Learning Disability services and have overall responsibility for the peer support work provision in Newham. As a member of the Directorate management team, they play an important role in translating strategic direction, vision and priorities into meaningful service provision across inpatient and community services. The Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy should be visible, inspirational and able to influence beyond the occupational therapy service, across the organisation as well as relevant system partners.
Job responsibilities
1. To plan and manage a high-quality mental health occupational therapy (OT) service within the directorate.
2. To develop the OT service in a direction compatible with the NHS Long Term Plan, Trust strategy/Triple Aim: ensure that service user experience, staff experience, population health and value are developed in a mutually reinforcing way.
3. To lead and line manage the Newham Mental Health Occupational Therapy Service: provide professional leadership for all Occupational Therapy staff within the directorate including both working age, older adult and learning disability services.
4. To ensure the provision of clinical, professional and management supervision, as well as yearly appraisal review for all staff.
5. To ensure staff develop skills and explore new ways of working suited to the goals of trust strategy and NHS Long-Term Plan.
6. To be responsible for developing and maintaining a creative and dynamic service culture that makes the best of each member's potential.
7. To be part of the directorate senior leadership team (DMT), representing OT services and ensuring OT contributes to local priorities to the fullest extent, taking a lead role in collaboration with other disciplines.
8. To participate in locality planning and development in collaboration with the senior leadership team, taking a lead on specific projects as required.
9. Take a lead role in building service relationships within the borough that support the development of supportive pathways for service user recovery and inclusion.
10. To lead and line manage the provision of non-registered professionals linked to the occupational therapy service including occupational therapy support workers, sports therapy, health coaches and therapeutic gardening leads.
11. To ensure quality improvement remains an ongoing focus of the service.
12. To hold overall responsibility for the Peer support worker workforce in Newham Mental Health services, including budgetary responsibility.
13. To be the Directorate Management Team (DMT) lead for the Recovery college, including line management of Recovery College Manager.
14. To be the DMT Lead for employment support including Individual Placement and Support (IPS) provision.
15. To be a key member of the Trustwide AHP Leadership team.
16. To be part of the on-call managers rota for the Newham Mental Health Directorate.
Person Specification
Education / Qualification/ Training
Essential
* Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registration
* Further qualification to Masters' level or equivalent
* Experience of CPD and role development activities
Desirable
* Training in Quality improvement methods
Experience
Essential
* Substantive experience in a number of senior manager roles including professional leadership experience
* Evidence of Service Development activities
* Recent significant experience at a senior level in the NHS with proven track record of using professional knowledge to bring about change
* Proven track record and significant experience of working with users and carers
* Experience of staff leadership development to support service improvement
Desirable
* Experience of other healthcare settings
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Advanced clinical knowledge and leadership skills to support service decision making in complex scenarios
* Knowledge of how mental health difficulties impact upon occupational functioning and performance and the potential for OT intervention
* In-depth understanding of NHS strategy and policy agendas
* Highly developed interpersonal skills, political awareness and sensitivity to support change within the service, the wider organisation and externally.
* Ability to negotiate, influence and manage conflict as required
* Ability to communicate difficult information
* Expert facilitation skills, coaching and mentoring skills
* Ability to travel across sites as required
* Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills for the assessment of service delivery plans and formulation of quality improvement strategies
* Knowledge of Quality Improvement (QI) approaches
* Ability to maintain the profile of OT within a MDT and the organisation
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Occupational Therapy Dept, Newham Centre for Mental Health
Cherry Tree Way, off Glen Road
London
E13 8SP
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