Trust Wide Professional Lead Of Occupational Therapy
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Job Summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in a professional senior leadership role. We are looking for an outstanding, passionate and innovative Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy.
This role ensures that the occupational therapists across the organisation have the leadership, clinical and governance structures in place so they are able to practice in a safe, effective and efficient way, delivering high quality services across Communities, Hospitals and Specialist Services, Learning Disability, and Children and Young Peoples Services.
Main Duties of the Job
This role would suit someone who:
* has a passion for ensuring the delivery of high quality occupational therapy services and who enjoys managing and supporting people to achieve their potential.
* is committed to improving services and maintaining staff well-being.
* can think strategically and deliver services in line with the national and local agenda.
* is able to oversee transformation work and deliver on complex service development/projects.
* is able to take a collective leadership approach, engaging key stakeholders and ensuring that people who use services and their carers/family are at the heart of everything that we do.
* is able to provide professional supervision to the lead and highly specialist occupational therapist across the organisation, along with supervision for occupational therapists within services that do not have a lead occupational therapist attached to them.
About Us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population.
Job Responsibilities
The post holder will be a highly experienced and competent occupational therapist & will be expected to:
* Be accountable for the delivery of a high quality, safe and efficient occupational therapy service across the divisions.
* Provide compassionate and collective leadership to the occupational therapy service, across all the divisions in the Trust.
* Ensure that the occupational therapy assessment, formulations and interventions are evidence based, outcome measured and evaluated.
* Provide highly developed specialist professional advice, guidance and consultation for people who have complex occupational needs.
* Ensure that there are clear occupational therapy pathways for each division within the organisation.
* Share best practice and embed learning into service delivery.
* Ensure that the necessary systems, protocols and policies for the delivery of a safe & supportive service are in place.
* Lead and inspire staff to provide a proactive and responsive high-quality service.
* Lead on complex audits of occupational therapy interventions to improve practice and service delivery across the divisions.
* Keep up to date with and contribute to the latest research and practice developments relevant to occupational therapy.
* Champion and lead on transformation work, service development and clinical initiatives.
* Maintain an effective and supportive supervision structure.
* Provide professional advice, guidance and work alongside service managers, clinical leads and Human Resources.
* Lead on the recruitment of the lead and highly specialist occupational therapists across the divisions.
* Monitor spend within the occupational therapy workforce.
* Identify clinical and workforce risks within the occupational therapy service.
* Identify the continuing professional development needs of the occupational therapy service.
* Chair the Lead Occupational Therapy meeting.
* Contribute to the wider vision for the AHP workforce.
* Enhance the national profile of the SABP occupational therapy service.
* Represent the occupational therapy service at both Trust-wide and national meetings.
* Ensure the availability of high quality student practice placements.
* Promote the profession to the next generation.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications and Experience
* Bsc (Hons) degree in occupational therapy or equivalent.
* Leadership training.
* Clinical supervision training.
* Extensive post-qualification experience of working as an occupational therapist.
* Demonstrates a highly developed specialist and advanced knowledge of occupational therapy.
* Extensive experience of supervising staff and addressing performance management issues.
* Previous clinical/professional leadership experience.
* Experience of leading service transformation.
* Experience of delivering highly specialist evidence based interventions.
* Effective IT skills.
Desirable
* Previous experience of implementing national strategies at a local level.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Employer Details
Employer name: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Trust Headquarters: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, 18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road, KT22 7AD
Employer's website: https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us
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