Main area: Occupational Therapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Part time
* Flexible working
30 hours per week (May require candidate to work shift patterns between the hours of 8am and 8pm)
Job ref: 319-6851887IO
Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cobalt Business Exchange
Town: Wallsend
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59
Occupational Therapy - Clinical Lead
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven Occupational Therapist to join our Community Response Service Teams as a Clinical Lead. The service covers a range of teams including, discharge services and community therapy. We are integrated teams working collaboratively with our physiotherapy, nursing and pharmacy colleagues with well established relationships with the local authority and wider organisations.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Lead is responsible for overseeing the clinical team, ensuring the delivery of outstanding patient care, supporting staff development, and maintaining adherence to clinical guidelines and protocols. The ideal candidate will be a skilled healthcare professional with strong leadership capabilities, clinical expertise, and a passion for enhancing patient outcomes and team performance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. 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.
2. Develop occupational therapy services across Discharge & Intermediate Care Services.
3. 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.
4. Maintain a high quality of patient care to meet agreed local and national standards and targets.
5. Support in areas of strategic service planning and development.
6. Provide a link to Trust wide Occupational Therapy Professional Lead and AHP lead within Northumbria Healthcare.
7. Ensure resources are monitored and controlled through robust management in order to provide effective service delivery.
8. Act as the department's representative and promote the department at a Trust and Primary Care Organisational level.
9. Support in the planning and implementation of a recruitment strategy for occupational therapy across Discharge & Intermediate Care Services.
10. Maintain a highly complex caseload of patients within a clinical speciality.
11. Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
* Student clinical supervisor qualification or experience
* Health Professions Council – License to Practice
* Evidence of successful completion of specialist courses up to Master’s degree equivalent
* Extensive portfolio and documented evidence of CPD.
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