Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Working in partnership with the Service Leads, Operational Manager, Peer Support and community teams to manage and support community occupational therapy interventions, intensive outreach pathway and future service developments.

We are currently looking to recruit a highly skilled and enthusiastic senior occupational therapist to join our Eating Disorders team. We are looking for someone with strong leadership skills and a commitment to high quality clinical care, who is looking for the next opportunity in their career development.

The successful candidate will be predominantly based at the Redwoods Centre, Shropshire, which consists of a dynamic MDT, providing innovative treatment to bring about long lasting change and recovery for patients with eating disorders.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, self-motivated and innovative individual with a genuine interest in working in the specialist field of eating disorders to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and assist the Operational Manager in the provision of clinical leadership and day to day leadership of the occupational therapy pathways.

(Interview date TBC)

Main duties of the job

The overall purpose of the post holder is to ensure that individuals who are referred into the service have their occupational needs assessed and interventions/recommendations are identified to meet these needs and that these are incorporated into an overall formulation of need and appropriate plan of care.

Working for our organisation

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

• Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes specialist occupational therapy assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Deliver a range of non-pharmacological interventions following specific Occupational Therapy assessments to enable understanding of any expression of an unmet need and to maximise an individual’s abilities.
• Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
• Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions.
• Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
• Support in the provision of formal and informal training of pre/post registration students, staff members, carers and service users.
• Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
• Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• The post holder will be required to work within the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and Professional Code of Conduct, and Core Standards for Occupational Therapists.
• Maintain an up-to-date level of professional competence within the specific environment.
• To ensure care is provided in line with NICE Guidance, RCOT, AHP Strategy including other relevant local and national documentation, strategy and guidance.

Please see attached JD/PS for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• Dip COT or degree in Occupational Therapy plus post qualification knowledge and experience to post master’s level.
• BAOT Registered.

• Leadership Qualification.

Experience

• Highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of OT interventions and clinical areas.
• Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working in eating disorder settings with adults experiencing mental health and or learning disabilities related difficulties.

• Experience of working in inpatient mental health settings and making decisions autonomously.