B7 Lead Occupational Therapist- East Surrey

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Job overview

Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health

Are you ready to lead and inspire?

Join us as a Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health and take on an exciting role that combines leadership, clinical expertise, and transformative work.

• Leadership & Governance: Provide clinical and leadership oversight and support to our adult communities' occupational therapists.
• Clinical Excellence: Retain a clinical role, ensuring hands-on involvement and impact.
• Flexible Working: Operate across the Trust, with responsibilities in West Surrey and North East Hants.
• Professional Development: Benefit from a robust CPD program and development opportunities.
• Innovative Practices: Utilize the Model of Human Occupation for assessments and interventions, offering both individual and group work.

• Collaborative Environment: Monthly leadership team meetings to drive strategic initiatives.
• Supportive Network: Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to mental health transformation.

Make a Difference

If you're passionate about mental health and ready to lead, apply now and be a part of our mission to transform lives.

The position provides leadership across the adult communities and based at Community Mental Health Recovery Services in East Surrey . The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within all the Communities services, as need arises.

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Main duties of the job

1. To provide compassionate and effective leadership to the occupational therapists within the service/locality/sector.
2. To contribute to the overall leadership of the service/locality/sector.
3. To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
4. To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies.
5. To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.
6. To ensure the delivery occupational therapy student placements.
7. To lead on service development and audits both within individual services and the wider occupational therapy service.
8. To be an active member of the overall occupational therapy leadership team.
9. To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person specification

Qualifications, skills and experinence

• • Occupational Therapy professional qualification
• • Extensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex needs
• • Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
• • Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
• • Experience of contributing to service development/project work
• • Experience of providing supervision
• • Experience of supporting students on placement
• • Experience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
• • UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes
• • Demonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills

• • In depth knowledge of group therapy and experience of facilitating groups

Qulaifications Skills and Experience

• HCPC registration

• • Clinical supervision training
• • Fieldwork educators training
• • Leadership training
• • Additional academic or clinical qualifications/training relevant to area of practice

Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Gender Pay Gap Action

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.