Central London Community Health Trust is recruiting a Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead for six months on a fixed-term basis for its inpatient rehabilitation service in Hertfordshire. The role centres on a specialist caseload of patients with multiple, complex rehabilitation needs, with expert assessment, treatment and advice for patients, carers and professionals. Working part-time in a multidisciplinary team, the postholder also acts as a specialist clinical resource across Hertfordshire and supports the OT Lead in developing integrated working with partners.
What the job involves
- Manage a specialist caseload of patients with multiple and complex rehabilitation needs
- Undertake highly specialised OT assessment and treatment using evidence-based approaches
- Provide expert OT advice to patients, carers, relatives and health and social care professionals
- Work as an active member of the multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation team to support safe, person-centred care
- Act as a specialist clinical resource for OT colleagues and other healthcare professionals across Hertfordshire
- Support the OT Lead with service development and integrated working with health and social care partners
- Share specialist knowledge and contribute to developing OT practice across the service
- Support colleagues to develop their clinical knowledge, skills and a positive learning environment
- Work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team
What’s required
Qualifications
- Diploma or degree in occupational therapy
- Relevant postgraduate training and an active CPD portfolio
Registration & licences
- Current HCPC registration as an allied health professional
Experience
- Senior-level post-registration clinical experience, including rehabilitation
- OT experience in at least two of: physical function, cognition, ageing; plus general rehabilitation and falls management
- Assessing and implementing minor and major home adaptations on the grounds of disability
- Working within a multidisciplinary team and NHS experience
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced assessment, treatment and clinical reasoning for people with complex multi-pathology
- Core OT skills across a range of conditions using a client-centred, goal-setting approach
- Advanced verbal and written communication and report writing
- Experience supervising staff and students, with skills in appraising and teaching junior staff and peers
- Knowledge of complex medical conditions, NICE and RCOT guidelines, outcome measures and recent national health and social care policy and legislation
- Working knowledge of MS Office applications
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver unless covered by the Equality Act 2010
Other
- Evidence of Trust values and behaviours; working independently and with supervision; acting on feedback; organising own time
- Willingness to work flexibly across locations in the division
Nice to have
- Membership of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT)
- Training in appraisal or supervision
- Postgraduate qualification at masters level or equivalent in a specialist field
- Experience of research and clinical audit
- Experience of working with social services
- Experience setting up and running activity-based group programmes
What’s offered
- Competitive employment package
- Support for professional development
- High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS), pro rata
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
