Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (Development post considered)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead Paediatric Occupational Therapist to work within our integrated Children’s Therapies service based at the Child Development Centre, Airedale General Hospital. The post holder will deliver highly specialist clinical activity and provide clinical leadership to a small paediatric OT team, working closely together with the team leader for paediatric OT / PT, and supported by the Therapy services manager. They will also work closely with our Speech and Language therapists, other health and educational professionals and our therapy support team.
The service provides uni-professional and multidisciplinary occupational therapy for children and young people up to the age of 19 years. The post holder will contribute to quality improvement planning, implementation of service developments, and work collaboratively with the Occupational Therapy Professional lead, health and education colleagues both internally as well as across the wider Bradford and Craven Health and Care partnership and in regional forums.
A development post at Band 6/7 may be considered for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to provide a high standard of highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment interventions working as an autonomous practitioner in the Children’s Therapies services.
They will provide clinical leadership and supervision for the paediatric OT team. They will give operational support and provide clinical expert knowledge to the team lead, Children’s therapies service manager and other stakeholders relating to service development, statutory responsibilities and operational activities, both internally and in the wider system.
Benefits
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
Experience
- Comprehensive experience in NHS Paediatric Occupational Therapy services
- Wide experience of Multidisciplinary team and multiagency working
- experience of taking key role/ leading service development and audit
- experience of providing clinical supervision to Paediatric Occupational therapists
- Experience of providing line management
- Experience of recruitment processes, absence management and performance monitoring
Knowledge
- Highly specialist knowledge of Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention
- Knowledge of Occupational Therapy and other professional guidance and standards relating to Children and Young people
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice and statutory responsibilities of health providers
- Knowledge of clinical and operational governance
Skills
- Highly specialised Occupational Therapy clinical skills with relevant caseloads
- Highly developed planning and organisation abilities
- Ability to set objectives for self and team and evaluate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly developed interpersonal skills
- Highly developed conflict/ problem solving
- Ability to work in a role with conflicting demands
- Ability to use a variety of leadership styles
- Concern and complaint investigation
Experience
- Comprehensive experience of assessment and provision of specialist equipment
- Experience of representing profession and service at Trust and system 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata per annum
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