Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (Older Adult)

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Older Adult Occupational Therapist to join our Older Adult Inpatient Mental Health Service and Team. We are a small older adult team comprising of two other Occupational Therapists, an OTA and three Activity Co-ordinators.

The role is to lead and contribute to the delivery of effective and efficient Occupational Therapy and therapeutic activities within our three Older Adult Wards located in Warwick and Nuneaton.

The post would suit someone with mental and physical health Occupational Therapy experience and competence, in acute and community settings.

Significant supervisory experience and a desire to develop others as well as the service is required.

Effective communication and organisational skills are key. Quality improvement experience is desirable.

The post holder will work clinically and in a clinical leadership capacity, in collaboration with the wider MDT team, and will be well supported by the AHP Service Lead and fellow AHP clinical specialists across our adult and older adult services.

Opportunities exist for CPD, with training and development available to enhance knowledge, skills and confidence across the role responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

To carry a clinical caseload of people with complex occupational needs.

To gather a broad range of information from a variety of sources.

To assess mental, physical and occupational strengths, needs and risks.

To formulate occupational needs and care plan and interventions accordingly

To lead and develop the occupational therapy and activity staff.

Provide leadership is the management of equipment and resources.

To enable quality record keeping within the team, and provide necessary data, including maintenance and evaluation of a range of audit data.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To carry a clinical caseload of people with complex occupational needs. To interpret referrals, conduct initial interviews; assess the strengths and limitations of the person.
• To plan and implement appropriate treatment plans involving patients/clients/relatives/carers, multidisciplinary colleagues and external agencies, including social care as appropriate. Treatment may be delivered in a variety of community settings.
• To plan and provide highly specialist occupational therapy based on best practice, current evidence, and national directives from National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
• To clinically prioritise referrals requiring occupational therapy in line with team and pathway processes. To take a lead in case allocation and occupational therapy clinical pathways in collaboration with the team and service leads.
• To be responsible for the organisation and implementation of clinical supervision for occupational therapy staff across the designated service.
• To coordinate and lead the provision of highly skilled support and direction, including clinical supervision, appraisals (when delegated), training and competency sign off, to other occupational therapists within the designated service.
• To be responsible for raising occupational therapy profession specific issues including training needs, and to work with the AHP professional leadership as directed in supporting occupational therapy professional issues.
• To take a lead on occupational therapy areas of quality, service improvement, and innovation and research, in conjunction with Service Lead and AHP professional leadership
• To work directly with patients, carers, clinicians, team leads, service leads and heads of service to advise on occupational therapy specific issues and needs.
• To take a leadership role in contributing to, developing, implementing and reviewing integrated clinical pathways and from an occupational therapy perspective as directed by the service lead.
• To ensure timely and accurate data entry to demonstrate improving data quality on the electronic system.
• To professionally conduct yourself to ensure that you are an ambassador for your profession and the service that you work within and the Trust as a whole.
• The post holder is required to remain eligible for State Registration through participation in appraisal, clinical supervision and Continuous Professional Development.

Please refer to the job description for further details.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.