Clinical Team Manager (OT North)

Job overview

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children’s community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

You will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues.

We are excited to be advertising for a clinical team manager, based within the North Devon locality.

You will provide the day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within the Physical and Sensory clinical pathway, which consists of a multidisciplinary team of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists. You will provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as required to the occupational therapists within the pathway.

You will manage effective operational delivery of the service in close collaboration with the Occupational Therapy Clinical Specialist and other  senior clinicians and clinical lead and to have supervisory skills and be able to hold a small caseload, working across the different environments such as home, schools and clinics.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team.
• Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care .
• Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations.
• Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated.
• In partnership with the Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively.
• To maintain systems to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity  within the team.
• Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), to maintain excellent clinical standards and safety.
• Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets.
• Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians , to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff.
• Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings, adapting communication to meet the needs of others.
• To deputise for the Operations Manager as required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• A professional qualification at degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.
• Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
• Knowledge of the provision of healthcare for children, young people and families within the NHS.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, NHS policy and other national policy relating to children and young people and its implications for area of specialty.
• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professionalcolleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience.
• The ability to form and maintain good working relationships with others in multidisciplinary and inter-agency settings.
• Daily operation of IT equipment.
• Ability to travel across Devon.
• Proactive, energetic, enthusiastic, able to inspire and motivate others. Self-motivated, confident, reflective.
• Standing/sitting with limited scope for movement for long periods; Frequently. Clinical work with service users.
• Processing (e.g. typing/transmitting) news of highly distressing events.Giving unwelcome news to patients/ clients/carers/staff.
• Carry out formal student/trainee assessments.Carry out clinical/social care interventions.  Analyse statistics.Operate equipment/machinery.

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.