Lead Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 350+ Occupational Therapists in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us & maintain your dual skills.

OT's in CNWL are very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure & this includes an AHP director, Trust-wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R& D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and EBP is made possible by our strong links with local universities.

The ideal candidate:

• Wants to work in a managerial role whilst continuing to develop their clinical expertise
• Has an interest in service development
• Demonstrates good leadership skills
• Committed to CPD for themselves and their team
• Experienced & motivated Band 6 or 7
• Work autonomously & manage their workload effectively
• Likes working in an environment of change & the opportunities that bring for improvement and development

Main duties of the job

We actively support the next generation of OTs through apprenticeships, student placements and the promotion of the profession as a career in schools. We are proud of the diversity in our workforce but have invested time in supporting and developing this further through our BAME OT group.

If you are an OT who strives for excellent and wants to develop to your full potential then we would welcome your application.

Band 7 OTs enrich teams and the service with their managerial and clinical expertise. We recognise this and therefore view them as staff we are committed to fully supporting in their clinical and managerial development. There will be opportunities to lead on trust wide OT projects, shadow senior managers and become a clinical specialist through an ACP programme.

The post holder will oversee the Occupational Therapy provision across 3 Community Mental Health Teams and our Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.

This is a great time to join our team as there are exciting development plans in process, providing loads of opportunity to hone skills and gain experience in service development and improvement. Whilst leading and supervising a team of OTs and providing expert clinical provision to people in the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description for full details on the role.

• The Band 7 Specialist OT will sit within Brent Community Mental Health Service. They will develop, deliver and oversee the provision of Occupational Therapy across the three community hubs and EIS.
• To provide professional and clinical leadership, and expertise to the occupational therapists working within Brent Community.
• To work effectively in partnership and collaboration with a range of agencies and community providers that support service users in their recovery.
• To ensure that all interventions amplify an individual’s self-management skills in line with the principles and ethos of recovery and social inclusion.
• To be involved with the development and implementation of psychosocial pathway, including facilitation of groups and our step 2 and 3 offer.
• To manage a defined complex occupational therapy caseload using evidence based and person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist OT treatment.
• To work in conjunction with the Borough Head OT and other Lead OTs in the Trust to support the development of and promote evidence-based OT within the community roles.
• To work in conjunction with senior staff in the MDT and our community to support the development of services in Brent Community Mental Health.To provide training and education to occupational therapists and other professionals with regard to how occupation may assist the recovery of service users across community services.
• To jointly work with other Lead OTs in community services in CNWL to develop services including specific projects, audit and research
• To act as an educator to students on practice placement.
• To act as mentor for OT apprenticeships as required