Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead - Community Hospitals

Job overview

To be the Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Lead for the Community Hospitals Therapy Team across all 4 sites in LCHS.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership to Occupational Therapists within the Community Hospitals Therapy Team, as well as line management to the wider team. They will work closely with the Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead to coordinate provision of rehabilitation across the Community Hospitals, ensuring a cohesive approach to quality service delivery aligning to LCHS strategic aims. This will involve working in partnership with the AHP Clinical Service Lead, supporting service lines within LCHS and outside agencies such as Adult Social Care, with a view to integrating pathways and ensuring referrals and transfers of care create a seamless and positive patient experience.

The post holder will also benefit from the support of a wider leadership team, collaborating with Clinical Team Leads and the Operational Team Lead for Adult Community Therapy services.

This post requires the post holder to work across the four community hospital sites on a regular basis. The four sites are:

John Coupland Hospital, Gainsborough

Louth Community Hospital

Johnson Community Hospital, Spalding

Skegness Community Hospital

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership and management for therapy staff within Community Hospitals. To complement the role of Clinical Team Leads on the Ward, undertaking appropriate clinical activity as required. Be responsible for performance and target levels as identified by LCHS specifically in relation to Community Hospitals.

To be a clinical leader, demonstrating consistent good practice, openness, and responsiveness to emerging evidence and commissioning traits. To lead in the Case Management model of care and to act as Complex Case Manager for an agreed case load who have complex needs. As Complex Case Manager to a designated case load the role includes ensuring all patients are able to access all elements of their care plan and to ensure the individual care plans are delivered and progressed by the team

To provide complex therapy advice, assessment and treatment to those people being case managed by other members of the identified teams. To develop specialist area of expertise and extended scope of practice.

Develop training packages and documentations to support delivery of high quality care within the service.

To independently assess patients with more complex specialist needs and their associated requirements for overall service provision and onward referral to other services.

To ensure a high standard of care for all patients by effective communication with patients, carers, GPs and other health professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 1. To be responsible for the effective clinical leadership of the Community Hospitals Therapy Team alongside Physiotherapy Clinical Team Lead, ensuring that capacity and capability is maintained to deliver the contracted service levels.2. To manage the systems that ensure staff shift patterns, sickness absence, training and development plans, performance and appraisals are timely, effective and contribute to operational improvement in the team.3. To understand the dynamics of the team interactions, manage conflict and ensure that effective feedback systems facilitate continuous improvement in the performance of individuals and directly address deficiencies in performance.4. To support the Therapy Team to undertake specialist assessment and treatment that is evidence based within a commissioned framework and agree with patients an individual management and treatment plan using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills.5. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.6. To be an active member of the in-service training programmes by attending, delivering and chairing staff meetings, training sessions, external courses and reflective practice.7. To be responsible for the coordination and delivery of the clinical development plan for the Community Hospital Therapy Team Occupational Therapists and ensure where appropriate that this is integrated into the team CPD plan.8. To ensure the quality of record keeping within the team to provide a timely, accurate and informative chronology of clinical assessment, decision making, intervention and evaluation.9. Demonstrate continuous appraisal of personal practice and act on indicators for change10. Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situations.11. Work in partnership to develop a sustainable integrated health and social care team in the locality, reducing the fragmentation of care and gaps in communication which have a negative impact on the quality of care. This may involve working with Lincolnshire County Council, acute sector and 3rd sector colleagues.12. Computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft applications, System One and other IT programmes that may be applicable.