Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy

Job description

Job responsibilities

To plan and manage a high-quality mental health occupational therapy (OT) service within the directorate. To develop the OT service in a direction compatible with the NHS Long Term Plan, Trust strategy/Triple Aim: ensure that service user experience, staff experience, population health and value are developed in a mutually reinforcing way.

To lead and line manage the Newham Mental Health Occupational Therapy Service: provide professional leadership for all Occupational Therapy staff within the directorate including both working age,older adult and learning disability services. To ensure the provision of clinical, professional and management supervision, as well as yearly appraisal review for all staff. To ensure staff develop skills and explore new ways of working suited to the goals of trust strategy and NHS Long-Term Plan. To be responsible for developing and maintaining a creative and dynamic service culture that makes the best of each members potential.

To be part of the directorate senior leadership team (DMT), representing OT services and ensuring OT contributes to local priorities to the fullest extent, taking a lead role in collaboration with other disciplines. To participate in locality planning and development in collaboration with the senior leadership team, taking a lead on specific projects as required.

Take a lead role in building service relationships within the borough that support the development of supportive pathways for service user recovery and inclusion. These may be internal (for example maintain good collaboration with therapies colleagues) or external (IPS services, links to community assets and third sector provision, service user organisations and co-production, acute hospital, community health and local authority).

To lead and line manage the provision of non-registered professionals linked to the occupational therapy service including occupational therapy support workers, sports therapy, health coaches and therapeutic gardening leads.

To ensure quality improvement remains an ongoing focus of the service.

To hold overall responsibility for the Peer support worker workforce in Newham Mental Health services, including budgetary responsibility.

To be the Directorate Management Team (DMT) lead for the Recovery college, including line management of Recovery College Manager.

To be the DMT Lead for employment support including Individual Placement and Support (IPS) provision.

To be a key member of the Trustwide AHP Leadership team.

To be part of the on-call managers rota for the Newham Mental Health Directorate.

Please read the attached JD & PS for full details

Person Specification

Education / Qualification/ Training

Essential

• oDegree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
• oHCPC registration
• oFurther qualification to Masters' level or equivalent
• oExperience of CPD and role development activities

Desirable

• oTraining in Quality improvement methods

Experience

Essential

• oSubstantive experience in a number of senior manager roles including professional leadership experience
• oEvidence of Service Development activities oRecent significant experience at a senior level in the NHS with proven track record of using professional knowledge to bring about change
• oProven track record and significant experience of working with users and carers
• oExperience of staff leadership development to support service improvement

Desirable

• oExperience of other healthcare settings

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• oAdvanced clinical knowledge and leadership skills to support service decision making in complex scenariosoKnowledge of how mental health difficulties impact upon occupational functioning and performance and the potential for OT intervention
• oIn depth understanding of NHS strategy and policy agendas
• oTo have highly developed interpersonal skills, political awareness and sensitivity to support change within the service, the wider organisation and externally. Ability to negotiate, influence and manage conflict as required oAbility to communicate difficult information oExpert facilitation skills. Coaching and mentoring skillsoAbility to travel across sites as required
• oHighly developed analytical and problem solving skills for the assessment of service delivery plans and formulation of quality improvement strategiesoKnowledge of Quality Improvement (QI) approachesoAbility to maintain the profile of OT within a MDT and the organisation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Occupational Therapy Dept, Newham Centre for Mental Health

Cherry Tree Way, off Glen Road

London

E13 8SP

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)