Job Description

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist in the Adult Acute & Crisis Directorate to address a complex active clinical caseload and provide strategic professional and clinical leadership.



The post holder will represent Occupational Therapy at the Senior Management Team and the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group ensuring representation at a strategic level in the organisation. The post holder will be responsible for leading on service delivery and clinical supervision of junior colleagues and students ensuring safe, responsive and effective specialist occupational therapy clinical interventions.



There are over 150 Occupational Therapists at Oxleas across the six clinical directorates: Adult Learning Disability, Children and Young People, Adult Acute and Crisis, Adult Community Mental Health, Adult Community Physical Health and Forensic and Prisons.



Oxleas Occupational Therapists are highly regarded Allied Health Professionals in the South East London Integrated Care System leading on: Rotational Band 5 and 6 AHP Programme, Apprenticeship, Preceptorship and Clinical Placement Expansion Programmes.



Responsible for the professional leadership planning and delivery of OT services across a Directorate



Be a key member of the Oxleas House multi-disciplinary leadership team and contribute/lead on strategic developments and service improvement initiatives



Provide professional leadership and clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists in the Directorate



Manage a complex clinical caseload



Role will be divided between 0.5wte Principal OT within Oxleas House Working Age Adul and 0.5wte Directorate Lead responsibilities



Liaise with the Acute & Crisis Directorate AHP Lead in order to feed into the Directorate Senior Management Team



Provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work related to: Self care, Education and Leisure



Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans



Provide specialist OT advice



Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions within Acute Mental Health Directorate



Ensure the supervision of OT students on clinical placement



Lead in the maintenance and strategic development of the Trust wide OT service as a member of the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group



Advise the Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy on issues related to the management and delivery of the Occupational Therapy service within the Directorate



Deputise for Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy as appropriate



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



Responsible for the professional leadership planning and delivery of OT services across a Directorate



Be a key member of the Oxleas House multi-disciplinary leadership team and contribute/lead on strategic developments and service improvement initiatives



Provide professional leadership and clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists in the Directorate



Manage a complex clinical caseload



Role will be divided between 0.5wte Principal OT within Oxleas House Working Age Adul and 0.5wte Directorate Lead responsibilities



Liaise with the Acute & Crisis Directorate AHP Lead in order to feed into the Directorate Senior Management Team



Provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work related to: Self care, Education and Leisure



Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans



Provide specialist OT advice



Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions within Acute Mental Health Directorate



Ensure the supervision of OT students on clinical placement



Lead in the maintenance and strategic development of the Trust wide OT service as a member of the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapy group



Advise the Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy on issues related to the management and delivery of the Occupational Therapy service within the Directorate



Deputise for Head of Profession for Occupational Therapy as appropriate