Description
Priory Hospital Middleton St George has an opportunity for a HCPC registered Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team.
As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide clinical, professional, and operational leadership to the Occupational Therapy (OT) service, working in collaboration with the Therapy Services Manager to ensure OT services are proactive and supportive of Priory objectives. In this role, you will play a key part in patient recovery, supporting the assessment and delivery of tailored treatment plans while ensuring dignity, respect, and high standards of care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues across the hospital site to support integration around patient care.
- Deliver a highly specialised and advanced standard of OT assessment, treatment, and management for patients.
- Ensure that own practice and service meet agreed local and national standards and clinical governance requirements, including COT Standards for Practice, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- Participate in site service quality improvement initiatives, including conducting investigations and Quality monitoring assurance objectives and clinical audit.
- Oversee student placements within the OT team.
- Attend all site-required meetings, including Clinical Governance and Patient Safety, and represent the OT department.
- Attend Regional OT meetings and feedback to site.
- Take responsibility for identified budget responsibilities related to the role, for example, the therapy activity budget.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:
- Candidates must be HCPC registered and hold a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or Master's degree, or have completed formal postgraduate study (award or non-award bearing).
- Experience in team leadership and driving change, experience supervising Occupational Therapists or Occupational Therapy Assistants and students.
- Working knowledge of current national and local healthcare issues.
- Training in relevant models of practice such as MoHO, VdTMoCA, and Sensory Integration.
Benefits:
- Healthcare benefits
- Free on-site parking
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day's annual leave
- Contributory pension scheme
- Flexible benefits, including reduced rates and access to new schemes, including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones), and private healthcare
- Access to development opportunities
- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
- Leadership & management development
- Long service award
- Refer a friend bonuses