Description
Join a supportive, forward-thinking team and help shape the future of therapy services across General and Specialist Medicine wards.
We're looking for a dynamic, motivated Team Lead Occupational Therapist who's ready to make an impact. You'll work in close partnership with the Physiotherapy Team Lead to manage a large interdisciplinary team and oversee day-to-day operations across Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and General Medicine.
Clinical Skills
- Leadership for a dedicated OT team, providing supervision, guidance, and professional development.
- Advanced autonomous practice with complex patients -- delivering high-level assessments, interventions, and discharge planning within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Performance oversight across both short-stay and long-stay wards, requiring clinical judgement and organisational skills to ensure timely assessment and effective support.
- Expert input to inpatient teams, acting as a clinical resource and champion for best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Staff development
- Service development and innovation
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Research and audit activity
Main Duties of the Job
- To be jointly responsible for the day-to-day operational management of physiotherapy and occupational therapy over 7 medical wards.
- To provide skilled team leadership in planning and delivering high standards of occupational therapy assessment, management, treatment, and advice to patients on the medical wards on a daily basis.
- To take a major role in the advanced assessment and management of patients within this specialty who may have a complex presentation and/or a multi-pathology presentation, determining best delivery of care, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
- Be involved in developing the service in line with national and local strategic plans.
- To line manage the Medical Therapy team occupational therapists consisting of band 6 x3, band 5 x1, band 4 x 3/4 staff.
- The Trust is moving towards 7-day working and this post will be expected to participate in providing the OT service across 7 days, including extended hours and weekend working.
Benefits
- The full range of NHS benefits and discounts.
Person Specification
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational therapy
- Appropriate training at MSc Level of equivalent experiential development
- Experience as a senior OT in surgery/cardiorespiratory/neuro/general and elderly medicine
- Experience working within an acute hospital setting