Clinical Lead

Are you passionate about making a difference to the future of Occupational Therapy for Children and Young People in Hampshire? We have an exciting new post for a clinical and professional leadership role for Occupational Therapy within our Physical Health Team. Initially this will be an 18-month fixed term contract This is a part time post with a minimum of 22.5 hours and a maximum of 30 hours per week. If you are interested in this post and wish to work full time, please do get in touch with us to discuss. Our working hours are Monday to Friday between the hours of 8.30am and 5.00pm.

The integrated therapies service provides specialist community clinical care for babies, children and young people living across Hampshire, Southampton, and Portsmouth, who are referred to the service for physical and developmental health needs. The service also supports partners and stakeholders in the delivery of support at a targeted and universal level (through training, guidance, and consultation).

We are passionate about keeping children and families at the heart of everything we do by involving families in the coproduction and, where possible, co-design of service developments.

This post ensures a job plan which develops your skills across the four pillars.

Main duties of the job

Provide visionary professional and clinical leadership to a diverse team of Occupational Therapists, apprentices, and Therapy Assistants to develop, flourish and provide the best outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Work in collaboration with the Clinical Leads for Nursing, Drs, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy as well as our operational Service Managers for our localities across Hampshire, Southampton, and Portsmouth and the Children and Families Leadership Team.

Strengthen existing partnerships and develop new ones with local authorities, acute service providers and community and voluntary sector organisations including parent carer networks and charities

Identify priorities for the service from national/international guidance and from the RCOT to ensure that the service maintains its reputation for innovative development. There is a strong QI culture within the team and significant transformation plans developed in Co-production with those who use the service. You will be essential to continuation of these plans as well as development of new activity.

Provide highly-specialist clinical Occupational Therapy as agreed within your overall job plan. You will provide a level of Occupational Therapy practice that is at or equivalent to advanced practice for children and families within community healthcare. You will be able to support clinical reasoning and supervision across all clinical areas.

Ensure governance, research and improvement methodology underpins service changes

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.