Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Care of the Older Person

The role of the clinical lead occupational therapist is to ensure their service area provides a quality service which is evidence-based, effective and efficient. The role also requires a focus on staff management, engaging staff in an attitude of excellence, inspiring and motivating staff and leading by strong example to provide the best service, striving for continual improvement.
The clinical lead will possess significant experience and highly specialist clinical knowledge (theory and practice) in the therapy management of older adults in the acute setting with a range of conditions and comorbidities impacting on their physical, cognitive and mental health.
Team management is a core component of this role with the clinical lead taking
responsibility for the provision of their service, managing both their own and supporting others to manage a complex clinical caseload.
Excellent interpersonal skills are required to work across services and disciplines to provide a coordinated, integrated service. As an expert the clinical lead will make an active contribution to training both within and external to the organisation.
The role has work commitments outside of core working hours i.e. late shift and weekend hours., To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge in the clinical area of Occupational Therapy with Older adults, with proven experience of undertaking standardized and non-standardised assessments and therapeutic interventions with this patient cohort.
Manage a complex caseload using excellent organisation, prioritisation and delegation skills and support others in the team to do the same.
To demonstrate the ability to manage risk pertaining to decisions relating to patient care and discharge to achieve safe and positive results for patients.
To be an effective leader, willing to take responsibility and ensure that the allocated service area provides a quality service which is evidence-based, effective and efficient.
To be involved and lead when required, the repatriation process and therapy provision for trauma repatriated patients from major trauma centres.
To be responsible for the operational management of allocated teams supporting both clinically and managerially Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Apprentices and Therapy support staff.
To work closely with the Clinical Leads OT & PT to manage operational responsibilities including recruitment, 7 days staffing rota's, supervision, appraisal, and mandatory training compliance.
To work proactively to support patient flow and timely discharges as an individual practitioner and by providing senior support to allocated teams.
To contribute to the strategic development of the In-patient Therapy Service.

Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., Please apply using the person specification as a guide and ensure demonstration of essential criteria in the supporting information.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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