Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy

Wanted please: one aspiring creative and inspirational leader to be the Newham Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy. You are a rule-breaker. An ask-permission-later innovator. You are all about the place. And the people. In person. You're all over meaningful intervention too. You don't know all the answers, but you know how to get us all to work them out together. You like a challenge and take on slightly more than you should. You make mistakes we all get better from., In return you get to represent an amazing group of OTs, assistants, sports and health coaches, peer support workers, gardening and recovery college leads who are already making a huge contribution to the directorate's strategic aims. You will have a supportive and encouraging directorate management team alongside you, and a range of enthusiastic partners in the borough keen to collaborate. Learning opportunities will come thick and fast. Your Newham experiences will fire the rest of your career., The Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy is responsible for the strategic and operational management of all adult and older adult mental health occupational therapy provision across the borough of Newham. They also hold professional responsibility for occupational therapists in adult Learning Disability services and have overall responsibility for the peer support work provision in Newham. As a member of the Directorate management team, they play an important role in translating strategic direction, vision and priorities into meaningful service provision across inpatient and community services. The Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy should be visible, inspirational and able to influence beyond the occupational therapy service, across the organisation as well as relevant system partners.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.