Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy | East London NHS Foundation Trust

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.

To plan and manage a high-quality mental health occupational therapy (OT) service within the directorate. To develop the OT service in a direction compatible with the NHS Long Term Plan, Trust strategy/Triple Aim: ensure that service user experience, staff experience, population health and value are developed in a mutually reinforcing way.

To lead and line manage the Newham Mental Health Occupational Therapy Service: provide professional leadership for all Occupational Therapy staff within the directorate - including both working age,older adult and learning disability services. To ensure the provision of clinical, professional and management supervision, as well as yearly appraisal review for all staff. To ensure staff develop skills and explore new ways of working suited to the goals of trust strategy and NHS Long-Term Plan. To be responsible for developing and maintaining a creative and dynamic service culture that makes the best of each member's potential.

To be part of the directorate senior leadership team (DMT), representing OT services and ensuring OT contributes to local priorities to the fullest extent, taking a lead role in collaboration with other disciplines. To participate in locality planning and development in collaboration with the senior leadership team, taking a lead on specific projects as required.

Take a lead role in building service relationships within the borough that support the development of supportive pathways for service user recovery and inclusion. These may be internal (for example maintain good collaboration with therapies colleagues) or external (IPS services, links to community assets and third sector provision, service user organisations and co-production, acute hospital, community health and local authority).

To lead and line manage the provision of non-registered professionals linked to the occupational therapy service including occupational therapy support workers, sports therapy, health coaches and therapeutic gardening leads.

To ensure quality improvement remains an ongoing focus of the service.

To hold overall responsibility for the Peer support worker workforce in Newham Mental Health services, including budgetary responsibility.

To be the Directorate Management Team (DMT) lead for the Recovery college, including line management of Recovery College Manager.

To be the DMT Lead for employment support including Individual Placement and Support (IPS) provision.

To be a key member of the Trustwide AHP Leadership team.

To be part of the on-call managers rota for the Newham Mental Health Directorate.