Highly Specialist Clinical Team Leader - OT

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

This role will provide effective management and clinical leadership in the Community mental health Occupational Therapy teams across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR). The post holder will have specialist knowledge and experience, and act as the expert for the multi-agency team and for patients. This role will also include being part of professional and service development across the team.

Our Occupational Therapy Service covers 7 adult CMHT's, with both Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistants working into all teams, delivering high quality and specialist OT assessment and intervention across LLR.'

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths., The successful candidate will be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of the Occupational Therapy (OT) process (info gathering, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, evaluation and discharge planning) as appropriate to patient needs. Carryinga specialist clinical caseload and manage this effectively through clinical supervision. This will encompass the complex needs of the patient group. Provide advanced clinical reasoning to support effective care delivery for highly specialist and complex cases for the team and provide aspects of clinical and operational leadership as agreed with the Clinical/Service Leads to ensure high quality and effective service delivery.

The post holder is responsible for the effective management of referrals and waiting lists, case prioritisation and care co-ordination within clinical care pathways, beingjointly responsible for reviewing the Occupational Therapy Service and ensuring the skill mix and therapeutic programme content meets the needs of the patients attendingand or lead clinical case reviews and present appropriate OT feedback accordingly.

To maintain accurate and timely patient records in the electronic patient record and to fulfil record keeping standards in accordance with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust policy, RCOT and HCPC. To participate and lead as agreed, relevant clinical, team and professional meetings to contribute to the optimum level of care for the patients., patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working