Lead Occupational Therapist

As a Lead occupational therapist in TEWV you will provide clinical leadership and professional management for Occupational Therapy in the designated service area, managing a complex caseload independently, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational interventions, ensuring the highest professional standards of care are maintained and demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times and operating as a leader in the team, service and organisation, To be responsible for the delivery of occupational therapy services across the designated service area.

To provide specialist advice to occupational therapy staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team and wider.

To be responsible for receiving complex requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.

To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.

To participate in and provide clinical/professional and management supervision

To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working

To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives

To use the Trust electronic patient record system

To abide by all Trust policies and procedures, You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in TEWV, to develop a way of delivering a high quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all of the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic full-time Band 7 Lead Occupational Therapist to lead Occupational Therapy in Health and Justice. The role covers services in the community and prison. The clinical element of the role is flexible and can be negotiated within Health and Justice Services. The post is full time for 10 months fixed term/secondment opportunity to cover maternity leave.