Principal Occupational Therapist

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Principal Occupational Therapist, with strategic accountability for our Independent Living Service comprising Occupational Therapy Team, Disability Housing Team and Community Equipment Service promoting and governing strengths-based practice and developing excellent services.

Working closely with the Service Manager for Independent Living, this is a unique opportunity to help define our future journey and lead the service through an ongoing period of change and service improvement, whilst ensuring every member of the team is working towards our shared vision for Adult Social Care.

Working collaboratively with multiple services, including hospital-based colleagues and neighbourhood teams you will put measures in place to ensure the service is well led and meets practice standards. You will apply your extensive knowledge and skills to ensure people with highly complex health and social work needs are supported, promoting a personalised approach, reducing risk and focusing on the well-being and prevention agendas.

As a qualified and registered Occupational Therapist, you will have a passion to lead person centred strengths-based practice, drive opportunities for innovation and promote and develop best practice within the Independent Living Service.

Having significant leadership experience, you will want to work for a service that believes that people are at their healthiest and happiest when they are supported to remain independent, close to the people they love, in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with the right drive and ambition to join our highly motivated leadership team. The successful applicant will be a strategic thinker and share our enthusiasm to dive performance and service development to ensure people live better lives in the communities in which they live and call home.

We are a forward-thinking Council that is developing innovative approaches to meet our challenges. Focusing on People, Place and Partnerships, this is a great time to join us. We have developed a 5-year Vision and Strategy for Adult Social Care to help support the our journey. Working closely with all our partners our vision for the future is to see every person in South Tyneside with care and support needs "Living Better Lives", to fully utilise their strengths and assets, to remain safe and well; in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home.

Joining us at this time will ensure you are at the forefront of helping to develop and embed co-production and co-delivery, delivering new models of working through our Adult Social Care framework and contributing to our ambitious and plans to fully embed our strengths-based practice, improve services and deliver better outcomes for the people of South Tyneside.