Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead

NHS; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent provider of community healthcare is seeking a Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead. You will play a vital role in delivering paediatric Occupational Therapy across various settings while managing a clinical caseload and supervising staff. Join a team committed to transforming health and care and enjoy a supportive environment with a broad range of benefits.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Online and face to face wellness support

Access to discounts through My Reward Hub

Plentiful on-site parking

Qualifications

• 5 or more years post-registration experience.
• Proven experience of supervisory role at Band 6 or above.
• Evidence of professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex clinical caseload of patients.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Ensure high quality and evidence-based clinical service.

Skills

Excellent knowledge of paediatric therapy

Leadership and management skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Registered with Health and Care Professions Council

Job description

Band 7 Children's Occupational Therapist Team Lead

Band 7 Childrens Occupational Therapist.

You will contribute to the overall service delivery model and team advancement within the Integrated Therapy service and help deliver paediatric Occupational Therapy in a variety of settings to include clinic, school, and patients own home across Wiltshire. To be responsible for managing a complex clinical caseload of patients and to maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner and provide clinical and peer supervision of staff across the team and across professions where appropriate.

In this role you will also be responsible for ensuring the service provides a high quality, cost effective and evidence based clinical service to children and young people accessing the service and their families in collaboration with Professional leads, clinical managers and other team leaders.....

Main duties of the job

Patient/client care

To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.

Operational and Administrative Responsibilities

You will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

Financial and physical resources

Be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available in the department.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Band 7 Children\'s Occupational Therapist Team Lead within Integrated Therapies, youll be part of our valued team at our Salisbury, Trowbridge or Chippenham hubs.

You will feel valued as a Integrated Therapies Team Lead, Childrens Occupational Therapist, Band 7 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148 - £52,809 Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Essential

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council.
• Excellent knowledge of paediatric therapy
• Evidence of own professional development
• Proven experience of supervisory role at Band 6 or above.
• Management experience/ training
• Leadership training/experience

Desirable

• Evidence of specialist knowledge which equates to post graduate qualifications
• Evidence of further professional development and study to Masters degree
• Budget management and/or knowledge of implementing cost efficiencies/best value for money practices
• Experience of giving presentations and promoting a service/organisation to relevant stakeholders
• Driving Licence

Experience

• 5 or more Years post-registration experience
• Ability to engage and work within communities
• Experience in patient engagement and audit
• Experience of multiagency partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders
• Evidence of leadership and management skills
• Experience of providing clinical supervision/line management

Knowledge / Skills

• Current knowledge of child Health and Social Care policy
• Up to date knowledge of integrated therapy development- national and local
• Current knowledge of Child Protection/safeguarding procedures
• Evidence of providing evidence base and Child/family-centred care
• Demonstrable skills in clinical engagement, service development, professional leadership and service management
• Able to work across professional and organisational boundaries
• Teaching/group work
• Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively in a variety of settings.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.