Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist

Options for Care; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Options for Care is seeking a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to manage a dedicated team and provide care for individuals with severe mental health diagnoses. This role involves leadership, assessment, intervention, and promoting recovery-based principles to enhance service-user outcomes across various inpatient services in Birmingham.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered as an occupational therapist.
• Passion for working with severe mental health diagnoses.
• Able to work core hours Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• Manage the performance of the occupational therapy team.
• Deliver and evaluate therapeutic programs and interventions.
• Provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Patient Care

Therapeutic Techniques

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

Options for Care is looking to recruit an exceptional occupationaltherapist, with a passion for working with people who have severe and enduringmental health diagnoses, to manage the occupational therapy team and a smallclinical caseload. We require a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide professional support and leadership to our occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and activity workers who are based across our existing mental health inpatient services in Birmingham:

Montague Court is an 18-bed male long term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Edgbaston, Birmingham

Dartmouth House is a 16-bed male long term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham

Orchard House is an 8-bed residential step-down recovery service based in Erdington, Birmingham; this allows extension of the long-term complex care pathway.

Stanford Court will be a 20-bed male mental health inpatient unit based in Highgate. This will consist of a 15-bed enhanced care service and, contained within the building but outside the main service, five self-contained recovery flats to enable assessment skills in preparation for discharge.

About us

Options for Care supports service-users along a recovery pathway using relationship-centred, best practice interventions and supports individuals to improve their quality of life whilst working towards their personal goals. Service-user outcomes are measured using recognised assessment tools which allow us to evidence our objective of enabling individuals to move towards living in the least restrictive setting possible.

Mission

• Realising potential

Vision

• We offer best practice interventions to enable personal recovery and wellbeing.

Values

• The individual is at the heart of everything we do.
• We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
• We deliver and continuously evaluate high quality services whilst respecting difference, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will beresponsible for managing the performance of the occupational therapy team,providing professional support and leadership. You will manage a small clinicalcaseload comprising of service users from across the organisation, completingassessments, intervention and evaluation of treatment. You will also assist theoccupational therapy team to plan and deliver a range of occupational therapyassessments and interventions promoting recovery and well-being for ourservice-users who are at our hospital sites. You will ensure the therapeuticprogram, including group and individual sessions, is being delivered andevaluated regularly to reflect the needs of the current service-user group.

The MOHOST isestablished as the core occupational therapy assessment tool used across theorganisation, providing evidence of change and focus on occupation. Additionalassessments are completed as led by service-user need.

You will offer clinicalleadership within the multidisciplinary team and represent a senior professionalvoice within the integrated care team. You will work with service-usersdelivering person-centered care, working with individuals towards communityintegration, balancing safety and therapeutic risk taking. You will promote recovery principles with theaim of improving quality of life and achieving maximum independence with eachservice user.

Job description
Job responsibilities

You will beresponsible for managing the performance of the occupational therapy team,providing professional support and leadership. You will manage a small clinicalcaseload comprising of service users from across the organisation, completingassessments, intervention and evaluation of treatment. You will also assist theoccupational therapy team to plan and deliver a range of occupational therapyassessments and interventions promoting recovery and well-being for ourservice-users who are at our hospital sites. You will ensure the therapeuticprogram, including group and individual sessions, is being delivered andevaluated regularly to reflect the needs of the current service-user group.

The MOHOST isestablished as the core occupational therapy assessment tool used across theorganisation, providing evidence of change and focus on occupation. Additionalassessments are completed as led by service-user need.

You will offer clinicalleadership within the multidisciplinary team and represent a senior professionalvoice within the integrated care team. You will work with service-usersdelivering person-centered care, working with individuals towards communityintegration, balancing safety and therapeutic risk taking. You will promote recovery principles with theaim of improving quality of life and achieving maximum independence with eachservice user.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• You must have HCPC registration to work as an occupational therapist.

Experience

Essential

• We are looking for a dynamic individual with a genuine passion for working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses, with a similar enthusiasm for supporting staff to deliver exceptional and innovative services.

Working requirements

Essential

• You must be able to work core hours, predominantly 09:00-17:00, with a usual working week of Monday-Friday.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• You must have HCPC registration to work as an occupational therapist.

Experience

Essential

• We are looking for a dynamic individual with a genuine passion for working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses, with a similar enthusiasm for supporting staff to deliver exceptional and innovative services.

Working requirements

Essential

• You must be able to work core hours, predominantly 09:00-17:00, with a usual working week of Monday-Friday.

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Options for Care
Address

70-72

Handsworth Wood Road

Birmingham

B20 2DT

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