Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Paediatrics

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist for its Paediatrics Team. This role involves managing a diverse team, ensuring high-quality service delivery, and fostering staff development. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional leadership skills and a commitment to evidence-based practice. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the occupational therapy strategy while actively engaging in research and training. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic healthcare environment, where your expertise will help drive excellence in patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing clinical caseloads and leading a team.
• Expert knowledge in paediatrics and occupational therapy practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and operational management for the team.
• Ensure quality, evidence-based service delivery in paediatrics.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Occupational Therapy

Staff Management

Interpersonal Skills

Evidence-Based Practice

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Relevant Postgraduate Qualification

Job description

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Paediatrics

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Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist in Paediatrics Team managing 3 staff members between Band 4 and Band 7 levels.

Provides clinical leadership to the Paediatrics Occupational therapy service.

Lead the service providing day to day leadership and operational management to the team and delegating to junior staff as appropriate.

Contributes to the overall Occupational therapy strategy for OT at Denmark Hill site.

The role of the clinical lead occupational therapist is to ensure their service area provides a quality service which is evidence-based, effective and efficient. The role also requires a focus on staff management, engaging staff in an attitude of excellence and instilling confidence, focusing on providing thorough inductions and training to enable staff to provide the best service and strive for continual improvement.

The clinical lead provides leadership by demonstrating highly specialist knowledge (theory and practice) within the area of Paediatrics, managing and supporting others to manage a complex clinical caseload. Team management is a core component of this role with the clinical lead taking responsibility for the provision of their service. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to work across services and disciplines to provide a coordinated and integrated service. As an expert the clinical lead will make an active contribution to training both within and external to the organisation. The clinical lead will be actively nationally through specialist interest groups, conferences and study days and also be actively engaged in research opportunities.

The post requires a flexible approach to working and a commitment to weekend working as required.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Our values at King’s, are that we’re a kind, respectful team.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level

King’s is dedicated to embracing the broad diversity of our staff, patients and communities and stand firmly against all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Brian Simelane Job title: Deputy Head of Occupational Therapy Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02032998123

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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