CYPS Occupational Therapist

Government of The United Kingdom; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Government of The United Kingdom’s CYPS Occupational Therapy Lead role in Gloucestershire leads the Home Safety Team and supports children and young people aged 0-18 (19 in education) across the county. The post focuses on embedding a compassionate leadership culture aligned to Trust values and on staff wellbeing.

You will drive integrated working, quality improvement and robust clinical pathways, champion inclusivity and digital care, and deputise for CYPS Leads when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed a compassionate leadership culture aligned to Trust values.
• Drive integrated working across CYPS Directorate with focus on quality improvement and robust audit.
• Champion inclusivity and personalised care for children and young people.
• Develop digitally enabled care pathways and robust clinical outcomes measures.
• Deputise for CYPS Leads/Heads when required and support out-of-hours services if needed.

Job description

CYPS Occupational Therapy (OT) includes the Home Safety Team and supports children and young people aged 0-18 years old (19 years if in education) within Gloucestershire. The service has a countywide remit and operates within a locality structure. Key bases are in Cheltenham, Gloucester with some satellite clinical provision in rural localities.

Job description and main duties

Alongside other CYPS Leads, make an active contribution too Embedding a positive, supportive and compassionate leadership culture across CYPS aligned to GHC Trust Values where staff health & wellbeing is maintained as a key priority.

• Supporting integrated working and activity across the CYPS Directorate with the vision of supporting children and young people as an Integrated Directorate to have healthier and happier lives and reach their potential. Through delegated tasks, to support continuous improvement of quality and clinical aspects of service provision through robust audit, Quality Improvement (QI), evaluation, system change and innovation.
• Reflect local demographic & health needs and priorities and contributing to addressing and reducing health inequalities
• Implement learning from successes, setbacks & continuous improvement cycles
• Champion inclusivity and the recognition that personalised care is key to meeting the range of differing needs of children and young people within Gloucestershire.
• Ensure establishing new systems and processes are robust and sustainable and deliver real value
• Champion opportunities to develop digitally enabled care throughout the clinical pathwayo

Lead the implementation of robust and reportable clinical outcome measures to enhance clinical service delivery Ensure clinical delivery is managed through robust processes and pathways, including reflecting key principles and deliverables within the Care Aims Framework/THRIVE/ Levels of Intervention or other models of delivery Deputise for CYPS Leads/Heads when required. Contribute to providing out of hours services if requested by CYPS Management As delegated, ensure all complaints and incidents are investigated within agreed Trust policy, procedures and time scales and effect any necessary learning changes to practice and service that may result. As delegated, to lead team/professional practice development including identifying areas requiring evaluation/audit, deep dive or other evaluative review. Uphold team/service based Standard Operational Procedures/Operational Handbooks and contribute to annual review and development Be accountable for maintaining and developing own profession based skills, knowledge & core competencies by specific standards and Code of Conduct. This will be through regular continuing professional development (CPD) activities including reflective practice, maintenance of a personal portfolio and the attendance of relevant training courses as identified within annual appraisal process The Trust is required to work in line with the