Deputy Clinical Lead - OT

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job description

Job Summary

Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) with a passion for and experience of developing others? Are you enthusiastic about rehabilitation and the opportunity to be part of a Rehab and Reablement team that regularly celebrates success and positive outcomes? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Clinical Lead OT within our multidisciplinary team (MDT) - Intermediate Care Lambeth (ICL).

Supported by an Integrated leadership team spanning Clinical, Business Support and Adult Social Care, the role offers opportunities to further develop your leadership and operational management skills by enabling you to take a key role in the implementation of a number of exciting service development initiatives within a fast-paced environment. Alongside this, you will use your advanced clinical skills to lead multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical excellence.

The postholder should have proven leadership and management ability, have excellent communication, interpersonal and networking skills and be able to work flexibly and under pressure.

You should be committed to delivering a high-quality service through your knowledge of evidence-based practice and clinical governance. You will have the ability to encourage and motivate others and be experienced in leading on and leading others through service improvement projects.

Main Duties of the Job

Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 19 years and older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.

Our Service Aims to:

1. Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
2. Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation and care support to promote functional independence.

Our Professional Offer to You:

1. Further develop your clinical skills, e.g. assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptions, cognitive assessment, functional and moving and handling assessments.
2. Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
3. Develop management and operational skills.
4. Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
5. Support you to be involved in OT meetings.
6. Provide you with supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT we are committed to providing:

1. Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our community and Hospital settings.
2. An annual appraisal and PDR.
3. Structured in-service development programmes and supervisions.
4. Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
5. Training links to London Southbank and King's College Universities.
6. Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations.

About Us

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:

From our 5 main hospitals, and in the community, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well as clinical research, innovation, education and training.

We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and families.

As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we are able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We're ranked top in England for the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.

Together with our partners in King's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.

Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future. GKT School of Medical Education is our medical school, run jointly with King's College London and King's College Hospital.

We're guided by our values in everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve.

Date Posted: 23 April 2025

Pay Scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £61,927 to £68,676 a year p.a. inc HCA

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full-time

Reference Number: 196-LIS9461

Job Locations:

The Whittington Centre, 11-13 Rutford Road, London, SW16 2DQ

Job Responsibilities:

To support the Service Lead by providing day to day operational and clinical management for teams within the service in the borough, providing cover for other similar posts and ensuring that, wherever possible, systems and processes are aligned across both boroughs.

On behalf of the Integrated Intermediate Care service, to lead on specific areas of clinical practice development, governance, service improvement and care pathway development across the acute-community interface and across organisations.

Provide clinical leadership, including supervision, to multidisciplinary staff working in the Rehab and Reablement service in order to promote high standards of clinical practice across the service. Maintain and improve all aspects of clinical governance, evidence-based practice and quality assurance in designated areas, including identifying and implementing clinical research, audit and data collection priorities.

Provide leadership, communication and liaison with hospital and other community health and social care teams to ensure that the community pathways are as streamlined and efficient as possible.

Use expert clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the teams whilst maintaining a clinical caseload of highly complex patients. Contribute to and support the management team in strategic planning and development of these service areas across Lambeth and Southwark.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Professional Registration Essential:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development at Masters level including attendance and completion of post graduate courses relevant to own specialty
• HCPC Registration

Desirable:

• Membership of other relevant Special Interest Groups
• Post graduate qualification in appropriate area of specialty e.g. Master's degree
• Full Driver's license

Previous Experience Essential:

• Significant experience of working within relevant specialties including rehabilitation, including management of highly complex patients relevant to own specialty equivalent to master's level
• Significant experience in team management and leadership - preferably MDT.
• Significant experience in operational management of a team - preferably MDT.
• Experience of community working
• Experience of leading clinical governance in clinical area, including risk management, patient experience and audit.
• Experience in leading service development and managing change
• Previous experience of staff and student supervision, appraisal and clinical education
• Previous experience of formal presentations to multi professional groups

Desirable:

• Previous experience working in a Clinical Specialist or team leader role
• Writing articles for publication in recognised journals
• Experience of research methodology

Skills/Knowledge/Ability Essential:

• In-depth knowledge of the clinical specialty. Proven clinical leadership ability
• Exceptional team building and teamwork skills. Demonstrates ability to motivate and manage teams through change positively.
• To demonstrate understanding of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership-working with key stakeholders in the service area
• Able to work independently. To demonstrate advanced skills in dealing independently with complex issues to generate appropriate strategies
• The ability to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment. The ability to develop clear care plans based on best practice
• The ability to assess training needs and target formal and informal training appropriately to stakeholders and service users
• The ability to devise, deliver and evaluate highly specialist training.
• The ability to determine the skill-mix required to meet need in field of service delivery
• Ability to adapt practice to meet individual patients' circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences
• To have a working knowledge of and to be able to interpret relevant local and national clinical policies, procedures and legal frameworks.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office for emails, Word documents, PowerPoints and Excel spreadsheets for clinical administration, training and presentations etc.
• The ability to use information systems to support data collection and analysis. The ability to critically analyse and interpret data. The ability to plan and manage projects such as service evaluation and to organise the participation of others
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and ability to facilitate these in others for caseload and workload management of self and others
• Highly developed communication skills with ability to deal with highly sensitive, emotional, conflicting and contentious matters. Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy, sensitivity, tact and diplomacy. The ability to recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and generate potential solutions
• To demonstrate highly developed negotiation skills across a range of situations. To demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication and report writing and presentation skills
• Able and willing to be flexible in approach to work and responsive to changing demands of the service and clients. Willing and able to take on extended or advanced roles when required

Physical Essential:

• Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities including therapeutic handling and manual techniques
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment including frequent interruptions
• Ability to lift appropriate loads and manually handle patients

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship:

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

UK Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer Details:

Employer Name: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address:

The Whittington Centre, 11-13 Rutford Road, London, SW16 2DQ

Employer's Website: https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx