Team Leader - Occupational Therapist

HCRG Care Group; Luton; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider seeks a Band 6 Occupational Therapist in Luton to deliver expert clinical leadership and ensure high standards in multidisciplinary care. The role demands an Occupational Therapy degree, HCPC registration and offers an annual salary between £46,148 to £52,809 alongside a variety of professional development opportunities and benefits.

Benefits

NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms

Free tea, coffee, and milk at the base location

Membership of My Reward Hub for discounts

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Continuing professional development opportunities

Innovation funding for ideas

Qualifications

• Professionals must have a degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration.
• Need for highly developed professional knowledge based on educational and diverse work environments.
• Experience in audit and understanding clinical governance is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the inpatient therapy team and provide high-quality service delivery.
• Manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
• Supervise team members in accordance with policy.

Skills

Multidisciplinary working

Clinical Governance

Audit

Education

Occupational Therapy Degree

HCPC Registration

Job description

Are you a Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge?

We are seeking a skilled and experienced clinician to provide expert clinical leadership within our multidisciplinary team. This role involves acting as a professional leader and clinical exemplar while maintaining accountability for both personal and delegated clinical tasks. You will contribute to service strategy development, shape clinical standard operating procedures, and establish strong internal and external networks. Additionally, you will represent the team at Trust and strategic meetings, ensuring high standards of care and service delivery.

Within this role you will be required to cover shifts, 7 days a week 8am to 8pm across site.

Main Responsibility

As a Occupational Therapist Lead you will be required to provide skilled team leadership, ensuring an effective, high quality service is delivered within the inpatient therapy team

• To use highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills to manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner
• To act as a specialist resource for the multi-disciplinary team both on the ward and the wider community services
• To work with the MDT to develop, monitor and evaluate the service, including organising and implementing service development and change as appropriate
• To plan and prioritise the service’s delivery to ensure appropriate management of patients
• Ensure supervision of staff members within the team is being undertaken as per policy

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description.

The Ideal Candidate

Qualification

• Occupational Therapy Degree
• HCPC Registration

Experience

• Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments.
• Knowledge of current political drivers in relation to health and social care issues
• Highly developed knowledge of general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity.

Skills & Knowledge

• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of audit
• Understanding & involvement of Clinical Governance and risk assessment

Special Requirements

• To be able to cover shifts 7 days a week 8am-8pm

For a full person spec please see attached Job Description.

Package Description

As a Team Leader -Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at our service in Luton.

You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapistwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148- £52,809Band 7with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• 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 life’s 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 you’re 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

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re 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 doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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• Job Category HCRG - Allied Health Professionals