Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Oxford Clinic
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team at the Oxford Clinic, a medium secure forensic inpatient service, consisting of 3 wards (Evenlode, Kennet, Glyme Wards). Referrals are accepted from other adult or forensic services, prison or high secure hospitals.
You’ll provide clinical leadership to the OT team as well as the service at Oxford Clinic. You’ll deliver specialised OT therapy interventions as well as monitoring and auditing outcomes, ensuring high standards of care and leadership throughout.
You’ll mentor and manage junior staff, fostering their professional growth. Leading by example, you’ll share your expertise and guide the team in delivering best practices in forensic mental health care. This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated and innovative team making a real difference to the lives of the patients in our care.
We offer excellent flexible working options and well‑developed learning and development provisions within the Trust to enhance your skills and widen your knowledge base.
Ensure you hold HCPC registration if you are based outside of the UK.
Main duties of the job
* Through assessment, identify patients strengths and needs and to co‑ordinate and facilitate suitable therapy programmes to meet those needs. This should involve use of the Recovery approach and be socially inclusive in practice. Also should use OT models of practice and standardised assessment tools (MOHO).
* Develop and maintain relevant therapeutic activities as appropriate to the patient group served, including opportunities for cognitive, creative, education, work, leisure, interpersonal, spiritual and life skills. Where possible to ensure interventions are evidence based.
* Line manage OT staff/PFP at Oxford Clinic.
* Contribute to the achievement of performance targets for Oxford Clinic through a leadership role.
* Participate in the process of establishing, monitoring and reviewing policies and procedures common to the profession and clinical services in the care group and Trust.
* To be involved in the recruitment and selection for OT posts in the forensic service.
* Participate in the delivery of service improvement plans for OT Trust wide.
* Manage the Oxford Clinic OT budget.
* Participate in and support research projects in the Trust and to develop research initiatives as appropriate to the service. To encourage and support staff in the process of research.
Qualifications
* BSc/MSc Occupational Therapy
* HCPC Registration
Experience
* Significant experience working as a Senior Occupational Therapist
* Experience working as a Lead Occupational Therapist
Expertise
* Experience working in Forensic Mental Health/Prisons
Training
* Leadership trained
* Sensory trained
* Trauma Informed Care trained
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.
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year plus an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum.
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