Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health
Are you ready to lead and inspire?
Join us as a Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health and take on an exciting role that combines leadership, clinical expertise, and transformative work.
Why This Role?
- Leadership & Governance: Provide clinical and leadership oversight and support to our adult communities’ occupational therapists.
- Clinical Excellence: Retain a clinical role, ensuring hands-on involvement and impact.
- Flexible Working: Operate across the Trust, with responsibilities in West Surrey and North East Hants.
- Professional Development: Benefit from a robust CPD program and development opportunities.
- Innovative Practices: Utilize the Model of Human Occupation for assessments and interventions, offering both individual and group work.
Be Part of a Dynamic Team
- Collaborative Environment: Monthly leadership team meetings to drive strategic initiatives.
- Supportive Network: Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to mental health transformation.
Make a Difference
If you’re passionate about mental health and ready to lead, apply now and be a part of our mission to transform lives.
The position provides leadership across the adult communities and based at Community Mental Health Recovery Services in East Surrey . The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within all the Communities services, as need arises.
We would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Job Overview
1. To provide compassionate and effective leadership to the occupational therapists within the service/locality/sector.
2. To contribute to the overall leadership of the service/locality/sector.
3. To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
4. To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies.
5. To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.
6. To ensure the delivery occupational therapy student placements.
7. To lead on service development and audits both within individual services and the wider occupational therapy service.
8. To be an active member of the overall occupational therapy leadership team.
9. To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications, skills and experinence
Essential criteria
- • Occupational Therapy professional qualification
- • Extensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex needs
- • Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
- • Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
- • Experience of contributing to service development/project work
- • Experience of providing supervision
- • Experience of supporting students on placement
- • Experience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
- • Demonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills
Desirable criteria
- • In depth knowledge of group therapy and experience of facilitating groups
Qulaifications Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- • Clinical supervision training
- • Fieldwork educators training
- • Leadership training
- • Additional academic or clinical qualifications/training relevant to area of practice
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
