Therapy Team Lead- Adult services

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

The closing date is 25 October 2024

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled and motived Occupational Therapist to join our well established leadership team. The successful candidate will oversee a small therapy team overseeing our provision into adult mental health services. The role will involve some service development, which will see setting up, running and evaluating the therapy team within our adult community and acute services. The successful candidate will report directly into the Allied Health Professional Lead and work closely alongside the current therapy team leads to ensure a streamlined service for our service users.

If you are passionate about service development and delivery, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To develop, monitor and evaluate the Therapy service alongside the AHP lead.

To supervise and support a small team of Therapy staff

To hold a caseload of service users, both in the community and in our acute setting. Providing specialised assessment, intervention and evaluation of Occupational Therapy interventions.

To work alongside the therapy services leadership team to ensure streamlined services across the whole of Navigo.

To provide supervision and support to members of the Therapy Team.

To support the development of AHP students.

To see a more in-depth description please refer to the Job Description.

About us

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being. We are an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we featured in the Best Companies top 100 large company list and were named sixth best health and social care company 2023.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre and two cafes.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Come join us!

Date posted

09 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B9816-391

Job locations

The Cedars / Weelsby View

Grimsby

DN33 2BA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Our Job Description encapsulates the skills needed to comply with the four pillars of practice, namely Professional Practice, which includes maintaining occupation at the centre of practice, to deliver safe, effective, person-centred and ethical practice and to use professional judgement and evidence-based critical reasoning to make decisions.

Facilitation of Learning, which includes inspiring, teaching, mentoring, supervising and/or assessing others. To facilitate practice-based and work-based learning.

Leadership, which includes identifying, monitoring and enhancing own and others knowledge, skills and ways of thinking. To lead, guide and/or facilitate teamwork. To influence, design, plan and implement professional and/or organisational change.

The final pillar is Research and Development which includes accessing, evaluating and implementing evidence to inform practice. To initiate, design, participate in and disseminate research. To engage with and influence broader socio-economic and political agendas.

Skills will include highly developed communication skills to conduct functional assessments. To communicate complex information related to an individuals mental health needs to service users, carers and multidisciplinary teams. Skills will include being able to communicate complex, sensitive information where there are barriers to understanding. This will include issues such as safeguarding, cognitive impairment, physical complex needs that may directly or indirectly contribute to mental health.

Candidates will maintain and develop effective communications and working relationships with both internal and external teams, reporting back outcomes of OT assessments and interventions.

To promote and implement creative ways of working with clients that show personalised and individualised interventions.

To promote education to service users, carers regarding outcomes of OT assessments, and similarly educate and support other Navigo staff working with clients in both community and acute settings.

Instigate, develop and maintain relationships with service users and/or carers, and support staff to facilitate accurate assessment and delivery of care.

To manage highly confidential information in accordance with local and national policy.

To Act as lead professional when indicated for specialist assessment where the main intervention is occupational therapy.

To promote the role of OT by feeding back in meetings, presentations and feedback of OT clinical activities. The candidate will have or be engaged in developing specialist knowledge and training, gained through formal training.

Have skills and experience in developing and facilitating training to staff and students.

To provide advice, training and support to other agencies around issues relating to mental health, and if indicated physical health needs .

Maintain CPD portfolio to demonstrate lifelong learning and professional competence. The candidate will be able to make decisions about the range of options for OT interventions and care plans based on clinical judgement of a service users need.

To conduct comprehensive OT assessments of both service users and carers in line with team operational policies.

Analyse service users occupational performance areas and adapt interventions as required in order to maximise and maintain service users skills and function.

To formulate detailed assessments to inform the decision-making regarding service users ongoing needs.

To plan and coordinate OT care packages for both individuals and groups according to their identified occupational needs.

To coordinate transfer of referral of clients to other teams or services where required.

To priorities, plan and coordinate own workload and activities in line with the changing needs of the team and service. This includes planning and monitoring service user occupational needs and presentation, conducting assessments, ensuring patient records are up to date and supporting colleagues on a daily basis.

To participate in caseload management and ensure relevant information is available for this to take place.

To be trained in RESPECT, our corporate de-esclatation philosophy, and undertake regular updates.

To undertake occupational therapy assessments for service users using standardised and non standardised OT assessment tools, to identify and address occupational performance and skill deficits.

To assess and review service users clinical risk management plan.

To collaborate with service users/carers to identify OT goals as part of the overall care plan.

To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions in collaboration with service user, design graded activity and person centred principles to achieve therapeutic goals.