Job summary
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 duties of the job
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 services 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.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
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
- Significant relevant B6 experience
- Leadership experience
- 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
- To work cross site
For a full person spec please see attached Job Description.
As a Team Leader -Occupational Therapist, youll 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
- Plentiful on site-parking
- 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
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
- Significant relevant B6 experience
- Leadership experience
- 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
- To work cross site
For a full person spec please see attached Job Description.
As a Team Leader -Occupational Therapist, youll 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
- Plentiful on site-parking
- 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
