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Job summary
Priory Hospital Middleton St George
Up to £48,118 depending on experience
Full Time - 37.5 Hours
Priory Hospital Middleton St George has an opportunity for a HCPC registered Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team.
Main duties of the job
As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide clinical, professional and operational leadership to the Occupational Therapy (OT) service, working in collaboration with Therapy Services Manager to ensure OT services are proactive and supportive of Priory objectives. In this role, you will play a key part in patient recovery, supporting the assessment and delivery of tailored treatment plans while ensuring dignity, respect, and high standards of care.
Work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues across the hospital site to support integration around patient care. To deliver a highly specialised and advanced standard of OT assessment, treatment and management for patients. Ensure that own practice and service meets agreed local and national standards and clinical governance requirements, including COT Standards for Practice, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Participate in site service quality improvement initiatives including conducting investigations and Quality monitoring assurance objectives and clinical audit Oversee student placements within the OT team. Attend all site required meetings including Clinical Governance and Patient Safety and represent the OT department. Attend Regional OT meetings and feedback to site Take responsibility for identified budget responsibilities related to role for example; the therapy activity budget. You can find additional information in the attached job description.
About us
Priory Hospital Middleton St George, Darlington, County Durham is a specialist inpatient service for adults with mental health issues, complex needs and behaviours that challenge. It is accessible by public transport, with a local train station approximately 5 miles away and local bus services to Darlington.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Candidates must be HCPC registered and hold a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or Masters degree, or have completed formal postgraduate study (award or non-award bearing). They must have experience in team leadership and driving change, experience supervising Occupational Therapists or Occupational Therapy Assistants and students, a working knowledge of current national and local healthcare issues, and training in relevant models of practice such as MoHO, VdTMoCA, and Sensory Integration.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Priory Healthcare
Address Darlington
Darlington
County Durham
Dl2 1TS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)