About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your leadership career? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to become the Occupational Therapy Team Manager at Antelope House.
We are looking for someone who shares our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve.
At Antelope House, we are dedicated to the treatment and recovery of mental health. We recognise the whole person and meet them where they are at. Our patients want someone who is kind, approachable, caring, trustworthy and honest. And the same can be said for the team you will lead.
As the Occupational Therapy Team Manager, you will provide leadership, support and professional development to Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and AHP Support Staff. The role combines operational and professional leadership with a specialist clinical caseload, enabling you to maintain and develop your clinical expertise while supporting workforce development and service improvement.
Main duties of the job
Antelope House has four wards. Saxon Ward (for men) and Trinity Ward (for women) both treat people with a functional mental illnesses -- such as depression, a personality disorder or schizophrenia. Hamtun Ward, is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) whilst Abbey Ward is a female acute ward.
Main duties and tasks include
To contribute to the inter-disciplinary working within the inpatient mental health therapy team and locality by teaching, learning & practicing inter-disciplinary skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework or training scheme.
Be responsible for the planning, development, and delivery of occupational therapy at Antelope House hospital. And consider additional allied health professional roles to enhance the therapeutic offer at Antelope House.
Provide professional leadership, supervision and workforce development within inpatient and community settings.
Drive service improvement and innovation through the use of audit, outcome measures and service user feedback.
Support effective caseload management and patient flow across mental health pathways.
Represent the AHP workforce within operational, governance and service development forums.
Support student education, practice placements and the development of future AHP professionals.
Contribute to clinical governance, professional standards and wider AHP initiatives across the Trust.
There is scope to work clinically where appropriate, to support direct patient care and clinical leadership.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registration with HPC
- Practice Placement qualification
Desirable
- Post graduate training relevant to mental health.
- Short specialist course relevant to mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Leadership and management experience
- Supervision of staff and students on placement
- Significant experience of working in mental health settings
- Documented evidence of Continual Professional Development
- Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in OT and mental health
- Ability to work under pressure and set own priorities.
- Resolution of professional / ethical issues
- Effective leadership skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Planning and decision-making skills
- Computer literacy
- Understanding of current mental health policy and practice and implication for occupational therapy
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Working knowledge of clinical governance
- State registration with HCPC
- Commitment to person centred non-discriminatory practice
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Willingness to be flexible.
- Health, safety and risk awareness.
- Membership of Professional Body
Desirable
- Experience of a range of mental health settings
- Research experience.
- Service/Practice innovation.
- Leadership / Management training
- Masters /Masters modules
- Experience of a range of relevant mental health settings
- Management experience
- Presentation and training skills
- Knowledge of recruitment and selection procedures
- Familiar with the Model of Human Occupation, Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and the Vdt Model of Creative Ability
Additional Criteria
Essential
- What our services users expect of this post holder:
- Approachable
- Caring
- Trustworthy and honest
- Integrity
- Good listening skills
- Non-judgmental
- Motivational skills
- Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice
- Enthusiastic
- Energetic and fun
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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Antelope House
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)