Lead Occupational Therapist

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Lead Occupational Therapist to work in Nottingham on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week).

The salary for this permanent Lead Occupational Therapist job is £43,742 - £50,952 per annum.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 27 days after 5 years of service and 30 days after 10 years service)
• Birthday Leave
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Contributory pension scheme
• Opportunities to develop and train in a wide variety of care settings
• Support and training from the beginning of your career
• Flexible working
• Supplemented meals
• Access to Employee Assistant programme and other wellness programmes
• Employee benefits scheme (e.g. discounted shopping vouchers, interest free Apple Products loan scheme)

Duties:

• Lead the OT team, including OTs' and OT Assistants, as part of the wider Therapies Team at the hospital
• Develop and provide the necessary assessments and treatments within a busy acute adult mental health and PICU service
• Take responsibility of the development of the OT service
• Providing clinical specialist assessments for the patient group
• Reporting the effectiveness of the service to clinical governance and other performance related meetings
• Advocate and promote the role of OT within the acute/PICU setting
• Form positive working relations with the wider MDT
• Upskill and develop the OT workforce
• Embedded up to date practices and evidence based research into the service from an OTs perspective

Requirements of the Lead Occupational Therapist:

Process driven, an understanding for the therapy pathway to support the patient journey from admission to discharge
Adaptable, to be able to meet the changes of the patient groups needs whilst also establishing stability through purposeful and meaningful activity
Seeking excellence – the drive to change and continuously improve whilst being able to communicate the need for improvement through evidence and data
Must be HCPC registered
Willing to undertake a DBS check
Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy
Previous UK Occupational Therapy experience

Contact:

This Lead Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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