Occupational Therapist - Clinical Lead / Learning Difficulties

Our client has a rewarding Clinical LeadOccupational Therapist vacancy, in their college.
Our client is an independent specialist day college for young people with learning disabilities and difficulties.
The college offers a wide range of programmes that are tailored to each individual's needs.
Our Client operates from several sites across; Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, with their main site located in Eckington.
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Clinical LeadOccupational Therapist
Salary: £38,000.00 - £42,000.00 DoE
Location: Sheffield/ Eckington- Main site
Hours: Full time 37.5 p/w - (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Client Group: Young People with Learning Disabilities & Difficulties - College
No Sponsorship Available.
Job Role:
Responsibilities will include, but are not restricted to:
* To lead the occupational therapy team including service development, clinical governance and professional standards for the occupational therapy service to the learners and their family/carers.
* To share responsibility for all monitoring and quality assurance activity and play an integral role in developing staff and raising standards across the College in relation to areas of occupational therapy practice.
* To carry out occupational therapy service audits to influence financial budgets.
* To develop and review the relevant policies and procedures relevant to clinical area.
* To develop and lead on training programmes relevant to clinical area across the whole college.
* To lead on and quality assure for discipline the assessment, recording and reporting of learner progress.
* To be involved in external professional development forums, potentially including research and external presenting.
* To be responsible for monitoring the delivery of provision to ensure that delivery complies with the schedule agreed with the funding body.
* Establishing and maintaining external relationships, including co-ordination and quality monitoring of community working agreements across the different boroughs ensuring a holistic approach for learners attending the college.
* Co-ordination of submission of written reports for learner review meetings
* To use a person centered approach to promote choice, control, and independence, reflecting the key principals of Valuing People (DOH 2002), Valuing People Now and the Human Rights Act and working towards the Preparing for Adulthood Agenda, in order to enable the learner to achieve his/her academic, social and employment potential.
* To maintain and model the highest level of respect at all times for learners and
their families, modelling person centered and collaborative working, at all times promoting learners human's rights, dignity and individual choices.
* To work with external agencies (e.g. Schools, work placements, social services, community learning disability teams etc.) to ensure a smooth transition of learner's sensory, upper limb, seating and skill development information and equipment, both into and when leaving the college.
* The post involves managing and developing College Occupational Therapy
offer, to provide a high quality service to learners. In addition the post holder is responsible for promoting positive health and providing a comprehensive holistic service to the learners.
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