Clinical Lead Paediatric Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,490.00 to £66,239.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59490.00 - £66239.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, N7 9LD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0399 |
Summary
1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care. 2. To complete a thorough review of current caseload and models of service deliver to ensure an equitable service to all 3. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management 4. To clinically lead a team of OTs including provision of a robust clinical supervision framework to more junior OTs and Therapy Assistants. 5. To work within a legal framework for those service users who lack the capacity to consent to treatment. 6. To have skills and experience in managing complex caseloads including those requiring manual handling support and specialist equipment 7. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and that of the team. 8. To engage the child, family and carers in OT intervention and consider co-production in service development. 9. To use evidence-based practice, audits, and published research including national and local clinical guidelines to inform own practice and that of the team. To have an advanced knowledge of national and local standards that may impact on own and the departments practice. 10. To ensure clinical policies are adhered to by a range of professionals including school staff 11. To work within Trust, Health Professions Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) Standards of Practice. To adhere at all times to personal and professional standards which reflect credit on the profession and encourage others to do likewise. 12. To take a lead at clinical management meetings to ensure the delivery of a well co-ordinated multidisciplinary service including interprofessional / transdisciplinary working and delivery of integrated service. 13. To be responsible for undertaking risk assessments of patients under own care. Document the risk assessment on the appropriate form. 14. To maintain, develop and continually update highly specialist knowledge and own competency to practice through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) activities. 15. To maintain a portfolio, which reflects personal and professional development (clinical, managerial and leadership), complying with your agreed personal development plan. 16. To work collaboratively with multi-agency professionals to develop comprehensive support packages for children and their families living with complex disabling conditions, ensuring appropriate service provision in response to changing clinical and/or social situations, including transition stages. 17. To keep informed of activities in professional clinical groups relevant to area of Paediatric Occupational Therapy, to cascade information and incorporate standards into local practice as appropriate 18. To ensure full understanding of legal frameworks of formulating advice for EHC, to have robust evidence-based report writing skills and be able to contribute advice to inform a Tribunal Process as required.