Job Description

Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) with a passion for and experience of developing others? Are you enthusiastic about rehabilitation and the opportunity to be part of a Rehab and Reablement team that regularly celebrates success and positive outcomes? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Clinical Lead OT within our multidisciplinary team (MDT) - Intermediate Care Lambeth (ICL).



Supported by an Integrated leadership team spanning Clinical, Business Support and Adult Social Care, the role offers opportunities to further develop your leadership and operational management skills by enabling you to take a key role in the implementation of a number of exciting service development initiatives within a fast-paced environment. Alongside this, you will use your advanced clinical skills to lead multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical excellence.



The postholder should have proven leadership and management ability, have excellent communication, interpersonal and networking skills and be able to work flexibly and under pressure.



You should be committed to delivering a high-quality service through your knowledge of evidence-based practice and clinical governance. You will have the ability to encourage and motivate others and be experienced in leading on and leading others through service improvement projects.



Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 19 years and older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.

Our service aims to:

Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.



Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation and care support to promote functional independence.

Our Professional Offer to You:

Further develop your clinical skills, e.g. assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptions, cognitive assessment, functional and moving and handling assessments.



Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.



Develop management and operational skills.



Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.



Support you to be involved in OT meetings.



Provide you with supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT we are committed to providing:

Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our community and Hospital settings.



An annual appraisal and PDR.



Structured in-service development programmes and supervisions.



Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.



Training links to London Southbank and King's College Universities.



Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:

From our 5 main hospitals, and in the community, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well as clinical research, innovation, education and training.



We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and families.



As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we re able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We're ranked top in England for the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.



Together with our partners in King's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.



Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the futre. GKT School of Medical Education is our medical school, run jointly with King's College London and King's college Hospital.



We're guided by our values in everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve.



Job Summary



To support the Service Lead by providing day to day operational and clinical management for teams within the service in the borough, providing cover for other similar posts and ensuring that, where ever possible, systems and processes are aligned across both boroughs.



On behalf of the Integrated Intermediate Care service, to lead on specific areas of clinical practice development, governance, service improvement and care pathway development across the acute- community interface and across organisations.



Provide clinical leadership, including supervision, to multidisciplinary staff working in the Rehab and Reablement service in order to promote high standards of clinical practice across the service. Maintain and improve all aspects of clinical governance, evidence-based practice and quality assurance in designated areas, including identifying and implementing clinical research, audit and data collection priorities.



Provide leadership, communication and liaison with hospital and other community health and social care teams to ensure that the community pathways are as streamlined and efficient as possible.



Use expert clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the teams whilst maintaining a clinical caseload of highly complex patients. Contribute to and support the management team in strategic planning and development of these service areas across Lambeth and Southwark.