Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-GM2033-UPC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bicentennial Building
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum/Pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for a role where every day brings new challenges and the opportunity to change the lives of people in Sussex? Now is the perfect time to be part of our evolving Home First Service.
We’re bringing together nurses, therapists, health and therapy assistants to work alongside acute multi-disciplinary teams and transfer of care hubs to promote an efficient, effective hospital-to-home transition for our patients.
Our multi-disciplinary Home First teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.
Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission.
Home First will, where required, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
This is more that just a job- it’s a chance to be part of an innovative wrap around recovery service that helps people recover at home and regain their independence, giving them the confidence to get back to daily life.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to provide Clinical and Professional Leadership, ensuring effective governance for staff working in Home First.
They will work with the AHP Head of Service and Professional Leads to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
There will be an expectation to embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, including implementing the competency frameworks.
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist clinical advice regarding complex patients as well as providing specialist clinical assessment and intervention for highly complex patients as required.
They will work with the AHP Head of Service and Professional Leads in supporting an audit plan in the appropriate clinical area and participate in research as appropriate, to inform future service development.
As an active part of the team, the post holder is expected to develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
In this role you will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews .
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more details regarding this job role.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
Essential criteria
- Currently registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Post registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent, or be willing to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Physical assessment course or Masters level module
- Mentoring course or equivalent or Qualified Practice Assessor
- Recognised Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with clinical case management
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of a consistent pattern of learning from education and training
- Experience working across the boundaries of primary, community and secondary care
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of clinical leadership within a service
- Experience of leading service development and change
- Experience of participation in research
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge and skills within clinical area
- Up to date knowledge of health and social care policy
- Up to date knowledge of Professional code of Conduct
- Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Able to use advanced reasoning and assessment skills in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary
- Able to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Able to advocate for patients to improve their outcomesAble to mentor, supervise and develop other professionals
- Able to communicate effectively where barriers or obstacles exist and able to deploy strategies to overcome these
- Able to work in a fast-paced and dynamic health service
- Able to use recognised IT packages e.g. Microsoft Office including Excel
- Able to identify the training needs of self and others and to provide relevant and appropriate learning
- Knowledge of team dynamics and strategies to develop high performing teams
- Able to work in partnership and collaboration with other professionals in other services and challenge and negotiate with them as needed
- Able to meet conflicting deadlines, prioritise effectively and manage own and others workload
- Able to manage, diffuse and resolve conflict
- Able to teach patients and carers to participate and manage their own care as appropriate
- Able to monitor, maintain and improve standards of care
- Able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of self and able to identify their own personal limitations and an openness to addressing them
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working
- Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
- An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and patients
- Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Jackson
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07483969057
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