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Allied Health Professionals Team Lead - Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist
Are you ready to step into a leadership role as an Allied Health Professionals team lead? We are looking for an Occupational Therapist or a Physiotherapist to lead our inpatient mental health team at Woodlands in Ipswich.
This exciting opportunity will allow an experienced Allied Health Professional to oversee delivery of recovery-focussed intervention's in an acute mental health setting.
We are looking for a flexible and dynamic candidate who has excellent clinical and leadership skills who wants to make a real impact on patient outcomes and staff retention.
- Leadership Role: Lead an established team of Occupational Therapists, a band 7 Physiotherapist and support staff across two adult acute mental health wards, our older people ward and our psychiatric intensive care unit.
- Team Management: The team deliver clinically effective, evidenced based treatment and interventions to groups and individuals. You will also work alongside psychologists and art therapists. You will balance team management with retaining some clinical work, particularly in complex cases.
- Service Development: Provide leadership to a therapy team within the multidisciplinary team context. You will have a high degree of autonomy, with a key role in supporting the development of skills of staff across the inpatient wards. You will also be contributing to service and policy development within the service and reporting on team governance.
- Clinical Excellence: Ensure a responsive, high-quality service is provided to patients, their families and carers within the clinical environment and maintain compliance with key performance indicators. Provide line management supervision to the AHP team including recruitment, development and supervision. Provide specialist clinical input across the service including support for complex cases.
- Integrated Care: Role model and foster strong working relationships between the AHP and the MDT, to ensure that care is integrated and results in the best possible outcomes for service users.
- Coordination: Oversee the therapeutic timetables for the wards and coordinate the allocation of activity worker resource across the site.
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Woodlands is an exciting and innovative place to work with ambitions to improve patient experience at all levels. The AHP team works across all wards to support discharge planning, therapeutic activity and purposeful admission. There is an ADL kitchen and gym on site, as well as an outdoor games area. The team also facilitate community activity and engagement.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
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Why Work for Us?
- Ambitious Aspirations: We have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey.
- Professional Networks: We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
- Beautiful Location: The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park.
- Convenience: We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too.
- Rich Culture: Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rebecca Bowen
- Job title: AHP Lead East Suffolk
- Email address: rebecca.bowen@nsft.nhs.uk
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