Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Camden East Neighbourhood and Therapy Lead
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Job Overview
An exciting leadership opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist to take on the role of East District Nursing and Therapies Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead, based at Kentish Town Health Centre, Camden.
National and local drivers for change continue to shape a clear vision for more integrated working between statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring services are accessible, equitable, and responsive to the needs of our communities. Camden’s Integrated District Nursing and Community Rehabilitation Teams operate across five neighbourhoods, working collaboratively to reduce health inequalities and strengthen community-based care.
The East Integrated Neighbourhood Team is co-located within Kentish Town Health Centre, bringing together multi-agency partners to develop shared systems, processes, and learning that are applied consistently across all Integrated Neighbourhood Teams in Camden.
Each neighbourhood team is led by senior clinical staff from District Nursing or Therapies, working closely together as a combined leadership group alongside the District Nursing Practice Development Nurse. We are seeking a specialist Occupational Therapist to ensure our leadership team reflects the full range of professional expertise across the borough and supports a robust, cross-disciplinary clinical supervision structure.
Main duties of the job
About The Role
The post holder will work jointly with the Band 8A Nurse Leads and Neighbourhood Physiotherapy Leads to provide clinical leadership, operational oversight, and professional guidance to the East Neighbourhood Team. The post holder will lead and shape specialist Occupational Therapy practice in an Integrated Neighbourhood Team model in Camden Neighbourhoods. Responsibilities include:
- Coordinating safe, effective, patient-centred care
- Providing expert clinical advice and supervision
- Leading and supporting staff deployment to meet patient need
- Driving service development within the integrated neighbourhood model
- Working collaboratively with statutory and voluntary sector partners, acute and community providers, and the wider multidisciplinary team
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This role requires excellent clinical leadership, patient-centred practice, organisational skills, time management, and clear communication. You will be committed to integrated working and passionate about improving outcomes for patients and carers within the Camden community.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
1: Clinical and Operational Leadership
- Ensure that the team has adequate nursing and therapy staff on duty with the appropriate skills to safely meet the needs of patients.
- Identify priorities by effective time management, ensuring the team governance priorities are met, performance indicators, safety, risk, incident management, care delivery is managed in a proactive and timely way.
- Manage staff capability/performance, queries/concerns/complaints from service users, partner agencies and other team members, ensuring that feedback to others is positive and meaningful and that strengths are clearly acknowledged.
- Be an exemplary role model working within the core Trust values and applying SCARF principles in all interactions with people.
- Display visible management and leadership skills to the integrated community team.
- When required to undertake direct clinical work, working with complex cases, acting as a role model for excellence in care provision.
- Act as a role model in expert practice facilitating and supporting the delivery of effective rehabilitation programmes by use of advanced clinical judgement and decision-making skills.
- Ensure quality standards in holistic service provision including health promotion and education in response to the changing health needs of the local community.
- Oversee and support staff to develop robust risk management plans and care planning that support individual’s independence and daily living within their home setting.
- Secure appropriate expertise to provide specialist support to ensure that patients are referred to other practitioners when required and that appropriate supplies and equipment are in place and reviewed as per local policy.
- Work within the organisation’s framework of informed consent.
- Ensure that professional competency frameworks for therapy staff and students is robust and supportive to develop specialist interventions within the integrated teams.
- Be conversant and have a range of in-depth knowledge of the CNWL Trusts policies and procedures, applying them fairly in leadership decision making.
- Manage the budget and allocation of resources appropriately.
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Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Qualified Occupational Therapist
- Masters level or equivalent
- Rehabilitation Therapy
- Demonstrates professional development of self and others
Skills
Essential criteria
- Team Leading experience demonstrated
- Rehabilitation therapy leadership demonstrated
- Understanding of integration and neighbourhood teams
- Quality project/change management
- Allocation of team resources senior accountability
- Demonstrates leadership capacity in community health care
- Knowledge of information sharing and working with an MDT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Has worked a team leader level in a community setting
- Partnership working with nurses and other health and social care professionals
- Complex patient decision making
- Management of care planning and using SystmOne
- Supervising staff - clinical supervision and management supervision
- Demonstrates an understanding of the role of District Nursing and the importance of therapy integration
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