Full job descriptionLead Occupational TherapistPriory Hospital Middleton St George has an opportunity for a HCPC registered Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team. Priory Hospital Middleton St George, Darlington, County Durham is a specialist inpatient service for adults with mental health issues, complex needs and behaviours that challenge.
As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide clinical, professional and operational leadership to the Occupational Therapy (OT) service, working in collaboration with Therapy Services Manager to ensure OT services are proactive and supportive of Priory objectives. In this role, you will play a key part in patient recovery, supporting the assessment and delivery of tailored treatment plans while ensuring dignity, respect, and high standards of care.
Responsibilities include:
*Working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues across the hospital site to support integration around patient care.
*Delivering a highly specialised and advanced standard of OT assessment, treatment and management for patients.
*Ensuring that own practice and service meets agreed local and national standards and clinical governance requirements.
*Participating in site service quality improvement initiatives including conducting investigations and Quality monitoring assurance objectives and clinical audit.
*Overseeing student placements within the OT team.
*Attending all site required meetings including Clinical Governance and Patient Safety and representing the OT department.
*Attending Regional OT meetings and providing feedback to site.
*Taking responsibility for identified budget responsibilities related to role.
Essential for the role – Lead Occupational Therapist:
Candidates must be HCPC registered and hold a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or Master’s degree, or have completed formal postgraduate study (award or non-award bearing). They must have experience in team leadership and driving change, experience supervising Occupational Therapists or Occupational Therapy Assistants and students, a working knowledge of current national and local healthcare issues, and training in relevant models of practice such as MoHO, VdTMoCA, and Sensory Integration.
In return, we offer:
*Free on-site parking
*Enhanced maternity pay
*Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day’s annual leave
*Contributory pension scheme
*Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
*Access to development opportunities
*Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
*Leadership & management development
*Long service award
*Refer a friend bonuses
About Priory:
Priory is the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care. With 12,000 colleagues and a network of 270 services, we support over 24,000 people each year to live their lives as fully and independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions – including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and children’s mental health – and provide residential and supported living care for autistic adults, people with a learning disability, Prader–Willi Syndrome, brain injuries and older people. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process.