Clinical Specialist/Team Manager (OT) - CFHD

• To provide Specialist OT assessment and intervention for a caseload of complex cases
• Provide support and clinical supervision to OT staff across CFHD
• Work within the Physical and Sensory Pathway providing support to Occupational Therapists working across a range of pathways
• Screen and triage referrals and ensure a strengths-based approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to support the complex packages of care for children with additional needs in the community
• Contribute to risk assessment and care planning in collaboration with children, young people and their carers
• Provide specialist occupational therapy assessment, advice and interventions to children, young people and their families and to hold a caseload of children with complex needs
• Provide case management of an identified caseload of children and young people with highly complex long-term conditions and complex needs by utilising and promoting evidence-based care

Essential

• Sound knowledge of child development
• Evidence of advanced training in specialist clinical area
• Evidence of audit and quality improvement training
• Experience of working as part of a professional team and multidisciplinary team
• Skilled in risk management
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• Experience of presenting complex information to staff and senior management
• Experience of implementing changes in service design and delivery both profession specific and in a multidisciplinary environment
• Understand legal responsibilities of the profession, and health and social care delivery
• Knowledge of NSFs, local government, and health policies and procedures, safeguarding adult
• Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Experience of managing patients with a range of complex conditions
• Experience in specialist assessment relevant to your specialist field
• Clear evidence of high level of professional skills within a specialist health or social care setting
• Experience of safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children
• High level of knowledge of a broad range of relevant conditions and proven experience of delivering evidence-based practice
• Knowledge of the clinical guidelines, and experience of implementing these recommendations in practice

Desirable

• Complaints management and resolution
• Ability to write and present a business case
• Ability to analyse data
• Use of team-based working to promote change and development

Essential

• BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• State registration current HCPC registration
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant clinical area of expertise and/or postgraduate qualification