Clinical Lead OT Reablement Service

We are seeking for an experienced and innovative Occupational Therapist to lead and shape our Reablement Service, supporting individuals to regain independence, reduce hospital admissions, and optimise recovery across an integrated health and social care system.
The post holder will operate at the forefront of community transformation, shaping pathways that prevent hospital admissions, accelerate discharges, and deliver person-centred care at home. You will influence practice beyond your immediate team, working across system partners to design service around the needs of complex, diverse population.
You will lead a dynamic, multidisciplinary workforce and drive a culture that is proactive, responsive, and outcomes focused, where reablement is not just a service, but a system wide approach to care.
A key part of the role is developing the future workforce. You will provide clinical leadership and structured development for Band 5 OTs on rotational programmes, supporting them to build confidence, competence and a strong foundation in community rehabilitation and reablement practice., + Provide strategic and clinical leadership for the Reablement OT Service.
+ Lead on complex case management, including frailty, falls, and multi-morbidity.
+ Drive service development, transformation, and quality improvement initiatives.
+ Work collaboratively across health and social care to streamline pathways.
+ Support workforce development, supervision, and clinical education.
+ Contribute to system wide initiatives including admission avoidance and discharge flow.
+ Use data and outcomes to inform service planning and improvement., To clinically lead and develop the provision of a high quality expert Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist community caseload of adults and older people with a wide variety of disabilities and their families/carers.
The post is community-based within an integrated multidisciplinary Reablement Service.
It involves the training, support and guidance of a range of staff to undertake enhanced roles, including personal care, rehabilitation and reablement so that a more holistic/integrated approach to the management of Service Users with complex needs (those with chronic illness / disease) can be achieved and the users' independence is promoted.
It also involves the assessment and provision of occupational therapy, working with users and informal carers in their homes and local communities to promote independent living.
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical and professional supervision, training & development of all staff working within the Reablement Service.
Please refer to attached job description
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.