Our client in southwest London has a fantastic permanent Therapy Manager / Lead OT vacancy. This client Home is undergoing an exciting period of change and development, at the heart of this change are the therapeutic services with this client. This post will manage a small but growing team of OT's, Physiotherapists and Rehabilitation assistance. The post holder will have opportunity to grow and develop the team as the client moves towards achieving its vision to be a Level 2 rehabilitative service.

J800004908
Therapy Manager / Lead OT Permanent
Location: Southwest London
Salary: £60, 000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 Hours
Responsible for: Individual clinical areas. As directed by Director of Care and overall leadership for Homes therapeutic programme.

Job Role:
The Therapy Manager will provide leadership and direction to the therapy services, working alongside the Unit Manager and Clinical Lead Nurses, the Therapy Manager will be responsible for developing the strategy for the Therapies Department in line with Home's overall strategy and transformation programme.

*To be the professional therapies lead for the Home, providing advice within the organisation and, where appropriate, to external partners on all matters concerning
*The managed services and practices. This responsibility includes internal and external MDT support.
* Change management: Reviewing departmental operations and implementing Changes to improve service delivery for British Home patients and staff. This includes developing an effective team approach across therapy services, to lead British Home in its journey to accredited Level- two status and supporting the Gold Standards framework for palliative care.
* Deliver high quality, evidence based clinical services in line with the clinical services' strategy. This means reporting effectively both for the individual and nationally into UKROC
*Ensure productivity and efficiency across the department. This includes financial management and oversite of admissions pathways and costings for therapeutic packages
*Provide leadership to the Therapies department, working with clinical colleagues to manage the design and delivery of clinical/non-clinical services.
* Be jointly responsible for the writing of copy and content for external publication, ranging from fundraising bids to media publications and articles
* Continually review services in line with Level -2 service provision aspirations and work with colleagues to redesign services in order to meet the needs of patients and enable the Therapies Department to achieve key performance indicators.
* Develop effective processes for monitoring, analysing and managing department activity, including the efficient management of capacity, identifying when performance falls below set standards and taking corrective action. This also includes all investigations and learning from incidents and accidents.
*Set up and monitor a UKROC reporting system and ensure appropriate timely data collection mechanisms are established to support capacity and demand analysis and transparency with regard to productivity.
* Accountable for the delivery of a balanced budget for the Therapies Department.
* Accountable for all equipment and services within the department to come in under budget while still providing and excellent level of rehabilitation opportunity to clients.
*Line-manage individuals and growing teams of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Psychology, either individually or working directly with seniors in relevant professional departments of neuro psychology.
*The post holder will be expected to develop and oversee a departmental workforce plan to optimise staff opportunities to ensure delivery of high-quality services.

Requirement:

*First Level Registered Occupational therapist registered with HCPC or Another HCPC registered professional with significant experience
*Evidence of continuing professional and clinical development
*Experience in rehabilitative medicine or neurology. Spinal or palliative care experience in tandem with rehabilitative experience also considered.
* Moving & Handling Trainer
*Mentor or Mentorship qualification / experience with students
*Experience leading the work and management of staff within a mixed discipline therapeutic team
*Experience working with or managing neuropsychology
*Experience of supervising, appraising, training and coaching a staff team
*Computer literate with experience of word-processing/ spreadsheets/databases/e-mail
*A minimum of 2 years previous experience of supervising staff.
* Experience or knowledge of reporting into UKROC and associated national guidelines

For More Information, please contact parul.patel@justot.co.uk