Team Manager - Occupational Therapy

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Job Description

Team Manager - Occupational Therapy

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £46,404 to £50,865 (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 19/06/2024

We're recruiting a OT Single Handed Care Team Manager!!

We are interested in hearing from Occupational Therapy Managers with proven experience in social care services, and who have a good knowledge of legislation, adaptations, equipment and moving and handling practices. But importantly, the ability to manage a team of diverse and differing levels of practitioners delivering OT services for adults and children.

About the Role

We are recruiting an OT Team Manager to lead and develop a team to deliver robust and effective single-handed care.

The Single-Handed Care team manager will drive forward our approach for person centred moving and handling by using all available resources in the most efficient and cost-effective way to support the safe moving and handling of our customers.

You will also be responsible for the OT Duty team, ensuring referrals are triaged and processed effectively, in a timely manner.

You will ensure the service meets relevant quality standards with your responsive, personalised and outcome-focused approach promoting independence, and enhancing choice and control for people with care and support needs, and carers. As the team manager you will be seen by your team as the expert and therefore will need to have excellent extensive knowledge and ability in relation to the most complex of cases where finding viable solutions is challenging.

If you are enthusiastic about making a difference to the lives of those who live in Leicestershire County, and meet the criteria below, we want to hear from you

About You

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of, or ability in:

• Ensuring that all staff provide a person-centred and strengths-based service to all customers and their carers/families. Supporting staff to work in a cost-effective way in the promotion of independent living and reduction of risk for customers and carers.
• Providing expert advice, support and creative problem solving to team members dealing with customers with complex needs. This will include managing complaints from customers, carers, elected members and partners.
• Understanding, analysing, and interpreting data to inform decision making. Providing data and reports to service manager as needed.
• Providing supervision of staff (individual/group), undertaking appraisals, holding team meetings, and contributing to individual and team development. You will use council policies and procedures to support staff to be effective in their roles.
• Accountability for staffing budgets, performance management and applying departmental staff management policies. Ensuring staff are meeting standards and performance expectations in line with organisational protocols/procedures.
• Extensive knowledge of the legal frameworks, policy, and guidance (national and local) that underpin the work of Occupational Therapy
• You will have a professional qualification in Occupational Therapy and current registration with HCPC as well as evidence of personal development and commitment to learning.

We'd also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

• Sheila Stirling, Strategic Service Manager/Principal OT.

Sheila.Stirling@leics.gov.uk or 0116 305 0041

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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