Therapy Suite Team Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or above in Occupational Therapy or other allied health profession.
• Up to date professional registration with HCPC.
• Post registration training relevant to mental health.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of post qualification CPD training.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working at a senior level within an allied health profession.
• Post qualification experience of working within an inpatient/secure mental health setting.
• Experience of working with people with complex needs.
• Carry out high quality and culturally sensitive assessment and treatment process skills.
• Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Experience of managing complex personnel issues such as sickness absence, presenting at hearings and poor performance management.
• Experience of staff recruitment
• Experience of financial management

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working as a manager or team leader, including the management of people working in other disciplines other than own background.
• Experience of working within complex systems
• Experience of developing & delivering staff training (to multi-disciplinary colleagues)
• Experience in research and audit
• Experience of service development
• Experience of formally appraising others
• Experience of providing line management to staff

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Specialist knowledge and application of evidence-based assessment and interventions relevant to mental health.
• Knowledge of evidence based clinical models utilised in mental health and their application in practice
• Knowledge of legislation, statutory and good practice guidance relating to mental health ((including the National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines, the Mental Health Act, the Care Programme Approach, and the Mental Capacity Act).
• Ability to work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrates positive pro-active and effective leadership and management skills to an integrated multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to effectively manage and adapt to change to contributed to the development of the service.
• Ability to promote and positively represent the allied health professional workforce.

Desirable criteria

• Specialist knowledge of trauma informed care, attachment & the relevance of this to the role.
• Specialist knowledge of the assessment & management of risk in the inpatient setting.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
• Effective leadership skills
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities in a demanding environment.
• Presentation and training skills.
• Contribute to the development and application of local health safety and security policies and procedures.
• Must be able to represent AHPs at senior service level. Ability to take the lead in the planning, development and evaluation of own service area.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
• Applying the principles of Recovery and the promoting service user and carer involvement.
• Computer literacy.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, including the processing of complex and sensitive information
• Ability to manage own workload, determine priorities and proactively respond to changing priorities.
• Ability to work in a demanding environment.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Application of Health, Safety and Security Principles.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrates the ability to deputise for senior staff.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise the performance of others
• Evidence of having presented at a conference.

Other

Essential criteria

• The postholder must be assessed by Occupational Health as having a level of physical fitness required to undertake the role and required essential training.
• Registration with HCPC
• Commitment to Lifelong learning for self and others

Desirable criteria

• Membership of professional body

Important Information about working for GMMH:

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www..nhsemployers.org

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we'd love to hear from you.

Sponsorship

We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government's website - click here.

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Do you have experience outside the NHS?

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.

**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 296.4KB)
• Important Candidate information (PDF, 2.5MB)