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Occupational Therapy Team Manager

Job Introduction

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? We currently have a vacancy for a Team Manager in our Home Assessment Team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a key member of our forward thinking Occupational Therapy Management Team. Our current staff team are skilled, committed, friendly and supportive. To support them to undertake their role we are seeking a new dynamic Team Manager to continue this development.

We are committed to personalised, strength-based approaches and keen to support Bradford citizens to remain active, independent and at home. Staff work in a variety of teams including Early Help and Prevention, Intermediate Care, Enablement, Moving and Handling, Children’s and Young People’s and Home Assessment Team.

The team undertake functional assessments of varying complexity within the home environment. The team considers either providing equipment, minor, or more complex major adaptations to meet the person’s assessed needs. Occupational Therapy team staff members also sign post people to other services and support their application for a Disabled Facilities Grant, based on their assessed needs and through occupational therapy recommendations.

The successful candidate will:

Have a professional qualification in Occupational Therapy and be HCPC registered.
Have significant experience in one or more of the areas we work in.
Have excellent people skills with a coaching approach to management.
Have a knowledge and practical understanding of relevant legislation including, but not exclusive to, the Care Act and Housing legislation, including the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Be open to new ideas and be able to encourage others to adapt and embrace change.

The main responsibilities of this role:

To Manage a team which includes professionally qualified Occupational Therapy staff, Occupational Therapy Assessors and Access Information Advisors.
Upholding the Local Authorities responsibility to provide statutory services under the Care Act 2014, The Mental Health Act, The Mental Capacity Act and the Children and Families Act 2014, for Children and young people, including those who are transitioning from Children’s services in preparation for Adulthood, Adults, their carers and families across the Bradford District.
Providing management to staff who are accountable for assessment, care and support planning, intervention, monitoring, and reviewing, to meet needs.
Ensuring that the standards of the Health Care Professions Council and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, are complied with and performance targets are monitored and delivered.
Alongside the Principal OT, responsible for service improvement, defining the benefits and assessing progress towards realisation and achieving measured improvements. Accountable for expenditure against allocated budgets within Department guidelines set out by the Service Manager and maintaining effective monitoring systems for the same.

If you are interested in joining our team and would like some further information, please contact Helen Mckeown on 07582 108012 or email helen.mckeown@bradford.gov.uk.

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

Equal Opportunities

We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee directly or indirectly on the grounds of gender, marital status, gender re-assignment, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic background, religion or belief nationality or age. And, as an equal opportunities employer, the Council strives to employ the best qualified people from a diverse range of applicants.

The RESPECT Allyship Programme is available to all staff, which offers the opportunity to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides added benefits and resources to its members.

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