Children's Social Care Occupational Therapy Manager

Job overview

• To be responsible for the day to day running of the Social Service Children’s Occupational Therapy service within the integrated Occupational Therapy service.
• To provide a highly specialised and advanced standard of Occupational Therapy assessment, management, treatment and advice for a caseload of children with a wide range of developmental difficulties and/or disabilities, a high proportion of whom may have complex and/or multiple pathologies.
• Responsible for the operational management and professional leadership of the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service and its therapy staff, with delegated responsibility to ensure that performance and budgetary objectives are met.
• To be a highly visible and proactive leader acting as a clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of therapy care and service delivery.
• To be responsible for exploring current practice, identifying areas for development, and planning the appropriate change using current evidence to evaluate outcomes.
• To be responsible for the quality of the environment in which therapeutic interventions are delivered and lead on facilitating changes which improve the service users’ experience.
• To play a key operational role and maintain a proactive approach to the management of demand, capacity and activity in order to meet organisational, contractual and service users’ objectives.
• To ensure that services comply with national and local policy and legislation.

Main duties of the job

• To maintain a 40% clinical caseload and 60% managerial duties
• Managing Social Care waiting lists
• Managing equipment budget and send monthly reports to Croydon Council budget holder and Croydon council finance team.
• Screen adaptation request and be part of equipment and adaptation panels.
• Supporting with upcoming SEND inspection
• Manage complaints
• Complete line management and clinical supervision
• Managing staff sickness & appraisal
• KPI monitoring and attendance of commissioning meetings
• Attendance and participation in development of Babies, Children and Young People’s strategic board.
• Attendance of AHP Council meetings

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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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.