# Children's Social Care Occupational Therapy Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-social-care-occupational-therapy-manager/7df38a32-373e-4a00-85c7-99fee75a4f63 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-social-care-occupational-therapy-manager/7df38a32-373e-4a00-85c7-99fee75a4f63.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - **Location:** Croydon University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 p.a incl HCAS outer - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover for 12 months starting from January 2027) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-15T18:02:43.176Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Croydon/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Occupational_Therapist/Occupational_Therapist-v8268185 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8268185?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ****** Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role.****** ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of equipment assessment, provision and review - Experience of completing medical housing assessment and associated paperwork - Experience completing moving and handling assessments - Able to supervise junior staff/assistants/students **Desirable** - Experience of lone working in Social Care OT role - Experience of managing complaints - Experience working with commissioners or key stakeholders - Experience working with children in relevant community or acute setting ### Other Factors **Essential** - Driving Licence - Valid in UK for manual car **Desirable** - Automatic or bike only driving licence with access to car for work ### skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents and staff, including children with significant communication difficulties - Excellent report writing skills, including record keeping - Ability to facilitate others to deliver OT treatment programmes **Desirable** - Knowledge of research process - Knowledge of audit process ### Education and Qualification **Essential** - OT Degree/Diploma - HCPC registration **Desirable** - Post-qualification paediatric training - Postural management training - Equipment and adaptations training ### Knowledge and Understanding **Essential** - Demonstrate a clear understanding of OT skills in relation to children with disabilities - Commitment to service development - Good understanding of OT Management role **Desirable** - Knowledge of children’s normal developmental milestones - Prior management/Lead experience - In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to children relevant to safeguarding. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 624.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10617666) - [croydon trust values (pdf, 324.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2317) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2414) - [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.