Children's Therapy Physical Function Manager

We are very excited to be able to offer a new opportunity in our Stockport Children's therapy Services (CTS).

We are looking for a 'physical function' manager to work alongside our communication managers under the Children's Therapy Services manager in Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

This role will provide leadership to the occupational therapists physiotherapists , equipment and adaptations team and home equipment store staff.

The post holder will also take the lead in governance and risk for CTS and provide decision making for the children's equipment and adaptations team.

Job Summary

The main duties include:

To provide over arching leadership and supervision for children’s occupational therapy (OT), children’s physiotherapy (PT) , children’s equipment and adaptations service (CEAS) and children’s home equipment store (HES) providing services under a balanced system framework .

To lead and co-ordinate the teams to work in multidisciplinary ways being responsible for efficient provision across a continuum of offer as per the balanced system framework. To lead teams through transformation as needed to ensure up to date and effective and efficient processes are in place.

To work as a member of a team, providing clinical support within the balanced system framework as needed in the service, liaising with other health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary carers and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service.

To make decisions regarding equipment and adaptation provision across all the services.

To act as the internal service lead for governance and risk for all children’s therapy services ensuring standing operating processes and record keeping policies are up to date and to lead on the CTS audit plans.

To deputise for CTS Manager as required.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits We Offer To You

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carol Sperring Job title: Childrens therapy manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 204 4153