Assistant Team Manager - OT

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (for 3 years)

 

Contract Reason: Subject to funding

 

Secondment Opportunity: Permanent employees are encouraged to apply and will be supported as part of our workforce development commitment 

 

Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £43,421 to Scale 39 - £47,420 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £45,441**

 

Hours: 36 Hours per Week 

 

Base Location: Wilshaw House, Wilshaw Lane, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL7 9QG

 

Closing Date: 9th May 2024

 

Assessment Date: To be arranged

 

The Role 

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly developing Occupational Therapy Service in Tameside. We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist, ideally with experience in Manual handling, aids and adaptations and Learning disability.

 

We are an important and integral part of organisational plans for Integrated Social and Health Care Systems across the Tameside footprint. As Occupational Therapists we are actively involved in this process and in some aspects, are at the front edge of delivery and development within these wider Services.

 

We are aligned with other Professionals across four separate neighbourhood Teams. These include Social Workers, District Nursing, and also Primary Care Nursing. Joint Working alongside our Professional colleagues has allowed us to deliver the best outcomes for our Service Users. In addition, our most recent service developments have demonstrated not only the importance of Occupational Therapy to the overall success of service wide developments but also revealed new training and development needs for our Profession.

 

About You 

 

We are looking for a confident experienced Occupational Therapist with enthusiasm, passion for learning and development, a great team player and drive to be part of an exciting, rapidly developing Occupational Therapy Service. The roles and responsibilities will include clinical supervision of Occupational Therapists and Assistants, holding a small case load, assessing the manual handling needs across community settings and assessing for equipment and adaptations to allow our service users to live an independent and full life. 

 

As an Assistant Team Manager you will also support on service development, audits, policies and processes. This is not an exhaustive list.

 

Our commitment and investment in your training and professional development is of upmost importance. Training will be provided across all aspects of the roles as required. There are regular Team Meetings and Continuing Professional Development and training are valued and prioritised.

 

Car driver with own vehicle is essential. This post carries an authorised casual car user allowance.

 

About Us

 

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

 

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.  We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. 

 

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

 

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

 

For an informal discussion please contact: Julie Dean on 07712717746 julie.dean@tameside.gov.uk

 

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category.  As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND 

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND 

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND 

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.  Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

 

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

 

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