Therapy Team Manager
Location: Hitchin
Salary: 31,746 - £34,065.19 per annum
Hours: 22.5hrs per week
My client's assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. They treat people with a range of brain injuries - sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more - to recover and meet their personal goals.
Their assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support and help improve the lives of people with a neurological condition or brain injury.
MAIN TASKS:
* Responsible for overseeing service delivery from referral to discharge to ensure treatment programmes are planned and delivered effectively.
* To maintain an awareness of the caseloads of the team to ensure the most effective and efficient service is provided
* To be responsible for leading clinical governance activity within the team with regard to clinical risk management and for implementing clinical governance policies, standards and guidelines.
* Responsible for ensuring a high standard of service, delivered within local and national guidelines and within the resources available. To ensure documentation produced by other members of the team is in line with professional standards
* Responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of staff within the service and provide support to staff as required.
* To provide on-site deputy leadership for the team and take an active role in service developments through the use of service user participation strategies, peer review, audit, and evaluation of outcome measures
* To be responsible to chair interdisciplinary team meetings and review meetings as appropriate
* To work with other professionals in managing operational issues of services which cross organisational boundaries
ABOUT YOU:
* BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
* Registered with Health and Care Professionals Council
* Current registration with Professional Body /CSP) if appropriate
* Relevant post-registration training and experience and relevant leadership experience and training in a health/social care setting
* Member of an appropriate Professional Specialist Interest Group is desirable (ACPIN / ACPIVR)
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development
* Proven experience of working in an appropriate service across health-care settings
* Experience of working with clients with moderate to advanced neurological disease and disability
* Demonstrable experience of evidence-based practice, research, audit and outcome measures
* Highly specialist knowledge and application of neurological therapy assessments and interventions using complex level clinical reasoning
* Evidence of managing a team of staff including setting objectives, appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues
REWARDS:
* A competitive Salary of £31,746 - £34,065.19 per annum
* 38 Days AL
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Excellent training and support
* Company Pension
* Eye voucher scheme
* Long service and staff awards
* Free parking
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