Children's Therapy Physical Function Manager
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK4 2JT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9362-25-0569 |
Summary
Main Duties and Responsibilities To take day-to-day responsibility for the leadership, delivery and operational management of the designated teams of multidisciplinary therapists and support staff: Occupational therapists (OT) Physiotherapists (PT) Childrens equipment and adaptations service (CEAS) occupational therapists Home Equipment Store (HES) lead OT / technicians ensuring the services are effective and well co-ordinated across multiple schools, settings and communities across Stockport. To lead the service provision across the 5 strands and 3 levels of the Balanced System in collaboration with the Childrens Therapy manager / Childrens SLT Managers / All CTS Team leads. To work closely with the Childrens Therapy Manager to ensure of equity of access to relevant supervision and the achievement of competencies required for the maintenance of HCPC registration of team members. To be responsible for developing and monitoring the standard of service provision across your teams through the implementation of clinical governance requirements i.e. protocols and guidelines, clinical audit and risk management policies. To take the lead for governance and risk across all childrens therapies ensuring standard operating procedures are up to date and submitted and to lead on CTS audit planning. To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness within the service by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures ensuring effective high quality patient care To contribute to business plans for the managed areas. To deputise for more senior staff when appropriate. To facilitate in-service training, research and audit activities within the designated team. To teach, develop and educate team members to ensure service needs are met. To support the development of students within the team. To be responsible for the provision of highly specialised assessment, treatment and management of patients referred to your team if required. As an autonomous practitioner using advanced and highly specialised skills and knowledge, determine clinical diagnoses and treatment indicated for a complex caseload and maintain records. To provide supervision and decision making for the childrens equipment and adaptations service including risk assessment where possible. To lead the services through transformation to a balanced system . To work with CTS manager to develop the outcomes framework for OT, PT CEAS and HES. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16