JOB SUMMARY

We are looking to recruit a Therapy Services Manager to join the team in a private Mental Heath hospital located in Birmingham. This is a full time role working 37.5 hours per week. Three days managerial duties and two days for clinical case load. Salary is up to £62,000 depending on experience.
The hospital is located in a peaceful and picturesque suburb of South West Birmingham, is a specialised addiction rehab centre, providing expert treatment for a range of addictions, including alcohol, drugs and support for behavioural addictions.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working at a supervisory or managerial level within a relevant health environment
• Experience of managing a clinical budget.
• Strong background within leadership and people management.
• Experience of leading, implementing and reviewing quality initiatives in a related environment.
• Strong track record of innovation.

• The TSM plays a key part in developing and delivering the hospital strategy, providing operational leadership to the team.
• Manages and coordinates therapy services ensuring the range and level of treatments and activities complies with statutory regulations, meets quality standards and delivers against KPI’s including responding to referrals, customer service and time to first appointment.
• Provides leadership, organisation and co-ordination to ensure effective clinical governance.
• Promotes an effective working relationship across the multidisciplinary teams.
• Leads and coordinates the therapy services operation through the effective and progressive management of a multi - disciplinary team, who collectively provide inpatient and day care therapy services.
• Responsible for the financial performance of the therapy team and proactively manages budgets against actual performance. Actively updates the Hospital Director with any short comings or potential issues around the financial activity of the team.
• Responsible for business development of the therapy service provision in the hospital including actively promoting the hospitals therapy services, identifying opportunities for growth and ensuring plans are in place for maintaining census throughout the year.
• Assesses, plans, and reviews therapy plans for individual and group sessions, with responsibility for delivering a small caseload and covering therapy sessions as required.
• Responsible for ensuring that all therapy services are of the highest quality, meets the appropriate standards from both a governance and quality perspective and is in line with the Priory clinical model.
• Identifies, recommends and implements processes and systems designed to improve and enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and professionalism of the therapy services function.
• Manages the development, implementation and review of therapy services ensuring the cost effective provision of facilities, the effective deployment of staff and the appropriate use of therapeutic interventions across all fields of the inpatient and day care programme.
• Regularly monitors, reviews and reports on the performance of the therapy services programme against key performance indicators, quality assurance targets and audit results ensuring therapy services continue to deliver to quality standards in terms of success rates, costs and income.
• To ensure the team work within the standards and frameworks of professional codes of conduct and to take remedial action as appropriate.
• Manages and develops a highly skilled and motivated workforce by carrying out management supervision.
• Links with local universities and HEI’s to build a pipeline of Therapists into the hospital including, where appropriate, to carry out seminars / lectures and recruitment campaigns to raise the profile of the hospital.
• Ensures that all employees have the opportunities to further develop their careers and encourages and supports CPD applications.
• Responsible for ensuring that all colleagues receive clinical supervision in accordance with professional guidelines and carries out management supervision as appropriate.
• As part of the Senior Management team will carry out on-call duties as directed by the Hospital Director.
• Contributes to the development of Priory policies, procedures, processes and initiatives.
• Maintains own professional development and accreditation.
• Management of locums required including booking and management of spend  Form part of the Senior Management Team on call rota
• You will be expected to provide cover and support to the wider team and site as and when needed
• You will report to the Hospital Director, the Therapy Services Manager (TSM) forms part of the Senior Management Team of the hospital with full accountability for both inpatient and day care services including driving and delivering a high quality service.