Therapy Team Manager
Location: Hitchin
Salary: £49,383 - £55,647 per annum pro-rata (£31,746 - £33,388 per annum)
Hours: 22.5hrs per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

ABOUT US:

Stagenhoe is a Brainkind specialist neurological care centre based in Hertfordshire, caring for people aged 18 and over a range of neurological conditions. At Stagenhoe, we provide the care people need to optimise their health and wellbeing, maximise their independence and support their emotional and social needs.
Our 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 PURPOSE:

To provide robust and effective leadership to a specialised therapy team and recreational therapy team. The post will support the Senior Management Team in the delivery of services, quality improvement and clinical governance.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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 and Brainkind 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
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy intervention to meet the assessed needs of service users
• To hold responsibility for managing own caseload within an agreed defined clinical area
• To monitor attendance of mandatory and other required training for members of team
• To improve own and others research and development skills through participation in audit projects
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks