# Team Manager: Occupational Therapy Team

**Company**: London Borough of Merton
**Location**: Morden
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £59,298 to £63,690 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The London Borough of Merton is seeking an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapy Team Manager to lead our dedicated OT service within Adult Social Care.

You will provide strong professional leadership and clinical oversight to a skilled team of Occupational Therapists and OT Assistants, promoting high-quality, strengths-based and person-centred practice.

The main duties of the job include:

- Leading and managing Merton's Occupational Therapy Services and the Integrated Community Equipment Service

- Developing policies and practices for community-based occupational therapy teams and the integrated community equipment service contract

- Working closely with colleagues, stakeholders, and partners

- Supporting and developing existing joint working practices and policies within the Occupational Therapy Services

- Being responsible for staffing and delegated budgets

The ideal candidate will have:

- Advanced knowledge and understanding of current and impending legislation relating to OT service provision and disabled people and carers

- A good understanding of multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working

- Ability to set standards and monitor them accordingly

- Ability to plan and organise service delivery

- Ability to understand and comply with departmental policies

- Ability to use information technology

- Ability to manage conflicting work demands and pressures

- Ability to carry out research and develop services

- Ability to lead the workforce, facilitating creativity, challenge, and positive group dynamics

The London Borough of Merton offers a range of benefits, including:

- Access to the local government pension scheme

- 27.5 days paid holiday, rising to 32.5 days after five years of service

- Flexible working

- A first-class staff development programme

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- leadership
- management
- communication
- team management

### Nice to have
- advanced knowledge of legislation relating to OT service provision
- multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working

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