Assistant Team Manager-Occupational Therapy Team (Adults)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO5 £50,574 - £53,607
Retention Bonus/ Market Supplement: £2000

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 06/12/2024

Proposed Interview Date(s): From 11/12/24
Reference:1529

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

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About the role:

The Occupational Therapists within the Occupational Therapy Team assess vulnerable adults with a range of different and complex needs. They complete screenings and assessments and case management, and provide professional and clinical advice and support to vulnerable adults, informal carers and other professionals.

The Assistant Team Manager will oversee the allocation process and supervisory arrangements within the team, and will work with the Team Manager to report on all aspects of performance delivery including any impact on workload and staffing pressures. They will provide clinical expertise and advice to team members regarding caseload management and will support staff in their learning and professional development including supporting on joint visits where required.

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Key Responsibilities:

Provide advice and supervision to support Team in completing statutory/complex assessments of vulnerable adults to determine eligibility and appropriate risk assessments, support and intervention (aids and adaptations) and referrals to other appropriate services

Risk to the health, safety and wellbeing of clients and their carers is effectively reduced and mitigated.

Support team to plan, deliver and oversee support plans or other interventions for a complex caseload. Monitor and where appropriate review cases

Provide professional expert advice and guidance to colleagues and partner agencies in supporting vulnerable adults

Liaise internally and externally and work with colleagues from other agencies to ensure vulnerable adults interests are supported.

Maintain properly documented case files, records and information. Prepare standard reports as required.

Carry out all duties with an awareness and understanding of the Safeguarding requirements within area of responsibility

Contribute to the Strategic Development of the Service. /Undertake service planning and service review activities

Ensure the effective operation of the Occupational Therapy Team

Ensure collaboration and support is offered to colleagues in other parts of the service

Qualifications and Requirements:

Educated to degree standard or equivalent

Relevant professional qualification

Registered Occupational Therapist with HCPC

Demonstrable knowledge and experience in assessing complex risk

Experience of having to interpret, understand and make judgements on the complex interactions between the risk and protective factors in any given situation when arriving at a decision about whether the vulnerable adults their families and carers is experiencing or is likely to experience significant harm.

Have high-level knowledge and skills in gathering information from a range of sources.

Make timely judgments and decisions that are based on evidence and thorough analysis of all the information gathered.

Demonstrate an ability to support others to draw up specific support plans with clear timescales/outcome that are based on high quality assessments, which are strength based and identify how risks are addressed and mitigated.

Systematically monitor and review decisions and plans, advising where they need revising in the light of new information and evaluation of whether the interventions are achieving the planned outcomes.

Know about the different methods of intervention and understand their effectiveness.

Demonstrate or show evidence of having undertaken and managed to completion no of complex cases and able to demonstrate a high level of conceptualization of critical analysis.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).

ICT skills including use of Microsoft applications.

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;

Satisfactory declaration of interest;

This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;

Satisfactory DBS check;

Continued professional body registration;

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact John McManus at John.McManus@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.