Job summary
- Main area
- allied health professionals
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7301826
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Children's Therapy Offices
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children's Therapy Physical Function Manager
Band 8a
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
We are very excited to be able to offer a new opportunity in our Stockport Children's therapy Services (CTS).
We are looking for a 'physical function' manager to work alongside our communication managers under the Children's Therapy Services manager in Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will provide leadership to the occupational therapists physiotherapists , equipment and adaptations team and home equipment store staff.
The post holder will also take the lead in governance and risk for CTS and provide decision making for the children's equipment and adaptations team.
Main duties of the job
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The main duties include: Job Summary: To lead and co-ordinate the teams to work in multidisciplinary ways being responsible for efficient provision across a continuum of offer as per the balanced system framework. To lead teams through transformation as needed to ensure up to date and effective and efficient processes are in place. To work as a member of a team, providing clinical support within the balanced system framework as needed in the service, liaising with other health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary carers and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service. To make decisions regarding equipment and adaptation provision across all the services. To act as the internal service lead for governance and risk for all children’s therapy services ensuring standing operating processes and record keeping policies are up to date and to lead on the CTS audit plans. To deputise for CTS Manager as required.
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Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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:
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- Occupational therapists (OT)
- Physiotherapists (PT)
- Children’s 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 Children’s 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 children’s 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 children’s 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 Trust’s 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
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Allied Health Professional qualification and licence to practice
- Education / training equivalent to masters level
Desirable criteria
- Masters
- Education / training as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Desirable criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Experience
Essential criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Desirable criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Desirable criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Desirable criteria
- as per person spec, 0- none, 1 - some, 2- good, 3- excellent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carol Sperring
- Job title
- Childrens therapy manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 204 4153
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