Children’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Team Manager

Swindon Borough Council; Hurn; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

BCP Council is seeking a Children’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Team Manager to join a dynamic team focused on improving children's engagement in their home environments. The role involves operational management, maintaining clinical skills, and supporting the team with assessments and case management. This part-time position offers further development opportunities and the chance to work in a beautiful coastal area.

Benefits

Continuing professional development

Management training opportunities

Flexible working hours

Working in a supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in working with children and families dealing with disability.
• Strong management skills and operational experience.
• Ability to conduct assessments and implement specialized equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management and maintain a small caseload.
• Oversee OT equipment review system and support team with casework.
• Conduct assessments for equipment and adaptations.

Skills

Knowledge of safeguarding

Understanding of disability effects

Clinical oversight

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

Children’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Team Manager

• Salary £45,718 - £48,710 per annum FTE (pro rata for part-time)

Job Introduction

We are seeking a Children’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Team Manager to join our innovative, supportive social care team within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.As a team we strive to enable Children and Young People to participate, function and engage in family life within their home environment as safely and independently as possible.

This exciting opportunity will combine providing daily operational management and holding a small caseload and includes the responsibility and clinical oversight of our OT equipment review system and supporting the team with casework and supervisions.

There will be opportunity to also maintain a small, reduced caseload, to ensure clinical skills are kept up to date with emphasis on complex casework.

Case work includes assessment and prescription of Specialist Equipment, Complex Seating and Postural Management, Complex Major adaptations/Disabled Facilities Grants, Minor adaptations, and Manual Handling Risk Assessments.

You will be working alongside Social Workers, Family Support Practitioners and a wider established multi-disciplinary team within social care and SEND services. We also have established links with our Health colleagues.You must have a diverse knowledge and understanding of how disability can affect children and their families and a sound awareness of safeguarding.

We are committed to continuing professional development and can offer further management training and skill building opportunities if required.

This is a permanent 30-hour part-time vacancy, worked over four days to be agreed by the Team Manager. Being a car driver with business use insurance is essential for this position.We would love you to come and work in our team on the Beautiful South Coast where we have award winning beaches and beautiful surroundings.

If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Ruth Morgan, Children’s Occupational Therapy Team Manager via email: [e-mail] to arrange an informal discussion.

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package for further details seehere

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees.It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right.We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer.This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes.We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.

DBS

BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.

Attached documents

• Job Description Childrens Occupational Therapy Assistant Team Manager May 2025.pdf