Head of Therapies
4 weeks ago
**Job Title**: Head of Therapies
**Location**: Lingfield, Surrey
**Salary**: £58,000 - £65,000 per year (Solbury Pay Scale 17-23)
**Job type**: Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)
Young Epilepsy is the leading national charity, which exists to improve the lives of children and young people with epilepsy and associated conditions. With over 100 years of experience, our unique Headquarters offers world class services which include theprovision of Residential Services, Education and Health Care to children and young people in the UK and nationally.
We are looking for people who like to go home knowing they have made a real difference for the young people they have been supporting.
**The Role**:
Responsible for the full operational day-to-day delivery, and strategic overview, of therapeutic input into the wellbeing of the children and young adults we support at St Piers School and College and Young Epilepsy. Ensuring that services are developedand delivered efficiently & effectively within robust educational and clinical frameworks, as well as incorporating flexibility and innovation as new opportunities and/or challenges present.
As part of the senior management team to work closely with the educational teams, Head of Residential, Nurse Consultants and Head of Quality Improvement specifically to provide consistent and cohesive support to ensure positive outcomes for children andyoung adults.
**Key Responsibilities and Duties**:
- Promote a holistic multi-agency and multi-disciplinary approach, across all therapeutic activity,
- Ensure that the knowledge and skills of the therapist team members are continually updated; that team members operate within relevant legislative and statutory frameworks.
- Device and implement programmes for individual children and young adults within the residential homes, college, school & Rehabilitation & Assessment unit.
- Ensure that all the therapists and other related professionals are registered with the required statutory bodies and that any records of are kept.
- Be aware of, review, understand and meet organisation performance standards, policies and procedures, targets and key performance indicators.
- Provide input to strategic objectives, reviews and business plans and implement and monitor actions plans as necessary to ensure positive outcomes.
- To produce reports and statistics as requested by the Executive Principal of St Piers and/or the Director of Health, Research & Compliance.
- To attend/chair/participate in various internal and external meetings, student reviews and committees etc. as required.
- Financial Management
- To Responsible for setting, managing and scrutiny of the therapy budget(s), in conjunction with the Executive Principal and the finance team.
- Responsible for the overall effective coordination and deployment of resources across the therapy teams.
- To review and authorise expenditure, expenses and invoices etc. as appropriate to the therapy budget(s).
- Staff Management
- To be responsible for the overall coordination of workforce plans, recruitment and retention across the therapeutic teams, accessing support from HR as necessary.
- To effectively manage the lead therapists by setting clear professional objectives and targets.
- Provide lead therapist with regular supervision and appraisal in accordance with YE policies and procedure.
- To promote good team working both across the therapeutic team and therapists with other disciplines.
- To arrange and chair regular therapy meetings and ensure these are properly recorded and actions followed up as necessary.
**Skills and Qualifications**:
- Degree plus professional qualification in relevant Therapeutic Field to allow registration to practise.
- Ability to develop, improve and deliver therapeutic services.
- Experience of managing large budgets.
- Clinical experience of developing and delivering highly effective person-centred pathways.
**Benefits**:
- £250 refer a friend scheme
- Perk Box discounts and vouchers
- Subsidised dining room
- Discounted Gym Memberships (on and off site)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Employee assistance programme
- Flexible Working
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