Business Support Manager (Therapies) Location : The Children's Trust Contract Type : Permanent Specific Hours : 30 hours per week (0.8 FTE) Salary : £42,000 per annum, pro rata An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Manager (Therapies) to join our Therapy Team. The role of the Business Manager (Therapies) is to provide high quality support to the Director of Therapies & Education and by extension, their directorate. As the Business Manager (Therapies) you will play a vital part in optimising the performance of the Director of Therapies & Education representing the Director in a professional and trusted manner. You will enhance the Directors effectiveness by providing information management support, as well as proactively leading on specific projects including budgets, recruitment, retention as well as by researching, collecting, and analysing information and scoping requirements for the School, Rehab and Community therapy teams. This role is not open to sponsorship. Role Requirements Attend identified meetings across the organisation related to regulatory compliance and track and monitor patterns for quality assurance. Track, monitor and plan for mandatory training compliance to be maintained, producing and distributing relevant training / information materials to ensure consistency of advice / guidance. Track and monitor sickness and annual leave across the team to provide overview to the Director. Lead on updating Risk Registers, working in partnership with Directors and managers to support the review of progress, tracking and actions. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues in own team, across site and with external contacts. Lead on the coordination, implementation and monitoring of NHS job planning across the therapies directorate. Ability to coordinate comprehensive policies, monitoring the policy register, liaise with critical readers ahead of appropriate committee ratification. Ensure policies are on the correct template and format. Support with external visitors and event coordination. Diary management & organisation. Draft documents on behalf of Director (such as power point decks/ committee papers) as required. Undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time. Work in partnership with the Business Support Managers to establish and embed the roles of Business Support Managers across the organisations. Interview Date: 24th and 25th February Terms and Conditions Strictly no agencies, please. As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion. About Us The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service. Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom. Staff Benefits The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teachers pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment. Rehabilitation of Offenders Many roles at The Childrens Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Childrens Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions. Equal Opportunity Employer To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UKs diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networksacross the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements. Online Searches In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidates name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview. ADZN1_UKTJ