Job Profile
The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable, the skills, qualifications, and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Job Details
Job Reference: REQ00000017702
Date Posted: 06/01/2025
Application Closing Date: 03/02/2025
Location: Kendal
Salary: £63,830 - £66,642
Contractual Hours: 37
Basis: Full time
Job Description
Location: Kendal, Penrith or Barrow. Please note this role will include travel across the Westmorland and Furness Council footprint.
Contract Type: Permanent
About This Opportunity
We currently have the opportunity for a Service Manager to join our Occupational Therapy Service within Adult Social Care at Westmorland and Furness Council. We are a passionate, innovative service, dedicated to empowering and enabling adults to have a good quality of life, valuing their unique qualities, strengths, and rights, and putting our communities and people we support at the very heart of everything we do.
The Service Manager will be responsible for leading and maintaining the development of the Occupational Therapy Adult Service, ensuring the delivery of effective, strength-based outcomes for the people we support. This role also involves maintaining a close link with the Governance and Practice Service to ensure practice development across Occupational Therapy.
Who We Are Looking For
You will actively contribute to the development of both strategic and service level plans, leading the delivery of a high-quality and efficient service. You will be a visible leader within the service, modelling our core values, supporting the service to reach its potential and maintain practice standards through CPD and strong collaborative working with a variety of stakeholders at all levels.
We are looking for motivated individuals who possess great leadership skills and the drive to cultivate and nurture a supportive, strengths-based culture while motivating and inspiring others to generate success.
What Can We Offer You?
Working at Westmorland and Furness Council, you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance, and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site.
Would You Like to Find Out More?
For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria, please see our attachments. If you have any queries about this role or would like an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact Marianna Gumz on 07825340118.
Application and Interview Information
Closing Date: 3rd February 2025. We are currently operating both in-person and virtual interviews. Options will be discussed with candidates once they have been invited to the interview stage of the process for this specific position. If you have any concerns or adjustments needed, we are happy to discuss this with you.
DBS
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and requires an enhanced DBS check.
Safer Recruitment
At Westmorland and Furness Council, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk, and we expect all workers, employees, and volunteers to share our commitment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Westmorland and Furness Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and work to promote an inclusive, supportive culture that values and celebrates our differences.
As a Disability Confident Leader, disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of this job are guaranteed an interview. We also offer guaranteed interviews to Armed Forces personnel and veterans and those in care or care experienced and under 24 years old, that meet the essential criteria for the role.
Please note the essential criteria listed in the post specification for this role refers to the qualifications and experience relating to Occupational Therapy.
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