Service Manager

Overview

In this role you lead Core Therapy, Adult Early Prevention and Local Integrated Teams, driving strengths-based, person-centred care. You provide strategic and operational leadership across health and social care partnerships to promote prevention, early intervention and integrated working. You’ll enable timely support to maximise independence, wellbeing and quality of life, while shaping services to reduce long-term care reliance. You will act as a visible leader, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement in a challenging, outcome-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to multidisciplinary teams
• Champion prevention, early intervention and integrated working across services
• Drive service improvement to achieve excellent outcomes and maximise resident independence
• Ensure timely, person-centred support and interventions within homes and communities
• Lead cross-service collaboration and flexible staffing to meet service demands
• Oversee budget management and financial stewardship
• Cover additional duties as required to maintain service delivery
• Build and maintain partnerships with health colleagues, service users and stakeholders

Key requirements

• Qualified Occupational Therapist with proven leadership and management experience
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive service improvement
• Strong budget management and strategic decision-making
• Excellent partnership building and stakeholder engagement
• Strategic thinker with effective communication across services
• Right to Work in the UK; DBS check required

• leadership
• strategic thinking
• communication
• collaboration
• change management

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