Job Introduction
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Team Manager to lead our Occupational Therapy 0–18 Service, supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a dedicated team of professionals delivering high-quality, evidence-based interventions across a diverse caseload.
The role requires you to work in a multi-disciplinary setting. The main duties include - providing leadership and supervisory and oversight to 1 Senior Occupational Therapist and 5 Occupational Therapists.
The post holder will do this through the provision of management, professional expertise, skills and advice to ensure we deliver high quality services within Children Social Care.
The Team Manager will deliver a safe, strength-based service, promoting and improving independence, ensuring comprehensive person-centred assessments, reviews and interventions ensuring residents are safeguarded, enabling choice and control regarding their accommodation, care and support needs.
The post holder will act as a role model and expert practitioner within the team. You will build on the team’s ethos of reflective practice, learning and development.
Key responsibilities
- Provide leadership and operational management for the OT 0–18 team.
- Ensure delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred services in line with statutory requirements and best practice.
- Manage performance, budgets, and resources to achieve service objectives.
- Support staff development through supervision, training, and appraisal.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, families, and external agencies to promote integrated care.
- Drive service improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic planning.
About you
- Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration.
- Significant experience working within paediatric OT services.
- Proven leadership and management skills within a health or social care setting.
- Strong communication, organisational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Additional details
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service DBS check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents Medway.
- A generous annual leave entitlement up to 30 days plus bank holidays.
- An excellent local government pension scheme.
- An essential car user allowance with option to apply for a lease car after six months.
- Free car parking.
- Hybrid working - enabling you to work from home/office (minimum of 2 days per week will be required in the office).
- A range of staff benefits and discounts including access to fantastic discounts and savings on shops and services, travel discounts, health and wellbeing support, and an employee assistance service.
- Access to professional development and support including Community Care Inform.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 14th December 2025
Our organisation
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.
Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.
Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement
Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age
For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
