Occupational Therapy Team Manager

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO7 £59,511- £62,766 per annum
Interview: w/c 9th January 2026
Closing Date: Sunday 1st February 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are looking for a determined occupational therapist with experience in team management; with demonstrable skills of providing clear leadership and guidance, ability to motivate a multi-disciplinary team whilst ensuring a consistently high standard of service delivery. Often working under pressure, you will be a calming influence as you manage the workloads of your team, carry out professional supervision, and work jointly with the senior leadership team to achieve successful implementation of initiatives. Experience in major adapts and complex moving and handling for both adults and children and critical for this role.

The role is responsible for management of a multidisciplinary team, including Occupational therapists, Occupational Therapy assistants and apprentices, Hearing impairment officer, visual impairment officer, and equipment contract manager. The team serve the most vulnerable and complex adults and children across the borough and sits externally to that of the OT duty team and reablement service.

About you

Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration. Significant experience working within paediatric and adult OT services. Proven and demonstratable leadership and management skills within a health and social care setting. Clear communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills. Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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