Job Description

The Service & Team:

Our Service provides comprehensive support from the initial contact and assessment phase, gathering essential information to determine the most appropriate next steps using a solution-focused approach. This includes offering information and advice, signposting individuals to other agencies, and progressing to our reablement services to maximise the person’s ability to remain as independent as possible.

By working within and across our primary care networks, we are identifying the best solutions to ensure individuals remain safe and supported at home. Sharing your knowledge and expertise will help your team members grow, achieve their goals, and collectively deliver better outcomes.

The Role:

Access Therapy Team Lead:

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead the newly formed Access Therapy Team as part of the Access Service for Adult Social Care. The Access Therapy Team Lead will work in close collaboration with the Access Team Lead, working under the leadership of the Service Manager. The Access Therapy Team Lead will be responsible for the Therapy and Sensory workflow through the Access Service. The post holder will be responsible for line management of a Team of OTs and OTAs to ensure that the residents of Cornwall who are requesting therapy or sensory support, are supported as early on in the journey as possible. The post holder will look for opportunities for work flows to be improved to support as swift as possible outcomes. The post holder will also be responsible for contributing to the target of 70% of work ending in no further action via Access, alongside ensuring those who require input from the Locality Therapy Teams are referred on in a timely manner. The post holder will need to develop excellent working relationships with health therapy leads, alongside the ASC Locality Therapy Leads. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development of a new service, with support provided by the Service Manager as line Manager and will have a dotted line to the Principal Occupational Therapist for practice support and guidance.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

What you’ll need to succeed:

Occupational Therapist qualification and registration essential. Management experience desirable but not essential

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

· a competitive salary.

· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

· A national award-winning employee health and well being programme

· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Rachael Ellis on rachael.ellis@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.