Assistant Therapy Manager

Job Description: Assistant Therapy Manager

Location: Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Competitive salary plus fantastic benefits

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday – on site

At Cromwell Hospital, the Therapy Department offers a wide range of specialist services for both inpatients and outpatients with dedicated teams providing Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Hand Therapy, and Complementary Therapies. The Physiotherapy services cover specialties including cardiothoracics, neurorehabilitation, oncology, orthopaedics, MSK, male and female health, and paediatrics.

You will be a qualified Physiotherapist with extensive clinical and operational experience. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and operational management to the Physiotherapy teams in conjunction with the Therapy Management, assisting the Therapy Manager with their responsibilities, and deputise them in their absence. You will also have an opportunity to participate in clinical case load.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Being responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the Physiotherapy Services, ensuring delivery of first-class services and maintaining the highest professional and clinical standards.
• Ensuring clinical Physiotherapy and governance requirements are met, as the primary point of contact with relevant regulatory bodies to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assisting the Therapy Manager in the operational management and leadership of the Therapy Department for all services, including deliverance of business and financial targets for service plans in line with the strategic objectives of the Hospital, deputising for the Therapy Manager in their absence.
• Ensuring effective, clear, and accurate lines of communication between Therapy Manager and Senior Management levels and Therapy staff to ensure outstanding staff engagement and satisfaction promoter scores.
• Effectively responding to directives from the Therapy Manager, Divisional leads, the Executive Team.
• Identifying opportunities and implement service improvements and market the department to promote services and new referrals.
• Ensuring high visibility in clinical and non-clinical areas, employing professional behaviours to enable, encourage, and inspire others to support Bupa's vision, Mission statement, and values and for the team to enthusiastically promote these.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential:

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Enhanced DBS clearance
• Post graduate training/qualification

Desirable:

• Registration with CSP
• Membership of Special Interest group(s)
• Leadership qualification
• Educated to master’s level

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
• Various other benefits and online discounts
• Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Clinical Services

Locations: Cromwell Hospital London

Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.