Practice Development Officer

Sheffield City Council; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Job description

In Sheffield working with people is our passion, we always 'start with strengths' with our residents and our people.

Our Adults Care and Wellbeing Services are committed to enabling people to achieve their desired outcomes, meeting their needs in a strengths based way and improving or maintaining their wellbeing.

Adults Care and Wellbeing plays a key role in delivering our portfolio vision for people to live the life they want to live. The Practice Development Team works in conjunction with the Leadership Team and managers across Adults Care and Wellbeing services to bring our vision to life.

We are looking to recruit a HCPC registered Occupational Therapist to join the practice development team and work under the guidance of the Principal Occupational Therapist.

This role will be key in supporting Occupational Therapy staff to develop a best practice approach which reflects the voice of our customers and maintains professional standards.

In addition, the postholder will support the development of skills and knowledge across Adult, Care and Wellbeing services to ensure we have a strong focus on person centred approaches, maintaining independence and occupational justice.

This role includes line management responsibilities.

Key Duties

• Delivery upon key elements of our Sheffield Workforce Development Strategy, with particular emphasis on Occupational Therapy practice and workforce planning.
• Provide practice development support to services across all Adults Care and Wellbeing services in relation to Occupational Therapy models, proportionate approaches to care and person centred practice to ensure high quality standards and best outcomes for the people of Sheffield.
• To identify practice trends across Adults Care and Wellbeing, locally and nationally. Using research and evidence to identify priorities and design initiatives to improve practice and / or address specific issues or concerns.
• To manage, in collaboration with Services, the drafting, production, communication, implementation, and review of policy and practice guidance. Working with Services to ensure guidance usage, compliance, and impacts are quality assured and monitored and so that best practice is continually developed.
• Line management of staff within the Practice Development team and manage other team members as required.
• Support the Principal Occupational Therapist with local, regional and National workstreams in relation to the National AHP strategy and Principal Occupational Therapy taskforce.
• Represent Sheffield City Council Occupational Therapy locally, regionally and Nationally as guided by the Principal Occupational Therapist.

Our values inform and define our ways of working;

• People are at the heart of what we do.
• Openness and honesty are important to us.
• Together we get things done.

If you share our values and have the knowledge, skills and experience we are looking for then we would love to hear from you.

Benefits

Salary Grade 9

22 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Local Authority Pension Scheme

Training & Continuing Professional Development opportunities.

We offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council.

The post is City Centre based and currently includes a mix of office based, visits and home working.

For an informal discussion please contact Amanda Greenhalgh on.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.