Job summary
Team Lead Physiotherapist - Women's Health
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Therapies and Older People
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.
We are recruiting for a Women's Health Team Lead Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Women's Health to co-lead our Paediatrics and Women's Health Therapy Team.
The candidate should share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
You will be provided with training and development opportunities to support your progress in this specialist role
With strong leadership the day to day experience for our teams is a great one, staff are valued, excellent quality care is provided and the passion for continuous improvement is high.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; we also offer an excellent benefits package which includes onsite childcare facilities, various salary sacrifice schemes and a generous annual leave entitlement.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of an integrated therapy team, consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants in order to provide excellent therapy care to children and their families
To ensure that you provide timely assessments and interventions for women's and pelvic health (inclusive of pre-natal clinics, referrals from pre and post-natal wards), breast care clinics and further interventions.
Part of this role will involve working alongside and supporting your paediatric team lead in inpatient wards and outpatient paediatric follow up clinics - additional training would be provided.
Our values are B old, E very Person Counts, S haring and Open and T ogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Active member of the hospital wide Physiotherapy emergency on-call service.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patents where appropriate
To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans
To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care
To provide the specialist physiotherapy input to any outpatient and follow up clinics as required
To ensure team members select and refer patients appropriately to other Healthcare Professionals and Therapy services, ensuring planned continuity of care
To assess patients for standard and bespoke aids and appliances, request their provision and teach patients/, carers and more junior staff in their safe application and use
To participate in physiotherapy and multi-professional working parties developing policy and service changes within specialist area which will impact on service users
To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care
To provide specialist advice to physiotherapy colleagues working within other clinical areas regarding specialist area
To provide specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the MDT regarding the physiotherapy management of patients in specialist area: this may involve challenging or requesting changes to treatment plans
To train, supervise and performance manage less senior staff, assistants and physiotherapy students. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation
To be a source of clinical expertise and advice for less experienced Therapists in your team and to assess needs for, plan and contribute to the delivery of an in-service training programme for your team
To communicate in a highly skilled and effective manner with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. This regularly includes people with communication/ comprehension difficulties and barriers to understanding, and can involve the delivery of difficult prognoses /outcomes of treatment
To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to and support team members to, work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
To undertake individual patient and generic clinical risk assessments, and ensure that the highest standards of patient risk assessment are met within your team
The job holder must comply with the Medway NHS Foundation Trust Infection Prevention and Control policies at all times and adhere to the Clinical Work Wear policy. In particular hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment. Mandatory training must also be completed and up to date
To be an active member of the hospital wide Physiotherapy emergency on-call service, attending competency training session and maintaining an on-call competency file
To maintain a high level of specialist knowledge in paediatrics and women's health, maintaining own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work
To be an active member of the Therapy service training programme by the attendance and delivering presentations and training sessions at staff meetings, tutorials, training sessions in house and by attending external courses, participating in peer review, working with Clinical interest groups and practising reflective practice
To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues, demonstrating an understanding of their roles, to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. This will include multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, discharge planning and attending / initiating case conferences
To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as both appraisee and apprasier for less experienced therapists and assistants
To initiate and undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own and your teams work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with clinical specialist or manager. Make recommendations for change to service delivery, protocols etc. in conjunction with Clinical Leads and Head of Therapy
To establish protocol for, and monitor the appropriate delegation of support work to assistants in your team by the qualified members of staff
To apply a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management to work situation and manage clinical Risk within your team in conjunction with Clinical Leads and Head of Therapy
To develop, update, monitor and audit therapy policies and protocols for clinical area, ensuring they are implemented by the team, and communicating with others where they impact on the wider therapy team.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Knowledge
Essential
1. Degree in Physiotherapy
2. Current Health Professions Council registration
3. Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
4. Postgraduate training
5. Knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of pelvic and breast cases demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
6. Awareness of relevant specialist community services
Experience
Essential
7. Broad range of experience at junior and senior level including highly acute environments with high demand for prioritisation of workloads
8. Experience of responding to demand / prioritising work / managing a caseload
9. On call competence
10. MDT and collaborative working
11. Experience of Clinical Education of Physiotherapy students
12. Experience in relevant clinical speciality
Skills
Essential
13. IT literacy
14. Experience of critical appraisal and research
15. Practical experience of audit techniques and analysis
16. Excellent interpersonal skills
17. Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others, in formal and informal environments
Value Based Question
Essential
18. Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome