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Physiotherapy Head of Department / Manager, Blackpool
Client: Spire Healthcare
Location: Blackpool, United Kingdom
Job Category: Retail
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: f2b468a3c13d
Job Views: 4
Posted: 11.03.2025
Expiry Date: 25.04.2025
Job Description:
Accountabilities
* Develop practice in the assessment of health and wellbeing needs.
* Develop practice in addressing individual’s health and wellbeing needs.
* Establish and maintain communication with various individuals and groups on complex potentially stressful topics, across a range of situations.
* Develop own managerial and clinical knowledge and practice and assist others to continually professionally develop.
* Develop a working environment and culture that actively improves health safety and security.
* Develop strategies and policies for service improvement.
* Enable people to exercise their rights and promote their equality and diversity.
* Lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practices.
* Delegate work to others.
* Determine the effective use of physical and financial resources.
* Undertake Human Resource activities for all members of the team.
* Assist with research and development.
* Plan, monitor and quality assure the application of technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment of patients.
* Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
Specific Responsibilities
* In collaboration with specialist/highly specialist physiotherapists, set and monitor the standard of physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment capabilities and competencies across the team. Ensure they are implemented and regularly audited.
* Compare current physiotherapy practices, trends and developments against appropriate benchmarks, ensuring the implementation of best practice.
* Explain clearly to clients whose needs are being assessed their own and others’ responsibilities and how they inter-relate.
* Identify people’s health needs through observation, discussion and the use of technical assessment methods; obtain informed consent prior to the commencement of the assessment.
* Be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload. Using clinical reasoning skills to utilise a wide range of advanced treatment skills and options in order to formulate a clinical diagnosis and specialist programme of care.
* Collect, collate and organise data, interpret all of the information and make a justifiable assessment relating to clients’ physiotherapy needs, promote their wellbeing and reduce risks in the short and long term.
* Identify and discuss with colleagues the implication of assessment against their treatment, enable them to think through the risks and their effective management and the need for referral to others.
* Provide physiotherapy advice and support on assessment approaches and conclusions to colleagues and others, using highly developed clinical and managerial expertise. This should be provided proactively and on request.
PERSON PROFILE
Qualifications and Training
* Degree (BSc Hons Physiotherapy) or equivalent.
* Registered with the Healthcare Professional Council.
* Moving and handling Trainer/Instructor.
Experience
* Analysing physiotherapy management problems and coming up with viable solutions.
* Working as a practitioner in and across multi-disciplinary teams.
* Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied patient case mixes, which must include orthopaedics.
* Challenging consultants to influence evidence based practice.
* Share evidence based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
* Experience of working in partnership with consultants and participating in creating innovative solutions for the service.
* Experience of clinical leadership, developing peers and change management.
* Previous supervisory experience.
* Experience of independent sector.
* Support the commercial development of the business locally.
Knowledge and Technical Ability
* Competence across a range of physiotherapy, management and leadership skills supported by skilled professional knowledge.
* Maximising people and financial resources whilst maintaining a safe clinical environment.
* Management, motivation and development of the clinical team.
* Evidence of implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
* Supporting the commercial development of clinical services locally.
* Actively creating new business opportunities to support sales and profit targets in physiotherapy.
* Experience of working in partnership with consultants and participating in creating innovative solutions for new services.
* Challenging consultants to influence evidence based practice.
* Professional assessor.
* Auditing skills across clinical standards and departments.
* Evidence of post registration continual professional development.
* Keeps abreast of clinical developments in own field.
* Possess Equipment and Medical Devices Competences.
* Trained on MS Office and other relevant packages.
* Possess the Mandatory Training including Infection Control competences and health and safety.
* Root cause analysis.
* Demonstrate principles of accountable practice.
* English language to IELTS 7.0.
* Experience developing new services in an outpatient setting.
Skills and Behaviours
* Passion for Customers.
* Planning and Organisation.
* Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement.
* Communication and Influencing.
* Concern for Standards.
* Business Focus.
* Demonstrate your scope of practice underpins the six fundamental values of the 6 C’s (Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment) and the care they deliver to the patient at the point of contact treats them with respect and dignity.
* Demonstrate the Spire Values.
* Willing to work flexible patterns, evenings/on call.
* Registration with the Healthcare Professional Council.
* Willing to participate in flexible working pattern.
* Empathy for vulnerable and sick patients.
* Empathy for principles and importance of equal opportunities and dignity at work.
Judgement Skills
Involves highly complex physiotherapy and managerial facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison across a range of options.
Exhibit high performance practices to customers.
Think strategically while being commercially astute.
Freedom of Action
Autonomous practitioner, responsible for day-to-day management of self. Guided by principles and broad occupational policies and regulations, following general professional guidelines and standards from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Healthcare Professional Council and Spire Healthcare policies and procedures.
Manage teams and allocate teams’ activities while managing and developing individuals.
The post holder will function within an unpredictable, yet structured work pattern, which requires moderate physical skills, which are normally obtained through practice over a period of time. There will be short moderate bursts of activity during the provision of personal care to patients. Highly developed clinical reasoning and managerial ability requiring significant mental effort will be required during the assessment and treatment of patients and analysis of care documents and reports.
The post holder will work within a pleasant physiotherapy unit and multidisciplinary team at Spire Fylde Coast Hospital.
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