Site: Phoenix Centre, Town Bromley
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 Inc HCAS Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/01/2025
Bromley Healthcare, a community interest company, delivers a diverse range of services encompassing community nursing (e.g., district nursing, health visiting, specialist nursing) and therapy services catering to individuals across all age groups. Stemming from the community provider unit of NHS Bromley, we boast extensive experience in serving the Bromley populace over many years.
Working at Bromley Healthcare offers a fulfilling experience. Our distinctive service delivery approach and commitment to hearing every employee's voice ensure a gratifying career journey. As a Social Enterprise, we embrace an innovative approach to healthcare delivery, combining the traditional strengths of the NHS, such as robust training and development opportunities, with the flexibility to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.
Employees of Bromley Healthcare whose role may be at risk will receive priority consideration.
Applicants for roles involving driving responsibilities will be required to provide proof of business insurance.
Job overview
Children's Physiotherapy Service Lead - Band 8a
Part time - 30 hours per week
Are you looking for the next step in your career leading Children's Physiotherapy services?
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated Physiotherapist to lead our service to Children and Young People here in Bromley.
We provide a high-quality and comprehensive physiotherapy service for children and young people within the community setting, clinics, and special schools. If you are a qualified Physiotherapist with experience working with children and young people and would like to support and proactively develop the future of the service, we would be pleased to hear from you.
We are based at the Phoenix Centre, a purpose-built centre in Bromley, collaboratively working with other children's and young people's services in the same location to ensure an MDT approach putting the child at the centre of our intervention.
The successful candidate will be motivated, organised, and committed to working within Bromley Healthcare's values and within a team environment.
An extended DBS check and fulfilment of the physical requirement of the post are detailed in the person specification. A clean driving license is desirable.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the clinical delivery and organisational management of the Children's Physiotherapy Service, ensuring the services provided are of high quality, effective, well-coordinated, and responsive to the changing needs of the local population. This includes physiotherapy services to children in their own homes, in special schools, mainstream schools, the Phoenix Centre, and pre-schools and nurseries.
Working for our organisation
Bromley Healthcare, as a community interest company, offers an extensive array of services ranging from community nursing, including district nursing and health visiting, to specialised nursing care, along with therapy services catering to individuals across various age groups.
Compensation is contingent upon NHS experience and current banding/pay point.
We provide an outstanding benefits package, which includes pension schemes, discounted gym memberships, a cycle-to-work scheme, access to home furnishings and electronics, access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP), discounts at various high street retailers, eligibility for the Blue Light Card, the opportunity to apply for low-interest personal loans, and an excellent lease car scheme. Additionally, we are continuously striving to enhance our employee benefits offerings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To lead the Children's Physiotherapy Team using strong leadership and managerial skills.
2. To ensure effective operational procedures are in place which support service standards.
3. Provide leadership by example and by being clearly visible to patients, relatives, and carers.
4. To establish, maintain, and monitor standards & competencies of clinical care for the Children's Physiotherapy Team and provide highly skilled, in-depth clinical and professional knowledge and expertise.
Person specification
Professional Registration
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development via a professional portfolio
* Completion of relevant postgraduate management programme
Qualifications
* Degree in Physiotherapy
* Management or Leadership Qualification
* Member of Special Interest Group
Skills
* Excellent leadership skills
* Good understanding of current issues relating to physiotherapeutic practice
* Advanced paediatric assessment skills
* Sound understanding of children's and adults safeguarding procedures
* Current UK driver’s license with access to a car for work purposes.
Experience
* Highly experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist, underpinned by a sound theoretical framework
* Significant experience at a senior clinical and leadership level
* Experience of supervising/appraising staff, students, and working with the clinical governance framework
* Proven ability to maintain and monitor high standards of practice
* Experience of successful change management
* Previous experience of managing a Children's Physiotherapy team
We are dedicated to caring for our service users and their loved ones, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we strongly encourage all colleagues to avail themselves of the Coronavirus vaccination.
To get a sense of what it's like to work with Bromley Healthcare, you can visit our YouTube channel at the following link: YouTube Channel.
Salary is determined by NHS experience and current banding/pay point. External applicants will begin at the entry point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms and conditions.
At Bromley Healthcare, we are fully committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured, and celebrated. Discrimination of any protected characteristic is not tolerated. Diversity and inclusion are key components of our People Strategy, as an equal opportunities employer, we are particularly eager to enhance Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.
We welcome applicants with a disability. We are able to support reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process; please let us know if you require any.
We understand the importance of balancing work and life, so we offer our staff a variety of flexible working options from day one. These include:
* Compressed hours
* Part-time
* Job shares
We encourage you to discuss this with your hiring manager, who will take your individual circumstances into account alongside the service needs.
We eagerly anticipate welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare. Please note that all offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six-month probationary period.
Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and an integral part of the NHS family. However, we pride ourselves on being different; as a co-owned social enterprise, Bromley Healthcare CIC is owned by its employees. This ensures that our staff remain under NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (provided they are eligible). If not, we offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.
1. Please ensure you check your emails regularly, as this is our primary mode of communication throughout the recruitment process. As a general guideline, interviews typically occur within 2 weeks of the closing date.
2. When providing employment reference details, please ensure you provide accurate work-related email addresses so references can be promptly sought when progressing your application. Your referees must be individuals known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.
3. All staff identified as AT-RISK who meet the requirements of the post will be prioritized accordingly.
4. The Trust utilizes the TRAC systems recruitment platform to administer all stages of the recruitment process, meaning that shortlisting information will not be communicated via NHS Jobs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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