A Vacancy at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to join the Acute Therapies team, working within one of the Orthopaedic Teams at either HRI or CRH.
The successful therapist will be based within the Acute Therapies Team and will take a lead role providing clinical leadership within the Elective or Trauma Orthopaedic teams across both sites alongside a peer clinical lead. You will be expected to manage the team and work clinically in one of these pathways and work closely with your fellow clinical lead to promote and develop both services.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Orthopaedics. The role will require you to have skills in complex discharge planning, have excellent therapeutic skills, and a sound knowledge of treating surgical orthopaedic patients. You will need to have a passion for service development and training within an orthopaedic setting but also be prepared at times to support the wider Acute Therapy Team if required.
You will need to have substantial, previous experience as a Band 6 or Band 7 Physiotherapist, confident in treating complex surgical /ortho patients, be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills and have experience of working in a relevant clinical field.
· · To manage own highly specialist therapy caseload in orthopaedics and supervise and delegate work to colleagues.
·· To take part in the education and training of therapists, support workers, qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
· To support the Team Leaders and Therapy Service Managers in the day to day running of the Team including support staff.
· To work with other members of the MDT to ensure effective care pathways and transfer of care / discharges.
· To proactively and appropriately facilitate a seamless transfer of care and continue therapeutic management of patients between care settings. This will involve having a sound working knowledge of Criteria to Reside / National Discharge Policy
· To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to the training and competency levels of other team members to ensure the effective delivery of the service.
· To participate in the supervision process with staff on a daily basis and for students as required.
To participate in out of hours working where required including 7 day a week rotas.
· To support the Acute Therapy Team when needed.
· To participate in the Respiratory on-call service and attend in service training/updates
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
For detailed job description and main responsibilites please see attached Job description and personal specification
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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