AHP Clinical Team Lead - Older Persons Mental Health
We have an exciting opportunity within our Older Persons Mental Health Services for an Allied Health Professional Clinical Team Lead role. We are seeking an innovative, flexible, experienced and dynamic clinician to provide both clinical and managerial leadership to our AHP's across the Julian Hospital older persons inpatient wards.
We are looking for a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist with specialist clinical skills and senior decision-making skills with a passion for quality improvement and using national best-practice guidelines to influence clinical practice.
You will be required to use your specialist clinical skills to support service users across a range of wards as well as your strategic skills to support with the development of the service. You will be supported to develop both your clinical and strategic leadership skills.
This role will be based at the Julian Hospital to cover the Older persons inpatient wards. There will be also the opportunity to work with the Older Persons community teams to support and influence Community Transformation.
Main duties of the job
Within this role you will:
1. Provide clinical leadership across the AHP professions.
2. Provide line management supervision to the AHP Band 6's in the team and ensure a structure is in place for the supervision and development of AHP Band 5's and 4's.
3. Advocate for the AHP workforce whilst acting as a central point of contact for leading on decisions relating to Older Person's AHP services.
4. Provide specialist clinical input across the service to support with complex clinical cases.
5. Lead the local AHP meeting and to work with the workforce to ensure outcomes from feedback are actioned.
6. Review audits with the wider team to support the development of clinical practice.
7. Liaise with the Clinical Team Leaders to share this information to support line management supervision.
8. Role model and foster strong working relationships between the AHP groups, to ensure that care is integrated and results in the best possible outcomes for service users.
9. Oversee the roster for AHPs to ensure that the clinical needs of the service are met.
10. Support and manage the attendance and management responsibilities for the team.
11. Liaise with the wider teams to inform them of changes to service provision in response to changes in the workforce.
About us
Support the recruitment and induction of new AHP staff members.
1. Work closely with the Locality AHP Lead and Principal Lead to support development of the service delivered in order to improve service and service user outcomes.
2. Be the conduit for taking information to and bring back information from internal and external AHP forums.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us?
We have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong AHP networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job descriptions for further information. The Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Job Description is pending Job Evaluation so may be subject to amendments.
Please note:
1. Build close connections with each of the ward managers to gain input into the management of the AHPs.
2. For the clinical aspects of this role you will not be allocated to a specific ward, instead you will be required to work flexibly and support across the service to meet the clinical needs.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
1. NHS pension
2. a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
3. career progression
4. starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
5. staff physio service
6. NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. BSc/MSc Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
2. Registered with the HCPC
Desirable
1. Qualification in advanced clinical practice
2. For Physiotherapist (member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy / CSP) or if Occupational Therapist (member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists / RCOT)
Knowledge
Essential
1. Specialist clinical knowledge of AHP professions working in mental health
2. Working knowledge of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures
Experience
Essential
1. Experience of working within Older Persons Mental Health Services
2. Experience of working as a practice educator
Desirable
1. Broad range of experience in a range of settings
2. Experience of working within NHS
3. Management experience
Skills
Essential
1. Effective analytical & advanced clinical reasoning.
2. Complex Manual Handling skills
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Julian Hospital
Bowthorpe Road
Norwich
NR2 3TD
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