We are currently recruiting for a Band 7 Community Rehabilitation Physiotherapy Team Lead for East Integrated Community Rehabilitation Team.
Working in partnership with the Band 7 Occupational Team Lead, your area of focus will be professional leadership and operational management of the teams and ensuring the assessment, planning and delivery of evidence-based reablement and rehabilitation. In partnership with your PCN leads in Nursing and Adult Social Care you will continue to strengthen an effective, integrated multi-disciplinary approach within the locality teams.
If you are an Physiotherapist with extensive experience of working in the health care setting, this is a fantastic opportunity for the leadership and management skills you already have to drive excellence and promote rehabilitation within our neighbourhood and as part of the North Cornwall Primary Care Area's.
• To lead and manage the operational services of the Community and Inpatient Therapy teams in East Cornwall, taking into account local health needs and the policy priority of developing services closer to home with a focus on the Inpatient ward.
• Responsible for the delivery and maintenance of high quality evidence based care, focused on meeting the needs and choices of patients, carers and families.
• To foster positive relationships with local commissioning boards and community and voluntary organisations.
• Responsible for creating an effective, integrated multi-disciplinary approach within the locality teams.
• To ensure best practice guidelines and performance standards are met while meeting service targets.
• To be an autonomous practitioner responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with highly complex health and social care needs.
• To provide developmental leadership and management to all staff within the locality and with responsibility to form and inform future service development.
• Provide support to Integrated Care team Manager (ICM), to accept delegated responsibility for specific tasks.
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Sep 2024