Are you looking for a new, varied and exciting role?
Due to maternity leave, we have a fixed term opportunity for a professional Lead in Physiotherapy to join our Older People and Therapies CDG.
This role will provide strategic and clinical leadership to the Physiotherapists working within the acute and Community Hospitals. You will ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive professional leadership.
You will be overseeing and providing professional leadership for our Physiotherapists and assistants to ensure we deliver a, safe, compassionate high quality care.
You will also work alongside other therapy professional leads and with the AHP Strategic Lead, Head of Therapies and General Manager on operational and strategic planning and development of the Integrated Therapy Service and to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day – to – day work.
To apply a broad background of clinical and leadership skill and experience to the management of the service.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service.
To provide professional leadership for the Physiotherapist employed within the Integrated Therapy Service at ESNEFT.
To represent Therapies at Governance Forums across the Division.
To be accountable for staff and patient safety when delivering Integrated Therapy Services within ESNEFT.
To be accountable for the management of the recruitment process for all Integrated Therapy Service staff (liaising with Finance and Human Resources).
To act as a source of expert advice and leadership to the MDT and Head of Therapies in matters regarding Physiotherapy.
To oversee the clinical work of designated teams and support/facilitate good practise in workload and caseload management.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Oct 2024