Main area ICRAS Urgent Care Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (hours negotiable) Job ref 350-COM6709246-A
Site Litherland Town Hall Town Liverpool Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/02/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges.
We’re looking for a therapy team lead to join our existing multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you’re motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
You’ll have operational leadership for: occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants/assistant practitioners, ensuring high standards of therapeutic interventions are delivered to our patient population, alongside maintaining performance in line with CQC standards. This includes provision/oversight of audits, staff development, sickness management etc. There may also be a clinical element to the role depending upon capacity and service delivery needs.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long-term conditions, Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL) – working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.
As a leader there are many development opportunities such as ICRAS succession plan including management modules, ARRIVE training, Edward Jenner and much more.
Main duties of the job
1. Team Lead responsibility for a cohort of staff - occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants.
2. Responsibility for service development through audits, overseeing training and staff development.
3. Operational and leadership of sickness management, staff/team performance, audits, Datix, annual leave, team meetings, staff health and well-being etc.
4. Oversee recruitment and retention.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent qualification.
* Appropriate prescriber.
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
* Registration with relevant professional body.
Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience.
* Experience of management and clinical leadership.
* Experience of successful multi-agency working.
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care.
* Understanding how other agencies work.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Skills
* Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
* Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* Report writing skills.
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
* Change oriented.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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