North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
We have an exciting 12 month secondment or fixed term opportunity for a dynamic and highly skilled Physiotherapist to lead our acute Physiotherapy services across North Cumbria and act as Professional Lead across the whole organisation. With the Lake District, the coast and the historic city of Carlisle on your doorstep alongside a clinically-led and diverse organisation spanning acute and community care, a work-life balance is guaranteed.
This role requires a forward thinking Physiotherapist with the skills to utilise the specialist clinical practice that already exists within the team, with strategic and operational leadership, utilising innovation to evaluate, develop, implement and analyse working practices within the Physiotherapy service through the use of evidence based practice, audit, research and outcome measures to ensure effective and efficient pathways of care and service delivery for the population of North Cumbria.
As the Head of Physiotherapy you will provide strategic, operational, professional, clinical leadership and governance for Physiotherapists. Alongside the Associate Director of AHPs and AHP leads you will play an integral role in the fulfilment of NCIC's focus and vision of moving care closer to home. You will also lead on workforce development with an emphasis on recruitment, retention, role development and lead on developing research and education within the profession and with academic partners.
Main duties of the job
* To provide leadership to the professional staff group within the System ensuring that professional standards are set, implemented, monitored and maintained.
* To manage the service specific staff within Physiotherapy Services to include recruitment, retention through career development and appraisal, management of poor performance and sickness absence.
* To represent The Profession within the System and externally participating in professional and multi-agency forums across the region and nationally as required ensuring the wider contribution from the profession.
* To work closely with the ADAHP to develop an environment of flexibility and interdisciplinary co-operation leading to the provision of a comprehensive and responsive professional service to patients and carers.
* To provide professional advice to Collaboratives and Partnership Organisations based upon evidence and good practice.
* To take a lead role in workforce planning and career structure design for the profession within the System to inform recruitment and retention within the service.
* To ensure that the service is provided within designated budget, identifying and delivering efficiency measures as appropriate.
* To oversee the education of the professions' students, co-ordinating practice placements and liaising with University and Colleges.
* To be responsible for own continued professional development.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Profession specific degree or equivalent diploma.
* State registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
* Evidence of CPD and relevant post-graduate courses and/or significant relevant experience to Masters Level or equivalent.
* Management Qualification
* Member of Professional Body
* Leadership Qualification
Knowledge
* Extensive profession specific knowledge, application of theory, best practice and procedures.
* In depth knowledge and understanding of current NHS policy and their implication for professional practice.
* Have experience of working in a leadership/managerial role.
* Proven record of achieving service development, managing change and performance.
* Have knowledge and understanding of the principles of business planning and other management processes in the NHS and their application in practice.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, organisation, time management problem solving and prioritisation skills.
* Appropriate clinical skills.
* Motivational and change management skills.
* Teaching and presentation skills.
Experience
* Experience, knowledge and proven track record of delivery in managing a range of diverse and complex operational services.
* Experience of managing people and financial resources at a senior level.
* Experience of developing services through facilitating change and innovation in a multi-disciplinary team(s).
* Experience of Business Planning to include developing & producing business plans/cases and Budgetary Management.
* Experience in writing policies and procedures.
* Project Management.
* Experience of working in NHS Therapy services.
* Experience of working across departmental and organisational boundaries to deliver specific targets and to improve services for patients.
* Evidence of organisational, regional and national healthcare awareness.
* Comprehensive knowledge of all Local and National Performance Indicators.
* Evidence of adopting national or international benchmarking to improve quality and efficiency.
Personality and Disposition
* Confident, highly motivated.
* Leadership qualities, enthusiastic with ability to motivate others.
* Ability to manage conflict and difficult situations.
* Ability to use own initiative, make decisions, work under pressure and to tight timescales when necessary.
Personal Circumstances
* Ability to cope with the physical demands of the post which may include driving, manual handling of patients and regular travel to all the sites of the System and to other venues across the region.
Other Requirements
* Promote equality and value diversity (Level 3).
* Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity (Level 4).
* Participate in any on-call arrangement or shift system on site which is associated with this role, in order to fulfil the requirements of the base service and also the wider Trust.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Associate Director of Allied Health Professions
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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