Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 7
Interview date: Week commencing 10th February 2025
We are recruiting for a Team Lead Physiotherapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of an integrated therapy team, consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Therapy Assistants to provide excellent therapy care to children and their families.
To ensure that you provide timely assessments and interventions to a variety of patients aged 0-18 across paediatrics, including baby MSK clinics, referrals from maternity, CF clinic, and respiratory outpatients by consultant referral, inpatient oncology, respiratory, orthopaedic, rheumatology, and mental health patients.
You will be provided with training and development opportunities to support your progress in this specialist role. Please note that this role will also involve some clinical work and management across the women's and pelvic health specialty.
With strong leadership, the day-to-day experience for our teams is a great one; staff are valued, excellent quality care is provided, and the passion for continuous improvement is high.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open, and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies and procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and a half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff, and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job responsibilities
To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patients where appropriate.
To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.
To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
To provide the specialist physiotherapy input to any outpatient and follow-up clinics as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree/Diploma in Professional Field
* Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
* Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD to Masters Level
Knowledge
* Communicating with patients and a wide range of health care professionals
* Knowledge of work procedures and practices
Experience
* Relevant experience including a broad range of clinical experience
* Experience in handling and communicating sensitive information
* Experience in health, acute hospital, or social care setting
* Experience of carrying out assessment and treatment in the context of complex medical and psychological problems where there are likely to be conflicting expert opinions
Skills
* Able to communicate with a wide range of professionals and the public
* Able to work collaboratively within an MDT
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments
Values Based Question
* How do you demonstrate respect and dignity?
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.
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum/pro rata
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