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Clinical Team Lead Physiotherapist/ OT/ SLT
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: AHP Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract: Fixed Term until end of February 2026 Hours:
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
22.5 hours per week (flexible working days considered) Job ref: 435-D022-25
Site: Rakehead Rehabilitation Centre Town: Burnley Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
New challenge!
We are looking to recruit x3 part time roles for a Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist and Speech and language therapist. The hours of these roles will be discussed at interview and are dependent on successful candidates and current available funding.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist and Speech and language therapist to take up the role of clinical specialists for the NeuroRehab Online (NROL) service. This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to develop digital skills to develop and support virtual groups for rehabilitation and self management within the current NROL service.
All roles will be fixed term contracts ending on the 24th February 2026.
As part of this role, you'll help create and implement new therapy groups into the NROL programme whilst facilitating the delivery of these online groups with patients.
Main duties of the job
You will be a healthcare professional with a strong clinical background, ideally with experience of stroke and neurorehabilitation. You will have excellent clinical qualities and experience of treating patients in the community. You will be responsible for reviewing current group content whilst developing new online groups. Also, a large part of your role will be delivering the NROL groups to up to 15 patients per session, with the aim to increase therapy frequency and intensity for our patients as per national clinical guidelines, and continuing to improve patient outcomes and experience.
You will work closely with all staff within NROL and referring teams, ensuring high quality, effective and efficient care for patients. You will work in partnership with Operational Leads / Clinical service leads/ NROL lead.
ELHT is the host organisation with delivery involving patients and therapists from across the providers in the Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB and in collaboration with Lancaster University.
An ability to work virtually and across all sites at ELHT as required is essential.
Working for our organisation
Established in 2003, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.
The NROL team have been delivering virtual group therapy for over three years, establishing a community of practice in stroke & neurorehabilitation, with NROL embedded as part of service delivery across Lancashire & South Cumbria.
NROL is an innovative online program providing virtual rehabilitation group therapy and self management for stroke and neurological patients. The post will support a funding bid into ways to scale and develop the NROL model further to meet national guidelines for therapy post stroke. You will be working closely with Occupational Therapists /Physiotherapists /Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Assistants, researchers at Lancaster University, technology support and admin within the NROL service. Along with receiving support from SameYou charity, Health Innovation North west coast and ELAROS digital technology company.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working within the NROL service which supports multidisciplinary teams across the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS, you will act as the Clinical Lead for your profession within the NROL service providing a high level of clinical expertise with regard to highly specialist assessment skills and interactions within a defined patient group. With therapy delivery predominantly online in groups within the NROL programme.
Provide clinical leadership to designated therapists in the delivery of a highly effective, safe and personal service, delivered around the needs of individual patients/carers as described by agreed goals/outcome measures and within defined clinical pathways.
An active member of the leadership structure, the postholder will contribute toward the strategic operational and clinical development of the service.
Provide teaching and highly specialist support in the management of complex conditions, educating other healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders.
The service operating hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.
MAIN DUTIES include:
* Support the development of the current NROL program, reviewing current content and developing evidence-based content in collaboration with key stakeholders and clinical staff.
* Lead the delivery of high-quality online groups within the NROL programme and review and evaluate the quality of the therapy provided.
* To provide clinical leadership and highly specialised expertise to a defined patient group to ensure that pathways, standards, competencies, training and monitoring are in place for the designated team, using agreed clinical pathways.
* Undertake comprehensive assessments at a highly specialist level, set patient centred goals, create evidence-based treatment plans, monitor, and evaluate a designated caseload of patients.
* Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical factors including physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, and cultural aspects of the patient’s life. To provide advice and intervention to facilitate an optimum level of function.
* Formulate goals in partnership with the patient, clearly communicating your clinical reasoning to justify your recommendations and utilising the most appropriate treatment/intervention for the patients’ needs.
* Responsible for the effective management of a complex caseload individually and within the team, requiring allocation and reallocation of work on a daily basis to meet changing clinical priorities and adherence to quality and performance measures.
* Contribute to the wider multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based expertise within your specialist area.
* Contribute to the creation and review of procedures, standards and guidance relating to clinical practice and monitor effectiveness.
* Liaise with peers and specialist interest groups both regionally and nationally, to collaborate, share learning and develop shared resources to achieve standardised, best practice within your clinical area.
* Ensure the service provided by yourself and your team is safe, personal and effective. Achieving compliance to governance standards through monitoring, performance, incident reporting, risk management, outcome measures, patient experience, compliments and complaints.
* Assess capacity of patients in order to gain valid informed consent for intervention and work within organisational policy with patients who lack capacity.
* Initiate and organise reviews involving multiagency partners, taking the role of key worker, coordinator where required.
Person specification
Qualification
* HCPC/equivalent registered with current registration.
* Clinical and leadership experience in stroke and/or neurorehabilitation.
* Profession specific Degree/ Diploma.
* Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical service area.
* Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Group.
* Evidence of working at MSc Level.
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:
* Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
* This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
* Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
* Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006), any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.
The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post.
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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.
We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.
We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.
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