Principal Therapist - Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 381-CT-7040353
Site: SWB NHS Trust
Town: Sandwell and West Birmingham
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
Job overview
Are you an experienced clinician who is:
* Ambitious to improve services?
* Passionate to teach and inspire?
* Seeking freedom to lead?
* Innovative and driven?
Sandwell & West Birmingham are seeking to recruit an experienced Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist with well-developed leadership, communication and engagement skills as the Service Lead within our Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service. This Service Lead role includes both clinical and service leadership & development responsibilities, ideally suited to someone with advanced clinical skills looking to retain a clinical portfolio whilst also having the opportunity to lead and influence service change.
Main duties of the job
As an integrated Acute and Community Trust, this role will be acute service facing, based at our new acute hospital site – Midland Metropolitan University Hospital – with a focus on development of services and pathways to provide excellence in clinical care across the patient journey.
The successful candidate will have a clinical background in Trauma and Orthopaedics and the ability to work at an advanced clinical level, alongside a proven track record of leading for quality improvement, including the ability to develop multidisciplinary working relationships to enable and lead delivery of change at pace whilst strengthening quality and safety standards.
Alongside relevant clinical experience, applicants will demonstrate excellent communication and critical thinking skills, with strong leadership skills, including in challenging situations. The successful applicant will also be passionate about the value of our AHP workforce and in continuing to develop our workforce of highly engaged and skilled therapists and therapy support workers.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy
* HCPC Registration
* Post-graduate education to Masters level or equivalent
* Membership of the CSP/RCOT
Experience
* Extensive post-graduate experience across a range of specialties including experience within either a trauma & orthopaedic therapy setting
* Sufficient experience at Team Lead level (Band 7) to demonstrate knowledge and skills required for the post
* Evidence of having delivered change for improvement
* Working with Higher education institutes
* Developing policy and clinical protocols
* Education of therapy staff and the MDT
* Involvement in clinical audit, research and quality improvement projects
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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