Job Introduction
A rare opportunity has arisen to become part of the MSK North locality leadership team. This role requires the Physiotherapist to have excellent communication skills, experience of leading large teams, developing and implementing service improvements and data analysis skills.
The role will comprise of non-clinical and clinical hours. You will be expected to manage a complex caseload as a clinical specialist and provide high quality supervision for staff members.
The successful candidate will work alongside the Physiotherapy Head of Service to provide high quality, evidence-based physiotherapy and will be specifically involved with facilitating the operational development and delivery of the reset and recovery plan. You will be expected to travel across all sites in the North locality: Chippenham, Calne, Malmesbury & Savernake. It is critical that the post holder develops strong relationships with other locality leads to enable a consistent, high quality service throughout Wiltshire and to share learning and examples of good practice.
Our service is well respected, and we have developed strong relationships with local GP practices, Orthopaedic and Rheumatology consultants, midwives, as well as other healthcare professionals. Patients are able to self-refer to our service and we have a growing number of First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP) within the GP practices, who also refer patients to us.
The MSK service for Wiltshire is based in 11 community sites with excellent links to our acute hospitals in Bath, Swindon, as well as Salisbury.
Main Responsibility
1. To provide excellent leadership to all staff within the defined Community MSK Teams.
2. To deliver effective operational management of the team ensuring the resources available are utilized effectively and meet patient needs.
3. Use data and soft intelligence to deliver and enhance performance meeting and surpassing all key performance indicators.
4. To be the local contact for GPs in a given Locality group, acting in a Lead capacity in order to delight our customers and identify service development opportunities.
5. To contribute to the strategic planning including delivery of agreed business objectives.
6. To be an ambassador for the Outpatients Physiotherapy Services.
7. To regularly monitor activity level reports (financial, activity, workforce, business, intelligence and transformation) including all identification of exceptions and solutions/actions.
8. Identify with colleagues opportunities for service developments and contribute to the delivery of business cases.
9. To support policy changes and implementation within the Community setting.
10. Lead locally agreed service changes.
11. Work with other Locality Group Leaders to ensure a consistent approach to delivery across the division/service.
12. To continually measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit, and outcome measures.
13. To effectively manage the team within agreed resources.
14. To meet all financial and QIPP targets.
15. Meet all actions by workforce and Quality targets including the delivery of CQUiNS as appropriate.
16. Monitor the patient experience and constantly strive for improvement.
17. Support the Patient Safety and Quality (PSQ) lead to embed a culture of excellent governance.
18. Support the development of teams to deliver a clinically safe and effective service.
19. Role model clinical competency by maintaining own professional development.
20. Implement processes for sharing learning from complaints and incidents.
21. Understand the patient experience and work to promote positive experiences for all patients and their families.
22. Create an open and transparent culture within the team, which supports improvement and innovation.
23. Identify individual learning needs.
24. To be a clinical lead for the in-service training of physiotherapists within the specialty of musculoskeletal outpatients.
25. Contribute to the Divisional workforce plan, including the development of resources and ways of working.
The Ideal Candidate
* Registered Allied Health Professional (AHP) (Active HCPC registration).
* BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
* Educated to post graduate level or to have equivalent knowledge and experience.
* MSc or equivalent evidence of advanced knowledge in musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
* Leadership training.
Package Description
As a Locality Lead Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll be part of our valued team at our Stockton on Tees, Lawson Street Health Centre.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Free tea and coffee at your base location.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
* An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.
As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices, and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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