Job Title: Physiotherapy Team Leader - Trauma & Orthopaedics (in-patients)
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent (participation in weekend and on-call rota required)
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Closing Date: 9th November 2024
Interview Date: 19th November 2024 (subject to change)
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our T&O Team as the Therapy Lead.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the daily clinical and managerial leadership of the T&O Therapy service which consists of a mixed team of 12 staff and includes OT, Physio, and Therapy assistants. The service clinically covers 41 beds across 2 wards and has a twice weekly pre-op clinic as well as a newly formed Domiciliary service.
The successful candidate will have clinical experience in the area of Trauma and Orthopaedics as well as relevant leadership experience.
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly, including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment, and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
As Team Leader, you will have clinical and operational responsibility for T&O Therapy Services. Clinically, you will manage a small complex caseload and be the point of clinical excellence and development within the team, ensuring each team member has a personal development plan, regular review of clinical competencies, and overseeing a progressive in-service training plan. You will also ensure you are up to date with current practice guidelines.
Operationally, you will be responsible for the daily leadership and organisation of the T&O Team, which includes clinical supervision, performance management, sickness and absence management, staff appraisal, daily staffing numbers, and staff deployment across a 7-day service, service review, and service development.
Good prioritisation, organisational, and time management skills will be needed to balance clinical and non-clinical duties.
The successful candidate will demonstrate experience of service review and development, as this post requires continual review and occasional redesign of the services we offer to meet trust and national guidelines and targets.
You will be key to actively measuring and evaluating your work and current practices through Evidence-Based Practice projects, audits, and outcome measures, allowing you to make recommendations for and assist with change.
About us
Here at George Eliot, our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. As an ever-evolving clinically-led acute service provider, we are on a journey to continually provide high-quality, safe, and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly, and compassionate staff who share our corporate values. Our values bond us together, reflect our ambition, and shape who we are:
1. Effective Open Communication
2. excellence and safety in everything we do
3. Challenge but support
4. Expect respect and dignity
5. Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden, and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to provide clinical and team leadership, focusing on delivering high-quality care across the clinical areas and overseeing the successful delivery and expansion of the role of Therapy.
The successful candidate will be supported in post by the Inpatient Therapy services lead, as well as extensive CPD training opportunities and access to organisational development and leadership development opportunities.
Experience within service improvement and development is essential.
You will be expected to participate in the weekend T&O rota.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive; for more information, please find the full details in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
* Extensive postgraduate experience working within the relevant clinical field with a minimum of 5 years' experience
* Excellent advanced knowledge of the management of the relevant patient group
* Extensive experience of working closely with MDT
* Experience of clinical education of less experienced staff (including students)
* Experience working within the NHS
Desirable
* Evidence of participation in audit/research
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential
* Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
* HCPC registration
* Evidence of postgraduate learning
Desirable
* Membership of an appropriate special interest group
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Ability to work independently
* Ability to demonstrate autonomous highly specialized clinical intervention and decision-making
* Ability to demonstrate highly specialized assessment and treatment skills for complex acute specialist patients
* Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of best practices and current research in the specialist area
* Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments
* Ability to allocate and supervise other workers within the specialist area
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
* Ability to work within an MDT and with an interdisciplinary approach
* Critical appraisal
* Well-developed leadership skills
* Experience of service development
* Ability to manage own caseload
* Excellent organizational skills
* Appraisal and mentorship experience
* Very good presentational and educational skills
* Able to maintain judgement under pressure
* Able to deliver complex information in an interview way with patients while addressing barriers to understanding
Desirable
* Driving licence and access to a car
Employer details
Employer name
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address
George Eliot Hospital
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
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