PMG2025 Training | Conference | Exhibition
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Clinical Lead
Ref: VA952
Hours: 40
Salary: Depending on experience
Organisation: AJM Healthcare
Closing Date: 17/01/2025
We are looking to recruit a Clinical Lead to join our Integrated Wheelchair Service. This is an exciting role as you will have the opportunity to provide expert clinical leadership to our team, deliver clinical operational performance, and simultaneously work with the operational management team to focus on continuous quality improvement. You will be supporting a talented group of local clinical staff including occupational therapists, physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistants, rehabilitation engineers and rehabilitation engineering technicians. You will work closely with the clinical director and clinical leads/managers from the other AJM wheelchair services. We have developed strong professional excellence sharing networks across the organisation and have an embedded quality assurance framework. You will promote the service and work of the organisation through relevant national bodies, such as the Posture and Mobility Group, and professional bodies. This role provides you with the opportunity to focus on offering your vision and leadership to improve the quality of service user outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Be responsible for developing and maintaining the clinical foundation of the service within our clinical governance structure; this will include applying clinical policies and procedures, particularly clinical supervision, caseload management and clinical audit.
2. Manage, coach, lead, and develop staff on a day to day basis.
3. Empower the team to achieve results within a measurable and structured approach, ensuring full accountability for actions and problem resolution, also promoting interdisciplinary working.
4. Ensure clinical competency and high standards of clinical practice in line with local, national and regulatory policy.
5. Proactively promote the service across the county, working with our partnership and engagement team to ensure service user involvement and joint working with other agencies and organisations.
6. Lead the clinical development of the service in line with national guidelines and developments in the evidence base.
7. Work closely with the service management team to meet key performance indicators.
8. Lead from the front by using highly advanced clinical reasoning to fit and, with tools, adjust equipment to meet service user needs; this will involve detailed instruction on safe use and care of the equipment.
9. You will have your own clinical caseload for which you are responsible; you will plan the rota of work for the clinical team as a whole, working closely with customer services.
10. Ensure holistic assessment is provided to all service users, establishing their abilities, limitations and needs with regard to physical, sensory, cognitive, perceptual and social functioning, and determining the need for onward referral to other services.
To be considered for this role, you must hold an Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or Engineering qualification and hold either a Health Care Professional Council (HCPC), Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT) or Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) Registration.
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