Job summary
Employer heading
Acting Team Lead Therapist - Surgical
Band 7
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Acting Team Lead Therapist - SurgicalÂ
Directorate: Cancer and Core clinical services
Care Group:Â Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 7Â Â Â Â Â
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata Â
Please note this role is Fixed term/Secondment for 3 months         Â
We are recruiting for a Acting Team Lead Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
As an Acting Team Lead Therapist, you will need to be motivated and enthusiastic with a broad range of acute hospital experience, demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to contribute to service development.
You will get an opportunity to develop your managerial and supervisory skills providing supervision to rotational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and Students. CPD is encouraged and supported.
We offer in-service training, peer groups, robust mandatory training in addition to many interesting courses run by the trust. External training is also supported where appropriate. The team provides robust Speciality specific training and upskills team members through area specific competencies.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be jointly managing alongside a Physiotherapy counterpart an integrated team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist and Therapy assistants
Your team will be working as part of an MDT including therapy staff, nurses, CSW's, Doctors and more to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality of care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD to Masters Level
- Degree/Diploma in Profesional Field
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of the challenges of group dynamics in patient groups
- Profficient in the use of Microsoft IT packages.
- Communicating with patients and a wide range of health care professionals.
- Able to work collaboratively within an MDT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience including broad range of clinical experience
- Awareness of principles of adult protection and safeguarding
- Experience in health, acute hospital or social care setting
- Experience in the correct handling and storage of data using paper or computer based entry systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of carrying out assessment and treatment in the context of complex medical and psychological problems where there are likely to be conflicting expert opinions
- Diplomatic and persuasive communication technique to challenge current practice and change historic working practices
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zara Elenkova
- Job title
- Acting Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07477929393
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