Job summary
Employer heading
Team Lead Therapist - Enablement
Band 7
Job overview
Team Lead Therapist - Enablement
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: Band 7
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Team Lead TherapistÌýwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theÌýBest of Care by the Best PeopleÌýand 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
Undertake a team lead role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating a specialist Therapies Service, including specialist outpatient and follow up clinics as required.
As an autonomous practitioner to take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy treatment indicated.
Seven day working patterns apply. Involvement in the hospital wide physiotherapy on-call emergency physiotherapy service is required for Physiotherapy Team Leads.
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 theÌýBest 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
To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patents where appropriate.
To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.
To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Profesional Field
- Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD to Masters Level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of work procedures and practices
- Knowledge of carrying out assessment and treatment in the context of complex medical and psychological problems where there are likely to be conflicting expert opinions
- Strong understanding of enablement approach
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of relevant clinical experience
- Experience of Clinical Education of Students within area of expertise
- Sound understanding of clinical governance and risk
- Experience of leading change
- Experience of quality improvement and audit
Skills
Essential criteria
- Profficient in the use of Microsoft IT packages.
- IT skills required to compile data sets and reports in conjunction with business intelligence
- Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others within both formal and informal environements
- Excellent motivational and influencing skills
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 Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771710450
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