Job summary
- Main area
- Digestive Diseases, Urology and General Surgery Services L3
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-DUG-6556722
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Personalised Cancer Care Prehabilitation Lead
Band 7
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic Therapist to lead transformation work across South Tees NHS Trust within the existing cancer pathways, to consider how prehabilitation can be accessed and delivered to improve the outcomes of patients following a cancer diagnosis.
The post holder will be employed as a Senior Specialist Therapist and will lead the project at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 12 months.
The project will explore the feasibility of developing and delivering a model of prehabilitation. It will aim to use or adapt existing services delivered in the acute trust and by the community teams to support the psychological wellbeing, dietary and physical activity needs of newly diagnosed cancer patients. The ultimate aim is to optimise patients’ health and wellbeing before, during and after primary cancer treatment.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be required to scope existing services that can be accessed within primary and secondary care by cancer patients with the aim to develop a model of prehabilitation for cancer. The post holder will support clinical teams to explore tumour specific prehabilitation interventions where required.
The post will seek to make a positive difference to those individuals diagnosed with cancer to ensure they have a good experience of cancer care and support them to live as healthily and happily as possible.
The post holder will work closely with cancer services and clinical teams, ICB, Macmillan and the Northern Cancer Alliance. They will also be responsible for ensuring that effective and close collaborative working relationships are established and maintained with health service and social colleague at all levels.
This post offers development in clinical and leadership skills and the post holder will be supported to attend relevant post graduate courses. We have an established and comprehensive training programme and our staff are encouraged and supported in their CPD through workshops, clinical supervision and the appraisal process. There is also an expectation to actively participate in audit and research and the Hospital has close links with both the University of Teesside and Durham University.
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions
• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates analytical skills and judgement when managing complex clients
- to display effective communication skills, communicating complex, sensitive and contentious information to patients, carers and colleagues
- • Basic IT skills
- • Audit and Research experience
- • Motivation and persuasion skills
- • Excellent teaching and supervisory skills
- • To display the ability to problem solve
- • Theoretical knowledge and applied clinical practice in specialist area.
- • Demonstrates extensive knowledge and experience within specialist area.
- • Evidence of taking a lead role in MDT working
- • Demonstrates detailed clinical reasoning skills.
- • Excellent presentation skills
- • Evidence of MDT teaching
- • Good understanding of the structure, policies, priorities, and format of the NHS
- • Fluent in written and verbal English
- • Knowledge of relevant national guidelines and standards
Desirable criteria
- Project management expereince
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc or Diploma in Therapy
- HCPC registration
- • Completed or willing to work towards an MSc if available or relevant post graduate courses at masters level.
Desirable criteria
- Formal leadership training
- Formal service improvement training
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in specialism at band 6 level including work as a Senior Therapist in a variety of specialties.
- • Evidence of relevant post graduate courses
- • Experience working as an autonomous practitioner at a band 6 level within the NHS.
- • Demonstrates experience of supervision and teaching more junior staff, students, and other members of the MDT.
- • Experience of being a clinical specific educator.
- • Experience evaluating the progress and impact of projects
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional body
- • Member of Specific Interest Group
- • Team leadership experience
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Act appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances
- Respond and adapt to the changing needs of the service
- • Ability to work as a team player.
- Ability to work across professional boundaries
- • Ability to work under their own initiative.
- • Committed to excellent patient care.
- • Excellent communication skills
- • Motivated
- • Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions
- • Prioritisation of complex workload/time management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philip Howard
- Job title
- Service Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
ext 56214
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
- Telephone
- 01642 850850, ext. 57396
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