Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2406TLP-FDTT
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
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Team Lead Physiotherapist - Front Door Therapy Team
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
Job Title: Team Lead Physiotherapist - Front Door Therapy Team
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 7
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
We are recruiting for a Team Lead Physiotherapist - Front Door Therapy Team 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.
Working within a busy ED environment and SDEC and short stay wards, assessing, managing and treating patients with a board range of conditions, including falls, delirium, neurological and respiratory conditions.
To be on call competent and participate in the emergency on call rota.
Supervising team members clinically and in 1:1 supervision sessions.
Management of students on placement.
Department and team/service development.
Main duties of the job
Delivering high quality care, assessment and treatment of patients in ED, SDEC and acute assessment units/short stay wards.
Leading a team, in partnership with the Team Lead Occupational Therapist.
Active participation in the emergency on call rota.
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
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.
With strong leadership the day to day experience for our teams is a great one, staff are valued, excellent quality care is provided and the passion for continuous improvement is high.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; we also offer an excellent benefits package which includes onsite childcare facilities, various salary sacrifice schemes and a generous annual leave entitlement.
We are recruiting for a Team Lead Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Emergency and Acute Medicine to co-lead our Front Door Therapy Team. The candidate should share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful post holder will be expected to work as part of an integrated therapy team, consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants in order to provide excellent therapy care to patients and their families.
As a Team Lead Physiotherapist you will ensure that you provide timely assessments and interventions to a variety of patient’s including falls, neurological and respiratory conditions.
You will be supported team members wherever necessary.
You will also be expected to delegate appropriate tasks to less experienced physiotherapists and therapy assistants, provide support to the rest of the team where necessary and assist the development of the service.
The role will provide you with experience of working in a challenging and fast-paced specialist ward environment and the opportunity to develop skills within this area
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Profesional Field
- Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD to Masters Level
- Membership of special interest groups
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of the challenges of group dynamics in patient groups
- Communicating with patients and a wide range of health care professionals
- Profficient in the use of Microsoft IT packages.
- Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments
- Identification, implementation and reporting of processes for increased efficiency
- Provides motivational and negotiating skills as required
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience including broad range of clinical experience
- Experience of Clinical Education of Students within area of expertise.
- Awareness of principles of adult protection and safeguarding
- Management and Leadership training or experience
- Experience in health, acute hospital or social care setting
- Experience using Microsoft office suite including PowerPoint and excel
- 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
- Able to communicate with a wide range of professionals and the public
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becki Austin
- Job title
- Professional Lead for Physiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634825247
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