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Job overview

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist looking to advance your career, and develop your operational management and leadership skills?

We’re looking for a Lead Therapist to join our Respiratory Medicine Team of occupational therapists, physiotherapist and therapy support workers. Based at the Northern General Hospital, the team provide urgent, acute, and on-going care to patients with various respiratory conditions. The service is delivered on inpatient respiratory wards, the Sheffield Adult Fibrosis Centre, and the Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy service.

Day-to-day you will provide operational management and leadership for the teams inpatient and outpatient services. You will support the development of divisional education programmes, and the provision of undergraduate occupational therapy and physiotherapy student capacity and training

Main duties of the job

A key part of your role is to support staff health and wellbeing, education, and professional development. We are looking for someone with excellent communication, people and organisational skills who is able to deliver and sustain a positive, supportive team culture. 

As well as a passion for supporting and developing people and services, the post requires a high level of specialist or senior-level post-registration experience working as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist within an acute hospital setting. 

While this role is predominantly a leadership one, part of the role will be to carry a small clinical caseload. Whilst clinical experience within respiratory care is beneficial, we can offer training within this field to the successful candidate. For this post there will be no requirement to participate in weekend or on-call services at this time.

In return, we can offer you plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in the role, including:

·         Development of supervision and mentorship skills

·         Opportunities to deliver and receive teaching & training

·         Participation in and/or leading quality improvement initiatives

·         Involvement in clinical governance/assurance/management forums within the team, service and division

·         Development of operational, service delivery and line management knowledge and skills, including HR processes

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

 The role offers the opportunity for either a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development within the field of operational management and leadership.

There will be opportunities for:

• Supervision and mentorship of all grades of Therapy staff
• A variety of teaching/training opportunities within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Participation in and/or leading quality improvement initiatives within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Development of operational, service delivery and line management knowledge and skills including HR processes
• Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and across the wider trust.
• Support by accessing the Trust wide offers such as the Managing for Excellence network and the newly launched LEAD programme both of which are aimed at supporting and developing operational managers and leaders