Clinical Service Lead - Coventry, United Kingdom - Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

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Coventry, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

CWPT are excited to present an opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking children's physiotherapy team. Childrens physiotherapy in Coventry cover 0-19 and provide expert clinical care in a variety of settings.

The postholder will lead clinical specialists across Paediatric MSK, Early years, Mainstream/Special schools and support our Advanced Clinical Practitioner in tonal management.

A key focus of this role will not only be to provide the day to day leadership, but also carry a small clinical caseload.

This role will be an integrated position both within the children's leadership team and with our qualified and unqualified staff.

You will work closely with clinical services leads across OT, SLT, Physiotherapy Respiratory, AHP Neonatal service and Community Childrens Nurses to deliver high quality care to our CYP and their families.

Our Community Health and Well-being (CHWB) directorate provides all-age community services to the population of Coventry. Services to children and young people are delivered by our podiatry, dentistry, sexual health and physical health teams.

Providing services to children also involves working with the family, school, social services and potentially secondary and tertiary health providers.

Professionals working in community children's services must be knowledgeable and skilled in their own area of expertise, be continually alert to potential safeguarding concerns and be able to work collaboratively with other agencies in the best interest of the child and young person.

It is a good time to being a leader in children's community services as work begins on the children's strategy and cross agency working is being strengthened.

This lead role will have the following key areas of responsibility:
Effective leadership

Setting, maintaining and monitoring professional standards in Physiotherapy children's services

Support clinical pathway development and growth

Clinical governance for Childrens PT

Encourage innovation in clinical delivery and workforce development

For further information regarding this role, please view the attached job description and personal specification

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it.

We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect

Responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the identified services, including patient, service activity, performance, quality, finances and staffing matters.

Specialist clinical activity to be agreed with the post-holder

Clinical accountability and governance across the services

Contribute to services responses to key local and national policy drivers, programmes and initiatives for children and families;

To deliver child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.

Business development of Children's Therapy Services.

Management of staff;
Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector, Local Authority, Commissioners to enable the delivery of shared outcomes;
Be a member of the extended management & leadership team for the Community Health and Wellbeing Directorate