Principle Service Lead - Bolton, United Kingdom - Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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Bolton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To undertake a service leadership role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering, developing and evaluating the services.

To ensure effective, efficient delivery of services.
To provide a Clinical Lead role providing direction and professional advice on all matters relating to Adult In-Patient Therapy Services within Bolton FT Foundation Trust.
To performance manage the service and take appropriate effective action when necessary, liaising with the Service Manager and producing regular performance reports, ensuring early escalation of any issues.
To be responsible for Clinical Governance meetings and aspects of the service including managing departmental research and audit activities timely and effectively.
To maintain and develop communication networks with key players within partner agencies including Bolton FT NHS Foundation Trust, Social Services, GP's, community and voluntary services/agencies to develop policy and procedure for multiprofessional practice for people.
To undertake a balance of clinical and managerial roles as service needs demand.

Our Values

Vision

We have a plan that will deliver excellent health and care for future generations, working with partners to ensure our services are sustainable.

We make decisions that are best for long term health and social care outcomes for our communities

Openness

We communicate clearly to our patients, families and our staff with transparency and honesty

We encourage feedback from everyone to help drive innovation and Improvements

Integrity

We demonstrate fairness, respect and empathy in our interactions with people

We take responsibility for our actions, speaking out and learning from our mistakes

Compassion

We take a person-centred approach in all our interactions with patients, families and our staff

We provide compassionate care and demonstrate understanding to everyone

Excellence

We put quality and safety at the heart of all our services and processes

We continuously improve our standards of healthcare with the patient in mind

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical

To lead a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Instructors, Therapy assistants and Administrative Professionals to provide a Service for people who require therapy in hospital
To provide a highly specialist therapeutic service to people with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological needs within hospital and community settings guided by RCOT, CSP, RCN, GMC policies, standards and regulations.
To manage a caseload, and work as an autonomous practitioner using evidence based/people centred principals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To provide expert clinical guidance to the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and other professionals within Bolton FT NHS Foundation Trust and beyond with regards to complex therapeutic intervention, discharge planning and case management. To liaise with after, inform and train staff, whilst working in partnership with patients, relatives/carers, health and social services staff and members of voluntary organisations and the community to ensure delivery of a high quality service.
Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients.
Monitor and evaluate the appropriateness of team referrals, ensuring appropriate care, discharge and communication is provided.
As an autonomous practitioner to independently prioritise, organise and manage own specialist caseload. To demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues and generating appropriate strategies for case management across a wide range of fields.
Undertake a comprehensive, highly specialist assessment of patients, including those with diverse or highly complex presentations; use advance clinical reasoning and problem solving skills. Collect evidence from both formal and informal assessment using highly specialist knowledge and expertise.
Represent the service and/or individual patients at multidisciplinary team meetings, to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service. This will include discussion of patient care, patient progress and involvement in discharge planning.
Provide professional and clinical advice to other health care professionals and organisations including Consultant's, GP's and nurse practitioners.

Management

To undertake a service leadership role in planning, coordinating, delivering, developing and evaluating the District Therapy Service.
To ensure effective, efficient delivery of District Therapy Services.
To provide a Clinical Lead role providing direction and professional advice on all matters relating to District Therapy Services within Bolton FT Foundation Trust.
To performance manage the service and take appropriate effective action when necessary, liaising with the Neighbourhood and Specialist Services Lead and producing regular performance reports, ensuring early escalation of any issue