Team Lead Community Physiotherapy and Falls Service - Rochdale, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Rochdale, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and forward-thinking physiotherapist to lead our community physiotherapy and falls service across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.

As team lead you will be responsible for service development and quality improvement in delivering community based rehabilitation.

You will lead an established team of community therapists who deliver falls prevention, amputee rehabilitation and general community rehabilitation to the local population from neighbourhood multi-disciplinary teams.

Effective communication across primary and secondary care is key, as well as advanced skills in providing rehabilitation with complex patients.

Main duties of the job:

You will work as an autonomous practitioner assessing patients' needs and provide therapy using evidenced based clinical skills. You will also be responsible for caseload management, handover of care and service developments providing specialist input when necessary.

Report outcomes for service development and national audits on a continual basis.

Provide training to contribute to ongoing development of a high quality, clinically effective service enabling staff to work within professional and governance frameworks.

Working for our organisation:

Rochdale Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place destined to be different. Rochdale puts co-operation and co-design at the forefront of its health and social care. This is the place with community based integrated care at its heart.

Rochdale Infirmary, and the adult and children's community services across Heywood Middleton and Rochdale, consists of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors.

A place leading the way in life-enhancing, integrated care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

Degree or equivalent in physiotherapy
HCPC registered
Evidence of CPD including personal development portfolio relevant to specialism
Educated to masters module level or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning / experience

Desirable criteria:

Mentoring preregistration students
Advanced level qualification
To hold or be willing to undertake accredited leadership qualification

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Experience in clinical specialism
Experience of working in community
Evidence of commitment to sustained professional development including leadership

Desirable criteria:

Experience as a leader / senior role
Experience of integrated working

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