Team Leader - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
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Salford, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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This role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a ground-breaking redesign of services aimed at supporting the rehabilitation of patients through a range of interventions.

This multi-faceted role will work with wards and therapy staff to implement changes to practice, which will overhaul services ensuring a focus on reablement and a move away from the more traditional bed-based care plans.


To take a lead role in the assessment and treatment of inpatients, who may have complex and /or chronic presentation.

To determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.


To take a lead role in preventing deconditioning with patients who may have complex and /or chronic presentation, using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.

To champion Strength Based Approach for patients.


To plan, coordinate and evaluate the Exercise and Independence provision inpatients on a day-to-day basis, and to cover for any other area with this specific caseload as necessary.

Communications and Relationships


To communicate effectively with patients, carers and other members of the MDT to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition.

Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, non-verbal skills and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.

Barriers to effective communication will regularly be evident e.g. sensory loss, altered perception, pain, fear, psychosocial problems, and behavioural problems.

  • To assess capacity and gain valid informed consent whenever possible.
  • To have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
  • To provide/deliver spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of rehabilitation and strength based approach and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
  • To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and trust requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to all appropriate Health and Social Care Professionals in the form of letters and reports.
  • To support more junior staff in delivering appropriate intervention / input to their designated patient caseload.
  • To work collaboratively across agencies and organisational boundaries (North West region) and ensure delivery of an integrated service through effective communication.
  • To implement policy and contribute to policy changes in own clinical area.
  • To deputise for the Operational Manager in terms of operational issues.
  • To carry team bleep and respond to frequent interruptions throughout the day.
Analytical and Judgmental Skills

To collect data and statistics, as required.

  • To take a lead role in the analysis of data and report writing.
Planning and Organisational Skills

  • To be responsible for a designated area of work, as agreed with the Lead/Manager, and to plan and organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time, ensuring twoway communication with Operational Management at all times.
  • To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the section as a whole.
  • To represent the Exercise and Independence Facilitators at patient and/or service development meetings for work area; this can be complex and demanding in nature.
  • To facilitate and take part in MDT working and meetings to enable complex rehabilitation and treatment planning.
  • To coordinate MDT activities i.e. rehab groups.
  • To attend staff meetings and participate in discussions concerning the running of the service.
Responsibility for Patient Care


To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.


  • To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
  • To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and those of more junior staff.
  • To undertake the comprehensive holistic assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills.
  • To formulate a highly specialised individualised management and / or treatment plan using clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of treatment / exercise skills and options in order to formulate a specialised programme of care, including psychosocial analysis where appropriate.
  • To have highly developed dexterity, coordination and palpatory senses for clinical assessment and physical treatment of patients.
  • To provide advice on the management of patients to any Health or Social Care Professional working within other se
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