Clinical Lead Therapist - Canterbury, United Kingdom - East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

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Canterbury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our expanding Vascular Service is looking for a dynamic, forward thinking therapist to drive forward this developing service covering both In
- and Out patient care. Now covering all of East Kent and Medway for Inpatient Vascular Services this busy team will be seeing these patients through their journey from preoperative assessment to out patient follow up.

The Clinical Lead will ensure the highest standards of therapy input to this client group and oversee teaching, pathways, research opportunities as well as carry out high quality hands on assessment and treatment to this complex client group.

Provide clear leadership to the vascular team both clinically and non clinically.

Represent the Therapy team at any operational vascular meetings and be involved in service development, overseeing quality, risk and governance as well as promoting research opportunities.

Provide highly skilled specialist support and guidance to the vascular team, advising and helping with complex patients as required.

Oversee a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and support workers working across in-patients and out-patients ensuring optimal standards of care are provided to vascular patients

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'.

Everything we do is guided by our values:
'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day.

We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.