Clinical Team Leader Paddock Special Schools - London, United Kingdom - St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Managerial To provide strong leadership, setting direction and delivering excellent service results, acting as a role model for Team Leaders and providing them with line management in support of the day-to-day management of their services.

To sit on the schools senior leadership team board and represent a broad health perspective in decision making and planning for the school.

To work closely with the Head of Therapies, as well as other key managers in the Trust including the General Manager for Childrens Services, to ensure the delivery of key targets.

To be responsible for proposing or implementing departmental and Trust policies, guidelines or protocols to enable the delivery of safe, quality evidence-based practice.

To work with senior colleagues within Therapies and Childrens Services ensuring that robust Clinical Governance arrangements are in place to support audit, research and service quality promotion within the department.

To contribute towards the strategic plan for Therapies taking ownership of those areas relevant to Childrens SLT or that has been delegated.

This is to be undertaken in respect of the services within the remit of the post, ensuring that it is within the context of the Trusts strategic plans, Clinical Commissioning Groups initiatives and national drives such as the NHS Plans and NSFs.

To be accountable for the direct service delivery and on-going quality improvements of the Childrens SLT Service within the School/ Hospital Trust, contributing to the business cases needed To be influential and offer a high level of expertise and professional support to the development of related services and to act as an advocate for the young person in decision making and planning of care and reviews.

To manage the health team and workforce planning and development in association with the Head of Childrens Therapies, the school management team and the General Manager for Childrens Services; being proactive and flexible about how the services are delivered.

By continually analysing the services, reviewing skill mix and using forward planning to ensure that the available resources are used the most effectively.

By keeping abreast of AHPs developments locally and nationally t Education and Training To take the lead for speciality service in ensuring accurate reporting against Clinical Support care group performance criteria.

Produce annual reports for the Childrens Health Services To link as appropriate with universities providing under-graduate training for SLT which require clinical placements in this Trust To ensure that appropriate levels and types of training are offered, implemented and evaluated for SLT provision for all levels including non-qualified staff within the school ensuring that a learning culture and environment is provided.

(using an Elklan model) To ensure specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice, commit to own on-going personal and professional development through reflective practice, membership of professional body and participation in postgraduate training Communication Skills To be able to resolve conflicts or communicate often complex or contentious information relating to staff, patients, carers or service delivery sensitively and fairly. To influence, at a strategic level, senior managers within the Trust or from external organisations in relation to professional or service delivery issues utilising diplomacy, persuasiveness and negotiating skills. To be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate documentation / data collection standards within the team, ensuring these and other written protocols are implemented and regularly reviewed, ensuring that they are current and appropriate to the service frameworks. To represent healthcare within the school decision making at management board and governing body level as required.

Research and Development To work with senior colleagues across the Trust ensuring that robust Clinical Governance arrangements are in place to support, develop and promote audit, research and service quality within SLT as well as supporting a research framework within the department.

To be responsible for Clinical Governance arrangements within the Childrens SLT teams, ensuring appropriate feedback mechanism To pro-actively promote a culture of learning, development and clinical excellence within Therapy services, linking this to the Trust objectives and seeking collaboration with academic institutions as appropriate.

Management of Resources To be responsible for the staff within the Childrens SLT Service including recruitment, selection, induction, monitoring, sickness, disciplinary and grievance procedures as necessary.

To take responsibility for the appraisal of senior members of the Childrens SLT Service ensuring that each has a personal development plan and appropriate objectives Ensure that a clear, documented structure exists within the Childrens SLT Service to cascade the above a