Complimentary Therapies Lead - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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:

The post holder will develop, roll out and deliver a complimentary therapies service to our staff across the NCA organisation.

With responsibility for assessing, planning, organising, and providing a combination of complementary therapies for example Reiki, Reflexology etc, the post holder will create a caring and safe environment, addressing the comfort needs of our staff, which results in a positive impact on our staff wellbeing.

The post holder will be responsible for recruiting and training volunteers to build a volunteer-led Complementary Therapy service and develop plans for roll out of services to include patients.

Main duties of the job:

The post holder will be responsible for:

Establishing a volunteer-led Complementary Therapy service across the whole NCA, that staff can access
Provide training and development to the volunteers to ensure that service users receive quality service
Developing and growing the number of one to one and group complimentary therapies delivered across the NCA
Overseeing the development and training of volunteer complementary therapists
Implementing a system of review to ensure the volunteers are providing good experience to users
Maintaining appropriate records of individuals receiving therapies
Manage and deliver the provision of complementary therapies to NCA staff
Develop plans to advertise and promote the service across the NCA to optimise this opportunity and ensure sufficient uptake so that a review of effectiveness can take place
Once the service is up and running, develop plans to expand the provision for patients
To audit, evaluate and/or research the complementary therapy service to assess its effectiveness and any correlations with reductions in staff absences
Prepare evidenced based reports to support the continuation and expansion of the service
To maintain professional development to facilitate the provision of evidencebased practise
Take responsibility for ensuring the service has sufficient equipment and supplies to provide the service
To carry out any other reasonable duties as designated by the Head of Volunteering

Working for our organisation:

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

Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

We care passionately about the experience our staff, patients, service users and their families receive day in, day out.

We continue to find ways to drive forward improvements in the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local communities.

We are pioneering in our thinking and approach, and remain at the forefront of research and innovation. We're also proud to invest big in learning and development, use world-class digital technology and
collaborate closely with universities and industry.

This is the place where success is achievable and every day offers the challenges, empowerment, freedom and support necessary to break new ground and improve life outcomes.

If you want to play a part in creating a healthier community for Greater Manchester, take your place with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

Level 4 diploma in complimentary therapies
Literacy level 2 or equivalent
Numeracy level 2 or equivalent
Degree or significant equivalent work experience
Teaching qualification eg diploma in lifelong learning

Desirable criteria:

Leadership and management qualification
Project management qualification

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Essential criteria:

Practical experience delivering complimentary therapies in a salon or clinical setting
Experience of leading and managing a team
Experience of delivering teaching to others
Organisation skills
Business cases
Team working skills
Office skills report writing etc
Data collection and analysis
Able to work between NCA sites

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