- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Health Care Professional Council registration
- Evidence of professional development and regular study since qualification
- Practice/clinical Educator
- Management or supervision qualification
- Member of CSP
- Participation in service development
- Skilled practitioner who can act as a role model in both clinical and non-clinical setting
- Member of local/national special interest group
- Relevant validated clinical courses/MSc modules
- Significant experience as Band 6 practitioner
- Experience in wide range of clinical areas, and demonstrates ability to work as specialist in clinical area
- Experience in clinical and non-clinical supervision of staff members
- Evidence of supervision of students
- Previous participation in audit
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its application
- Evidence of IT skills
- Experience in research
- Experience in policy development and implementation
- Experience of implementing change within a team/service
- Able to teach within speciality to a wide variety of staff
- Ability to demonstrate negotiating and influencing skills
- Able to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills with a small team
- Evidence of having developed team working skills and implemented teamwork practices
- Demonstrate influencing skills to challenge traditional methods and win support for new ideas
- Ability to work within a team and develop others
- Evidence of excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to demonstrate team leadership skills to support and work flexibly within the team and wider department
- Able and willing to use initiative
- Able to cope with distressing or emotional circumstances
- Evidence of commitment to improving standards of patient care through effective and efficient therapy intervention
- Knowledge of current clinical development, evidence based practices and professional issues affecting Therapy Evidence of willingness to undertake further education/training as required
- Evidence of organisational and time management skills
- Able to cope with some unpredictable work patterns and changing circumstances
- Ability to travel between Trust sites efficiently
- Ability to undertake physical demands of the post especially therapeutic manual handling
Clinical Team Lead - Dudley, United Kingdom - The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist who has an interest in leadership and management to join our Surgery team as an operational Team Lead.
The post holder will work alongside the existing Clinical Team Lead to ensure efficient and effective service delivery for the Therapy provision on the Respiratory/Surgery and Vascular wards and the Intensive Care and High Dependency unit.
For this role, you will need to demonstrate advanced planning, organisation, and communication skills, managing the team on a daily basis. The post holder will also have the opportunity to support the team clinically when required.
It is expected that the successful candidate will contribute to 7-day services.
Main duties
The post holder will organise and oversee the running of the Surgery team, ensuring appropriate skill mix and adequate staffing to meet the clinical demand.
The role will be accountable for the production of the rosters, supervision, appraisals, job plans, and staff support and development.
The role will be responsible for team and department service improvements, recruitment, development of procedures and audit.
Introduction to the Therapy Department at The Dudley Group on Vimeo
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be predominantly clinical to provide high standards of therapeutic assessment and treatment working as an autonomous practitioner on all surgical wards.
The post holder will support the immediate therapy team on surgery and will oversee the quality of the clinical caseload across the team, assisting the partner Clinical Team Lead to provide the optimal staffing, and skill mix to match capacity and demand, whilst working closely with therapy staff and the MDT to provide the best patient care and experience.
This post will be responsible for providing staff development and training programmes. The post holder will complete supervision, appraisals, staff competencies and assist with students, induction and training.
The post holder will also deputise for the partner Clinical Team Lead during absence to ensure efficient day to day running of the team.
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust recognises the values and transferable skills that the Armed Forces community bring and recognise their compatibility with NHS roles.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
Person SpecificationQualifications & Education
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Knowledge and Training
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Experience
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Communication & Relationship Skills
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Analytical & Judgement Skills
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Planning & Organisational Skills
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Physical Skills
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