Band 7 Specialist Therapist/Team Lead
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Job summary
Are you Interested in a career In Therapy Leadership?
If so we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to be join our friendly proactive Band 7 Team Leads team, The teams work across Acute Medicine, Admission avoidance at Heartlands Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 looking for their next step in their career or an existing Band 7 looking for a new challenge. We are looking for a creative and dynamic team leader who can jointly lead a team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Support Workers, supporting and maximizing interdisciplinary working to enable patients to achieve their therapy goals and to be discharged home in a timely manner from our newly enhanced SDEC/MAU area.
Applicants should be Band 6 or above. It is essential you have expert clinical skills, leadership qualities, have good communication and interpersonal skills. You must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and have excellent organisational and time management skills, teaching skills and an enthusiasm for service development.
You will be required to participate in our 7 day working service.
We are committed to your development with training opportunities offered to support you to thrive in this role.
If you would like to discuss this post further please contact: Craig Colton Clinical Team Lead email craig.colton@uhb.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
The candidate must be a qualified HCPC registered Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with recent acute experience.
Demonstration of significant clinical experience with good knowledge in an Acute hospital setting, ideally in a fast paced area, enabling the candidate to manage a complex caseload of patients as well as significant experience in managing and leading others.
The candidate must have a good understanding and experience of both formal and informal training techniques, with the enthusiasm to empower others with their development. The post holder will have an understanding of all the different job roles and their scope of practise to provide tailored development for qualified OT's, PT's and TSW's.
They must have experience of participating in service development and a practical knowledge of audit and data collection. They will also have experience of managing junior staff and deputising for the team lead.
Their excellent communication skills with be essential to support and lead the team, with the ability to plan and manage staff rotas, sickness, provide supervision and appraisals and deputise for the CTL in meetings when required.
In return you will gain excellent clinical and leadership experience. You will also develop organisational skills and service development experience.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Details
Date posted
18 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
304-48132YS
Job locations
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
Employer's website
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