Job summary
Are you an experienced Physiotherapist looking for a new challenge? Do you have strong leadership skills with broad and extensive acute clinical knowledge in Physiotherapy? If so, we have a great opportunity for you on the QEHB site at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB)
We are recruiting to a Clinical Lead for Physiotherapy Inpatients on the QE site at UHB. The post involves the day to day management, monitoring and provision of the inpatient Physiotherapy service across all specialities at QE hospital. The post holder will work closely with the professional leads for Physiotherapy and Outpatient Clinical Lead on the QE site to help to develop and lead the Physiotherapy service within the clinical pathways at UHB. You will hold your own complex small clinical caseload whilst managing, clinically supervising and developing various specialist teams of Physiotherapists and assistants. You will support service quality improvement initiatives ensuring patient outcomes are optimised. You will contribute to Physiotherapy, Therapy Services and Trust wide policies, strategies, guidelines, standards and protocols.
Interviews will be face to face and start the week beginning the 9th February.
For further information please contact Claire Pearson-- Therapy Lead professional Lead for Physiotherapy in-patients 0121 3713414 Claire. Pearson@uhb.nhs.uk and/or Mark Raven -- Therapy Lead for Physiotherapy out-patients 0121 3713803 Mark.Raven@uhb.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
This post is ideal for a Physiotherapist wishing to use and develop their clinical, leadership and service development skills. The post holder must be an experienced, proactive and innovative Physiotherapist with a strong ability to work independently and make decisions on behalf of the Physiotherapy team. We are a large and friendly Physiotherapy service of over 170 staff including assistants, providing Physiotherapy across all specialities of the site. The successful applicant will work as integral members of the therapies and wider team, building working relationships with other multi-professionals across UHB. You will develop and take part in clinical audit, research, guidelines development and other service initiatives. There is a requirement to be part of our on-call service .
You will need to have excellent communication and leadership skills, adhere to the Trust Behavioural Framework, build positive relationships and be adaptable and confident to work autonomously and with other members of staff within a supportive team. We expect you to be enthusiastic, motivated, flexible able to evidence continuing professional development and keen to develop yourself and others. Significant experience in a wide variety of acute physiotherapy specialities is essential.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Appropriate Physiotherapy or professional qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc or MSc. E
- *Registration with Health Care Professions Council E
- *CSP or equivalent professional registration E
- *Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management / Leadership competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio E
- *Significant managerial and clinical leadership skills at post graduate development/ attendance on recognised leadership development programme (E)
- *Working at "M" level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD/Post registration MSc E
- *Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in own specialist area of physiotherapy E
Desirable
- *Attended student educator course
Experience
Essential
- *Significant post registration experience of which considerable experience has been in this specialty in an acute NHS organisation E
- *Experience of staff management including supervision and of development and performance management of staff. E
- *Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. E
- *Knowledge and experience of data capture and evaluation, and the application of Information resources to both clinical practice and service development (E)
- *Advanced knowledge and skills in the specialist assessment and treatment of a wide range of complex acute and chronic clinical presentations relating to cardiothoracic patients. E
- *Excellent knowledge of anatomy and physiology E
- *Good understanding of IT systems and its application to clinical practice. E
- *Able to demonstrate the ability to select and apply a wide range of treatment options for a range of clinical presentations E
- *Awareness of current evidence in own are aof specialism and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills E
- *Good understanding of IT and its application. E
- *Significant experience in the development and performance management of physiotherapists and students E
- *Understand the strategic direction of the Trust and the role that Physiotherapy has within that (E)
- *Advanced awareness of current professional and legal issues e.g. Confidentiality, consent, equal opportunities (E)
- *Expert practice of clinical audit or research (E)
- *Expert practice with regard to coordinating planning and undertaking of Student Training Programme (E)
- *Understanding of NHS funding and budget management (E)
- *Good knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management. (E)
- *Critical incident and complaint management (E)
Desirable
- *Good knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management D
- *Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession D
- *Good understanding of principles of data and statistics and experience of their use in evaluation of service delivery D
- *Knowledge and understanding of the research process. D
- *Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations D
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Strong sense of professional integrity, and compliance with Trust vision and values. E
- *Ability to be self-motivated and to motivate team. E
- *Excellent interpersonal and communication skills E
- *Reliable, good attendance record. E
- *Physically fit and resilient, able to meet the physical and emotional demands of the post. E
- *Able and willing to work flexibly in order to meet service priorities. E
- *Excellent time management and E organisational skills and able to meet deadlines and targets E
- *Excellent problem solving skills E
- *Ability to work weekends E
- *Ability to work weekends as part of a 7 day working pattern (when appropriate service delivery allows and commences
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Appropriate Physiotherapy or professional qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc or MSc. E
- *Registration with Health Care Professions Council E
- *CSP or equivalent professional registration E
- *Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management / Leadership competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio E
- *Significant managerial and clinical leadership skills at post graduate development/ attendance on recognised leadership development programme (E)
- *Working at "M" level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD/Post registration MSc E
- *Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in own specialist area of physiotherapy E
Desirable
- *Attended student educator course
Experience
Essential
- *Significant post registration experience of which considerable experience has been in this specialty in an acute NHS organisation E
- *Experience of staff management including supervision and of development and performance management of staff. E
- *Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. E
- *Knowledge and experience of data capture and evaluation, and the application of Information resources to both clinical practice and service development (E)
- *Advanced knowledge and skills in the specialist assessment and treatment of a wide range of complex acute and chronic clinical presentations relating to cardiothoracic patients. E
- *Excellent knowledge of anatomy and physiology E
- *Good understanding of IT systems and its application to clinical practice. E
- *Able to demonstrate the ability to select and apply a wide range of treatment options for a range of clinical presentations E
- *Awareness of current evidence in own are aof specialism and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills E
- *Good understanding of IT and its application. E
- *Significant experience in the development and performance management of physiotherapists and students E
- *Understand the strategic direction of the Trust and the role that Physiotherapy has within that (E)
- *Advanced awareness of current professional and legal issues e.g. Confidentiality, consent, equal opportunities (E)
- *Expert practice of clinical audit or research (E)
- *Expert practice with regard to coordinating planning and undertaking of Student Training Programme (E)
- *Understanding of NHS funding and budget management (E)
- *Good knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management. (E)
- *Critical incident and complaint management (E)
Desirable
- *Good knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management D
- *Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession D
- *Good understanding of principles of data and statistics and experience of their use in evaluation of service delivery D
- *Knowledge and understanding of the research process. D
- *Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations D
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Strong sense of professional integrity, and compliance with Trust vision and values. E
- *Ability to be self-motivated and to motivate team. E
- *Excellent interpersonal and communication skills E
- *Reliable, good attendance record. E
- *Physically fit and resilient, able to meet the physical and emotional demands of the post. E
- *Able and willing to work flexibly in order to meet service priorities. E
- *Excellent time management and E organisational skills and able to meet deadlines and targets E
- *Excellent problem solving skills E
- *Ability to work weekends E
- *Ability to work weekends as part of a 7 day working pattern (when appropriate service delivery allows and commences
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
