Acute Medical Rehab Physiotherapy Team Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Managing patient flow in the team/ensuring minimal delays to patient care

Operational Supervision and appraisal of Band 6 staff in team, and general management of a team of staff, bands 3 to 6.

Sickness absence management.

Early stages of disciplinary and capability with support of HR and Deputy Therapy Managers.

Health and Safety of team/therapy environments.

Ensuring clinical supervision is carried out within the team.

Study leave requests co-ordination and first level authorisation.

Recruitment: responsibility for job descriptions, ads, interviewing and informing Therapy Manager of details of appointments.

Appropriate response and feedback to incidents

Professional leadership within field of expertise.

Maintain own competency to practice through CPD activities and maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.

To take part in annual 360 appraisals.

To facilitate student placements within the department and provide support to clinical educators within the team.

Clinical Activities

Achieve clinical competencies in line with requirements of the specialism

Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients and support staff to do likewise.

Undertake specialist assessment of patients with complex presentation as an autonomous practitioner.

Use advanced clinical reasoning skills and expertise to form accurate diagnosis.

Formulate and deliver individual therapy treatment plans using a range of assessment and treatment skills.

Manage clinical risk within patient caseload.

Supporting students / work experience students.

Strategic Development, Planning and Organising

Work within Trust, HCPC and clinical guidelines, applying working knowledge of national and local standards

Monitoring team activity/performance, including patient activity, mandatory training attendance, PDRS etc

Act in nominated lead capacity, representing Team Leads from other services and cascading information as required.

Attendance at relevant service wide meetings eg SMH Board, Stroke Governance Group, SDEC Tackling Delays group etc

Administrative

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical case notes.

Responsible for E-rostering, annual leave planning and recording of sickness absence within the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registered
• Evidence of further formal study e.g. Postgraduate qualifications, (Postgraduate certificate/Diploma, Masters modules, or equivalent management qualification

Desirable

• Membership of relevant professional body
• Membership of relevant specific interest groups

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Highly developed clinical skills in chosen speciality
• Comprehensive Acute Medical, Surgical and Respiratory experience
• Ability to demonstrate highly developed leadership skills
• Proven experience of managing a service or change process
• Able to work and lead under externally applied pressures e.g. deadlines, competing demands and priorities
• Highly developed skills in managing staff, including managing challenging behaviours, emotive situations, (e.g. Attendance management, grief, illness, etc.)
• Highly developed communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate contentious or complex information effectively, including at times when there are barriers to communication e.g. When negotiating changes to working practices, managing patient/service delivery complaints, or during complex Human Resource situations e.g. Disciplinary/capability procedures
• Experience of managing the risks associated with unsupervised/lone working
• Comprehensive experience as a clinical educator of undergraduate students

Desirable

• Multi - professional working and working with different organisations
• Experience in budget management and business planning
• Experience of writing medico-legal reports

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Address

Royal Cornwall Hospital

Truro

TR1 3LJ

Employer's website

https://www.royalcornwall.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)