Job summary
WCS Expert Practitioner/Service Lead, Wheelchair Services
The Community Services Business Unit in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust delivers a wide range of health services to meet the needs of local people. As part of the continued service improvement programme, we have recently created the capacity to offer enhanced support to our Wheelchair Service across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
As a result, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Wheelchair Therapy (Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist) leader to manage this clinical service at a pivotal time in the implementation of key operational and strategic developments and to evaluate initiatives to delivery continuous improvements.
Main duties of the job
You will have operational management knowledge, experience of leading teams/services, a track record of managing projects through to successful completion and will recently have been involved in leading complex change.
Your excellent communication and teamworking skills will enable you and our team to embrace quality improvement as a continuum in order to enhance the patient and staff experience and ensure maximum value in all they do.
This role will appeal to skilled and innovative staff who are committed to supporting the delivery of high-quality services. As a successful candidate, you will have some experience of project management and quality improvement and their supporting tools. Ideally you will have some skill in analysis and interpretation of data and information. order to support needs assessment, priority setting, business planning, monitoring, audit and evaluation.
Good organisational and time management skills are essential, along with excellent interpersonal skills and positive teamworking encouraging a culture of shared responsibility and openness to change to continue to generate and implement service improvements.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure effective leadership, management and co-ordination in Wheelchair Services to promote safety and independence in the management of disability and long-term health conditions to enable people to live fulfilling, safe and independent lives.
- To act as an expert clinical practitioner providing a point of reference at local and national level.
- As Service Leader, ensure good quality support and supervision is provided for qualified and unqualified staff.
- To contribute to planning, development and implementation of quality improvement initiatives in Wheelchair Services.
- To take a leading role in research, audit and clinical governance.
- To support the achievement of objectives and key performance indicators.
- To plan for future growth and changes in working practices and to project manage the implementation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure effective leadership, management and co-ordination in Wheelchair Services to promote safety and independence in the management of disability and long-term health conditions to enable people to live fulfilling, safe and independent lives.
- To act as an expert clinical practitioner providing a point of reference at local and national level.
- As Service Leader, ensure good quality support and supervision is provided for qualified and unqualified staff.
- To contribute to planning, development and implementation of quality improvement initiatives in Wheelchair Services.
- To take a leading role in research, audit and clinical governance.
- To support the achievement of objectives and key performance indicators.
- To plan for future growth and changes in working practices and to project manage the implementation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Honors degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy or equivalent.
- Eligibility for membership of professional body: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) or Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT).
- Registered AHP with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area
Desirable
- Practice placement qualification.
- Leadership and management training.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Honors degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy or equivalent.
- Eligibility for membership of professional body: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) or Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT).
- Registered AHP with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area
Desirable
- Practice placement qualification.
- Leadership and management training.
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).
