Head of Physiotherapy

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To provide a direct clinical service and clinical cover for physiotherapy staff as appropriate.

Communication

To represent the physiotherapy services corporately within the organisation and with local partners to provide and disseminate information appropriately, ensuring effective communication structures for the physiotherapy services.

To have a high professional profile within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) and other organisations that will enable national and local promotion and dissemination of knowledge and expertise on behalf of the Trust.

To pursue a professional development plan that will support this and extend professional knowledge.

Documentation

To oversee and maintain up-to-date written and electronic records and activity data, in accordance with professional and Trust standards.

Leadership, Supervision & Appraisal

To provide a strong professional lead to improve and develop physiotherapy and clinical exercise services in line with service and client needs, corporate objectives and legislative requirements.

To provide professional supervision for senior physiotherapy staff and clinical exercise lead as per trust supervision.

To promote the professional contribution of the physiotherapists, to offer guidance and support and to appraise their performance in conjunction with their managers.

To line manage corporate physiotherapy staff and clinical exercise team.

To use meetings with the Professional Head of OT to review performance and set common objectives.

Training Staff & Students to ensure physiotherapy students have placements in the Trust and to ensure quality standards for these.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HPC registered Physiotherapist Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy MSc/MA or MPhiI or equivalent

Desirable

• Relevant management qualification
• Experience of working collaboratively with users of mental health services
• Experience of working collaboratively with the Education Consortia
• Experience of managing a range of staff from various professional backgrounds

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience working as a physiotherapist, Including senior clinical experience and experience of line management
• Experience of managing or facilitating change, developing and nurturing physiotherapy and clinical exercise skills.
• Experience of developing new physiotherapy services and capturing data to demonstrate the need, vale and impact of physiotherapy services.
• Experience of working collaboratively with the CSP and exercise related groups. oExperience of training and supervising students

Desirable

• Experience of inner city, multicultural environments
• Experience of working with service users with complex or challenging behaviours.
• Experience of working with mental health service users in other contexts.

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

• Ability to develop and implement appropriate service strategies Commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of service users and their carers
• Ability and skill to work collaboratively with senior multi-disciplinary staff
• Ability to develop, deliver and evaluate actions plans linked to strategies
• Skill and ability to guide and support staff in reflective practice through supervision
• oSkills to lead staff and manage and facilitate change effectively oAbility to manage financial resources effectively oNegotiation, diplomacy and arbitration skill

Desirable

• An understanding of issues relating to clinical exercise and physical activity within health services
• An understanding of pre-and post-registration training issues for physiotherapists

Other

Essential

• Membership of relevant professional specialist interest group
• Willingness to develop and advance own learning

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health problems/challenge

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

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 8AZ

Employer's website

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