Job summary
The Rehabilitation at Home (RAH) Team supports adult patients following fracture neck of femur surgery from the Orthopaedic wards at Aintree Hospital. They aim to maximise the potential and capability of patients to achieve independence through intensive, short term therapy interventions, delivered in the home.
The service provides Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Therapy Assistant input in the home and loans equipment to patients for short term use.
RAH team covers the Liverpool city boundary, South Sefton and Knowsley working in close collaboration with Orthopaedic wards at Aintree Hospital as well as other services and stakeholders.
The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the department and the provision of the leadership and management to the team.
The post holder will ensure the delivery of high quality, effective, efficient, co-ordinated and responsive care to the patients / clients. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishmentof systems and processes.
The post holder will collaborate with the service lead to support service development and modernisation in line with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust's objectives.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership, management, communication to and for the clinical team.
Ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients.
Ensure the delivery of quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishmentof systems and processes in working in collaboration with other services/stakeholders.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring that the team works proactively providing a responsive and a high-quality service to its clients.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical expertise and knowledge to the team, demonstrating evidence based clinical decision making when managing complex situations.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Monitor clinical activity and performance of the team ensuring that it reflects the core objectives.
Work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development. Provide reports and data that supports the monitoring of team's performance.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Undertake personal development plans, supervisions, ensure team's compliance with mandatory training and mentor developing staff.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients in a variety of forums, professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the clinical team.
Ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.
Ensure the delivery of quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishmentof systems and processes in working in collaboration with other services/stakeholders.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring that the team works proactively providing a responsive and a high-quality service to its clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical expertise and knowledge to the team, demonstrating evidence based clinical decision making when managing complex situations.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Monitor clinical activity and performance of the team ensuring that it reflects the core objectives of the service.
Work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development. Provide reports and data that supports the monitoring of teams performance.
Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Undertake personal development plans (PDP), supervisions, ensure teams compliance with mandatory training and mentor developing staff within the clinical environment. Initiate training and development of team members.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.Deliver holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs and consider a range of interventions options with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students. Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
* The post holder shall as necessarily provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the clinical team.
Ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.
Ensure the delivery of quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishmentof systems and processes in working in collaboration with other services/stakeholders.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring that the team works proactively providing a responsive and a high-quality service to its clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical expertise and knowledge to the team, demonstrating evidence based clinical decision making when managing complex situations.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Monitor clinical activity and performance of the team ensuring that it reflects the core objectives of the service.
Work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development. Provide reports and data that supports the monitoring of teams performance.
Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Undertake personal development plans (PDP), supervisions, ensure teams compliance with mandatory training and mentor developing staff within the clinical environment. Initiate training and development of team members.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.Deliver holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs and consider a range of interventions options with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students. Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
* The post holder shall as necessarily provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Appropriate prescriber - if required within the role
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Registration with relevant professional body.
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi -agency working
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Understanding how other agencies work.
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
- IT literate.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills.
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Appropriate prescriber - if required within the role
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Registration with relevant professional body.
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi -agency working
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Understanding how other agencies work.
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
- IT literate.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills.
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
