Team Lead Physiotherapist - Outpatients - Band 7

Job summary

Band 7 Team Lead for Outpatient Services - Lincoln and Boston

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for dedicated Band 7 Physiotherapists to join the Outpatient Physiotherapy service at United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust. We are currently seeking an experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist to lead the outpatient team at both Lincoln and Boston sites.

The outpatient physiotherapy departments oversee post-operative orthopaedic and general musculoskeletal caseloads, pelvic health services, paediatrics and neuro outpatients. The successful candidate will manage the day to day operations of the physiotherapy outpatient department reporting to the site lead physiotherapy managers.

We are looking for a dynamic individual who is passionate about providing first class assessment & treatment to people with a variety of MSK disorders. You should be able to demonstrate up to date knowledge & evidence of CPD in MSK Physiotherapy & be prepared to lead and to contribute to our MSK IST programme. Evidence of extensive post graduate experience of working in an Outpatient Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy environment is essential as-well as experience of leadership within a clinic team.

Main duties of the job

Undertake a team leader role in planning, co-ordinating, managing, delivering and evaluating Outpatient physiotherapy services within the Lincoln, Pilgrim and Johnson hospitals, ensuring good communication links with Outpatient Team Leads on other sites.

Take a major role in advanced assessment and treatment of MSK Outpatients requiring rehabilitation with complex chronic or acute presentation and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment required. Clinical activity should account for between 60-75% of working hours.

Co-ordinate supervision, leadership, education, and appraisal of Band 5 & 6 Physiotherapists, Senior Physiotherapy Assistants, Physiotherapy Assistants, and assessment of Physiotherapy Students to graduate level, liaising with Universities as required.

Manage the performance of staff within the clinical team, and work with the Site Lead in order to manage the Physiotherapy Service performance within the Outpatient speciality.

Delivery of training to all Physiotherapy staff, in conjunction with the Musculoskeletal Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist.

Take a major role in conjunction with the Musculoskeletal Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist and Site Lead Physiotherapist to monitor and develop clinical standards, audit practice, develop the Outpatient physiotherapy service and ensure evidence based practice is followed.

Contribute to a seven day service working at most 1 weekend in 4 on the weekend orthopaedic rota.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.