Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service as Team Lead.
This role involves both clinical and operational responsibilities. The successful candidate will provide a high quality, evidence based therapy service to patients admitted to hospital on a trauma and/or orthopaedic pathway. This will include, but is not exclusive to, trauma, major trauma, elective surgery, fractured neck of femur and amputee patients.
The Team Leader will provide highly specialist Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapist intervention for a caseload of Orthopaedic patients and and offer advanced clinical reasoning within the specialism to support complex decision making.
The Team Leader will be responsible fordeveloping, managing, planning and delivering the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy service with support from the Clinical Lead and Clinical Therapy Manager.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dynamic individual to lead the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy team to provide clinical expertise and to deliver a high quality effective service in line with best practice.
The successful candidate will operationally manage the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy service and clinically lead the team.
The Team Lead will have a clinical role; to receive referrals, undertake full assessment and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programmes for patients using advanced clinical reasoning and a variety of highly specialist skills to rehabilitate and safely discharge their patients.
In addition, the Team Lead will have daily operational responsibility in managing a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. In this realm you will be responsible for supervision, education and training and will have opportunity to develop the current service.
About us
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
- CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead a team of therapists to provide a high quality, evidence based, up to date Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy service.
To be operationally responsible for the day-to-day management of this team ensuring they have regular supervision, PDR and are compliant with Mandatory training.
To lead service developments including policies, education and training of other health professionals on matters of rehabilitation.
To work as a member of the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and enhance the Therapy services for this rehabilitation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead a team of therapists to provide a high quality, evidence based, up to date Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy service.
To be operationally responsible for the day-to-day management of this team ensuring they have regular supervision, PDR and are compliant with Mandatory training.
To lead service developments including policies, education and training of other health professionals on matters of rehabilitation.
To work as a member of the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and enhance the Therapy services for this rehabilitation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- MSc level or equivalent post-graduate qualification
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Clinical Educator Qualification
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development within specialism
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-graduate Orthopaedic experience and knowledge
- Experience in leadership and supervising staff
- Experience of service development
Desirable
- Experience of leading audit
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area and demonstrates experience in developing local care pathway
- Excellent teaching and presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work closely with the MDT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- MSc level or equivalent post-graduate qualification
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Clinical Educator Qualification
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development within specialism
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-graduate Orthopaedic experience and knowledge
- Experience in leadership and supervising staff
- Experience of service development
Desirable
- Experience of leading audit
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area and demonstrates experience in developing local care pathway
- Excellent teaching and presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work closely with the MDT.
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).
