Job summary
Are you looking for a new, varied and exciting role?
Due to maternity leave, we have a fixed term opportunity for a professional Lead in Physiotherapy to join our Older People and Therapies CDG.
This role will provide strategic and clinical leadership to the Physiotherapists working within the acute and Community Hospitals. You will ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive professional leadership.
You will be overseeing and providing professional leadership for our Physiotherapists and assistants to ensure we deliver a, safe, compassionate high quality care.
You will also work alongside other therapy professional leads and with the AHP Strategic Lead, Head of Therapies and General Manager on operational and strategic planning and development of the Integrated Therapy Service and to achieve the Trust's Values in their day - to - day work.
Main duties of the job
To apply a broad background of clinical and leadership skill and experience to the management of the service.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service.
To provide professional leadership for the Physiotherapist employed within the Integrated Therapy Service at ESNEFT.
To represent Therapies at Governance Forums across the Division.
To be accountable for staff and patient safety when delivering Integrated Therapy Services within ESNEFT.
To be accountable for the management of the recruitment process for all Integrated Therapy Service staff (liaising with Finance and Human Resources).
To act as a source of expert advice and leadership to the MDT and Head of Therapies in matters regarding Physiotherapy.
To oversee the clinical work of designated teams and support/facilitate good practise in workload and caseload management.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEvidence of academic pathway equivalent to Degree in Physiotherapy
- oDemonstration and evidence of personal professional development
Desirable
- oMasters Degree or working toward/unit/departments Masters Degree level education
- oManagement Leadership Qualification, which has been tested in a management post
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience at senior therapist level and proven recent experience as Band 7
- Awareness Current health policy and its impact on the management and development of acute health services
- Experience of effective budgetary management
- Experience in providing advice to specialist and non-specialist staff
- Experience of ability to manage change quickly & effectively
- Experience of ability to manage and lead therapy team
- Experience of service redesign and development
- A proven record of success in managing significant operational change while also developing and maintaining high standards of care
- Experience of analysing and making judgements involving situations where there are a number of conflicting issues, and where there is no obvious outcome - some of which be conflicting
- Experience of interpreting national policies and initiatives and implementing these into the workplace
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Desirable
- oEvidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation
- oLeadership Facilitator
- oExperience of leading strategic/cross Trust changes
- oExperience in preparing business cases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEvidence of academic pathway equivalent to Degree in Physiotherapy
- oDemonstration and evidence of personal professional development
Desirable
- oMasters Degree or working toward/unit/departments Masters Degree level education
- oManagement Leadership Qualification, which has been tested in a management post
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience at senior therapist level and proven recent experience as Band 7
- Awareness Current health policy and its impact on the management and development of acute health services
- Experience of effective budgetary management
- Experience in providing advice to specialist and non-specialist staff
- Experience of ability to manage change quickly & effectively
- Experience of ability to manage and lead therapy team
- Experience of service redesign and development
- A proven record of success in managing significant operational change while also developing and maintaining high standards of care
- Experience of analysing and making judgements involving situations where there are a number of conflicting issues, and where there is no obvious outcome - some of which be conflicting
- Experience of interpreting national policies and initiatives and implementing these into the workplace
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Desirable
- oEvidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation
- oLeadership Facilitator
- oExperience of leading strategic/cross Trust changes
- oExperience in preparing business cases
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).
