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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent: Weekend working may apply
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (weekend working may apply)
Job ref
275-2412TLT-E1
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/01/2025 23:59

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Team Lead Therapist - Enablement

Band 7

Job overview

Team Lead Therapist - Enablement

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: Band 7

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Team Lead Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Undertake a team lead role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating a specialist Therapies Service, including specialist outpatient and follow up clinics as required.

As an autonomous practitioner to take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy treatment indicated.

Seven day working patterns apply. Involvement in the hospital wide physiotherapy on-call emergency physiotherapy service is required for Physiotherapy Team Leads.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patents where appropriate.

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Degree/Diploma in Profesional Field
  • Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
  • Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD to Masters Level

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of work procedures and practices
  • Knowledge of carrying out assessment and treatment in the context of complex medical and psychological problems where there are likely to be conflicting expert opinions
  • Strong understanding of enablement approach

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad range of relevant clinical experience
  • Experience of Clinical Education of Students within area of expertise
  • Sound understanding of clinical governance and risk
  • Experience of leading change
  • Experience of quality improvement and audit

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Profficient in the use of Microsoft IT packages.
  • IT skills required to compile data sets and reports in conjunction with business intelligence
  • Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others within both formal and informal environements
  • Excellent motivational and influencing skills

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverDisability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStep into health

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early if the number of applications is met.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Zara Elenkova
Job title
Acting Lead Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07771710450
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