Job summary
Employer heading
Therapy Clinical Lead - Musculoskeletal Therapies
Band 8a
Job overview
Therapies and Rehabilitation are seeking an innovative and creative Allied Health Professional for a Clinical Lead post (fixed term) in Musculoskeletal Therapy Out-Patients. This exciting role will offer clinical and strategic leadership to AHP’s delivering out-patient Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy care.
The service has a number of Clinical Specialists and team leaders who provide a wide range of highly specialised services ranging from Spinal rehabilitation, Gym rehabilitation, Sports and Exercise Medicine, Fracture Clinic, Emergency Department, Hand therapy, TMD, and Occupational Health. Together with the existing part-time Clinical Lead, the Therapy Service Managers and the Clinical Support Leadership team you will support Clinical Governance and promote the Quality and Safety agendas in MSK Therapy pathways. You will promote evidence based practice, benchmarking and networking to evolve service delivery so that NUH continually improves patient outcomes, access times and departmental efficiency. You will be an inclusive leader who can work across teams to support clinical capacity and to role-model and support collaborative team working.
The role will comprise of clinical (60%) and non-clinical (40%) sessions. The post-holder will possess Advanced Practice skills in all 4 pillars and will be able to support MSK clinical capacity in extended scope clinics
Main duties of the job
This role will provide strategic clinical leadership in the management of patients under the care of NUH across MSK pathways, and will contribute to direct Advanced Practice patient care in the post-holder’s clinical profession.
Example activities and projects which are forecasted in the next 12 months are:
Transition of electronic noting to a new software package. E template creation
Operational implementation of national MSK database PROMS collection in physiotherapy
Clinical response to growing service demand based on national guidelines and internal requests e.g. Breast services, TMD, specialist thoracic outlet syndrome services.
Website content to upgrade patient information and department profile
Continuing the work to promote competency based staff training packages
Expansion of Patient and Public Involvement opportunities
Band 7 team leader training and development
Workforce Optimisation work streams to include demand and capacity and job planning.
The post holder may work across a number of different sites including City Campus, Leengate (Queen’s Campus), the Treatment Centre and the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), Loughborough.
There will be opportunities to develop skills in post via support from the part-time existing Clinical Lead, the Therapy Service Managers and Clinical Specialists. This is a very supportive, friendly service with a positive team culture which highly values excellent patient care and staff well-being.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will be supported by Clinical Lead peers across our respective professions and clinical specialties, alongside therapy service managers and our Directorate Leadership Team.
Please see the attached full Job Description and Personal Specification for further specific details of this post.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Hons in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
- Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty preferably including research skills to a Master’s level.
- Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD
- Knowledge of National, Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Full HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Require highly advanced / theoretical / practical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills relevant to MSK Pathways
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a broad range of services
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate highly complex information which may be sensitive or contentious to all concerned where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. psychosocial issues language barriers, speech problems, learning difficulties or where English is not the first language.
- Able to communicate effectively establishing and maintaining relationships
- Able to utilise persuasion, negotiation and reassurance skills to ensure agreement and co-operation.
- To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy.
- Ability to communicate and present highly complex information effectively, in written and verbal formats to individuals or groups
- Ability to motivate, train and teach own and other disciplines of staff.
- Able to influence Senior medical consultants, GP’s and Commissioners
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse, interpret and compare information e.g. interpreting results of investigations
- Ability to assess, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management, using highly specialist clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of treatment options.
- Ability to provide an expert ‘second opinion’ to patients with highly complex clinical conditions.
- Ability to assess and manage risk in relation to patient care and working environment.
- Ability to critically appraise research literature and together with the team, implement evidence based practice in order to deliver an effective service.
- To evaluate own clinical interventions and that of the team.
- Provide critical evaluation of service delivery and facilitate necessary change
- Ability to allocate limited resources in accordance with changing needs.
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload, by using planning, organisational and time management. This requires flexibility to work over a number of different settings.
- Ability to delegate effectively
- To contribute to the overall service delivery with the multidisciplinary team in own work section/ department/ directorate.
- To develop the Critical Care therapy service in relation to Trust objectives and National guidelines.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Bullock
- Job title
- Clinical Lead - MSK Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Sue Brisco - Therapy Service Manager - MSK Therapies
07812268700
We would love to hear from you if you are interested! We are happy to arrange a conversation by phone, video call or informal visit.
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