Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist looking to advance your career, and develop your operational management and leadership skills?
We’re looking for a Lead Therapist to join our Respiratory Medicine Team of occupational therapists, physiotherapist and therapy support workers. Based at the Northern General Hospital, the team provide urgent, acute, and on-going care to patients with various respiratory conditions. The service is delivered on inpatient respiratory wards, the Sheffield Adult Fibrosis Centre, and the Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy service.
Day-to-day you will provide operational management and leadership for the teams inpatient and outpatient services. You will support the development of divisional education programmes, and the provision of undergraduate occupational therapy and physiotherapy student capacity and training
Main duties of the job
A key part of your role is to support staff health and wellbeing, education, and professional development. We are looking for someone with excellent communication, people and organisational skills who is able to deliver and sustain a positive, supportive team culture.
As well as a passion for supporting and developing people and services, the post requires a high level of specialist or senior-level post-registration experience working as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist within an acute hospital setting.
While this role is predominantly a leadership one, part of the role will be to carry a small clinical caseload. Whilst clinical experience within respiratory care is beneficial, we can offer training within this field to the successful candidate. For this post there will be no requirement to participate in weekend or on-call services at this time.
In return, we can offer you plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in the role, including:
· Development of supervision and mentorship skills
· Opportunities to deliver and receive teaching & training
· Participation in and/or leading quality improvement initiatives
· Involvement in clinical governance/assurance/management forums within the team, service and division
· Development of operational, service delivery and line management knowledge and skills, including HR processes
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The role offers the opportunity for either a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development within the field of operational management and leadership.
There will be opportunities for:
- Supervision and mentorship of all grades of Therapy staff
- A variety of teaching/training opportunities within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and the multi-disciplinary team.
- Participation in and/or leading quality improvement initiatives within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and the multi-disciplinary team.
- Development of operational, service delivery and line management knowledge and skills including HR processes
- Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums within the Division, Acute Therapy Services and across the wider trust.
- Support by accessing the Trust wide offers such as the Managing for Excellence network and the newly launched LEAD programme both of which are aimed at supporting and developing operational managers and leaders
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the person specification and the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy
- • Current HPC Registration
- • Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning.
Desirable criteria
- • Masters degree in management or leadership
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience as a qualified therapist including post-registration NHS experience as a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
- • Significant experience as a senior therapist especially for the day to day management of a clinical area.
- • In-depth inter-professional knowledge of therapy in an acute hospital.
- • Line management of Therapy staff including appraisal and supervision.
- • Clinical and Corporate Governance including Risk Management.
- • Significant experience in emergency respiratory on call (PT only)
Desirable criteria
- • Member of Special Interest Group
- • Governance
- Teaching
Further training
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
- • Current clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
- • Current knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
- • Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
Desirable criteria
- • Management and leadership development training
- • NVQ Assessor
- • Clinical Governance
- • Risk Assessment
- • Research, Clinical Audit or Practice
- • Leadership
Special skills/apptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Excellent group working skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
- • Excellent interpersonal, communication, group working and leadership skills
- • Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and others.
- • Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
- • Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals.
- • Able to maintain confidentiality
- IT Literate
- • Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure
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
- Hazel White
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2714379
- Additional information
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