Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Clinical Team Manager

Job summary Are you a Band 6 or Band 7 Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career?
If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Physiotherapist to take up the role of Clinical Team Manager within the Orthopaedic In-patient Therapy Service.
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual, with excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
You must be organised, flexible and able to empower others, with the ability to implement and drive change across the service.
Being part of the senior therapy team, the post holder will work alongside the Occupational Therapy Clinical Team Manager, Clinical Leads, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure the safe and timely provision of therapy to support both the trauma and elective aspects of the service.
The post holder will be required to have in depth understanding and experience of working within this specialist area.
Additionally, the post holder will have a comprehensive understanding of the 'Home First' approach to patient care, where health and care systems work together to provide a safe and timely discharge of people who no longer need to stay in hospital.
Main duties of the job Provide day-to-day management, including supervision and development of staff, annual leave, sickness, initial handling of complaints.
Ensure that standards of professional practice are adhered to from a personal and team perspective, and in accordance with the Trust's governance framework.
Utilise highly developed specialist skills in the assessment and treatment of own caseload of patients, developing specialised programmes of care individually and/or in groups as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a variety of settings.
Be able to able to prioritise and allocate within the team the clinical caseload in line with the changing and competing demands of the service.
About us Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative.
We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.
We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.
Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality.
We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications.
Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.
Job description Job responsibilities *For full details, refer to the Job Description / Specification attached.
Main tasks and responsibilities Patient/Clinical Care To manage your clinical caseload with autonomy, guided by policies, procedures, codes of practice and departmental working practices.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and advanced analytical skills and clinical reasoning.
Using developed knowledge and experience to make a therapeutic diagnosis of a patients condition and interpret clinical findings and documentation to formulate a comprehensive specialised programme of care, including decision making about the most appropriate treatment options.
For example, where self-referral occurs, clinical diagnosis is made and a programme of care is developed.
To supervise less experienced staff and students in the provision of patient care.
To provide planned and spontaneous advice to patients/clients, junior staff, staff of other disciplines, formal and informal carers and relatives.
To have highly developed physical, dextrous and manipulative skills for the treatment of patients, which may involve the use of specialist equipment relating to the area of therapy.
To be responsible for maintaining and managing accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with professional and local standards for themselves and their team.
To frequently exert physical effort in cramped conditions and sustained postures for periods of up to 40 minutes several times a day.
This would include moving patients as part of their treatment or moving equipment.
With every patient, concentration is required to listen, observe, evaluate, document, plan and act on information gathered.
Work can frequently be unpredictable and interrupted.
To deal frequently with distressing or emotional situations, such as dealing with patients and families who are distressed due to acute or a terminal illness, those who are elderly, those with special needs and those experiencing prolonged ongoing deterioration.
To have daily contact with patients bodily fluids, odours, dust, etc.
Management Responsibilities 1.
To be the line manager for a multi-professional team managing referrals into the service, workload prioritisation and allocation within the team, taking into account the changing/competing demands.
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To be responsible for the day-to-day management of a team, including annual leave, sickness, initial handling of complaints, disciplinary issues and recruitment.
This will also include dealing with staff who may be upset.
This may be due to clinical and managerial issues.
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To play a key role in the coordination of activities with other agencies, such as discharge planning and case management.
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To propose and implement policy/procedures and service improvements, which may impact across the directorate as a whole.
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To be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment and resources by staff and patients and ensure that equipment is monitored and maintained in good condition.
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To ensure that accurate management information is collected and collated for the To act as an authorised signatory for the team, including the signing of travel expense sheets, locum and overtime time sheets and equipment purchases, totalling more than £1000 per month.
Communication and relationships 1.
To communicate effectively with patients and carers/relatives to progress specific rehabilitation and treatment programmes.
This would include providing and receiving complex information, using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills, particularly persuading/influencing to ensure compliance with treatment.
This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding or communicating, , patients who may be dysphasic, depressed, visually impaired, hard of hearing, or may be unable to accept their diagnosis.
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To communicate effectively with a range of professionals within the team, within the directorate and within the trust and in external agencies, including primary care, social services, voluntary organisations and others.
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To regularly make presentations to groups and individuals both within the trust and external to the trust.
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To provide support to patients, relatives or staff who may be upset, angry or aggressive.
This may include clinical and managerial issues.
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To regularly provide training to own discipline, multi-disciplinary/other professionals and students.
Governance 1.
To work within the standards of professional practise as described by professional body.
To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practise through postgraduate training and CPD in the specialist area/field.
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To provide the managerial support necessary to enable the team to achieve the same.
This will include implementation and monitoring of staff appraisal systems, the development of a structured training plan for staff and access to mandatory training.
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To access and provide support (including clinical, peer and managerial) as required.
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To record and store patient related information in computerised and paper-based systems.
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When working in the community or domiciliary settings to work as a lone practitioner within the lone worker policy guidelines.
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To initiate or participate in the design of complex multi-disciplinary audit and research projects at a local, regional or national level.
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To maintain and develop specialist knowledge of evidence-based practise in the area of work.
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To be actively involved in improvements to service delivery, , evaluation of clinical practise, evidence-based projects, audit, outcome measure, and representation at local meetings and attendance at national meetings.
Person Specification Experience Essential o2 years' experience as Specialist Therapist in a related area.
Qualifications Essential oBSc hons in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Specialist formal post graduate training and experience equating to MSc/or an MSc in related field.
oHCPC registration Skills, Knowledge and Competencies Essential oUp to date knowledge of government policy and strategy oEvidence of previous managerial experience oKnowledge, skills and experience treating patients with orthopaedic conditionsy.