Spinal Outpatient Physiotherapy Team Leader

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to take on the role of Spinal Team Lead within our dynamic Outpatient Physiotherapy Service. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the spinal physiotherapy team from a managerial perspective, supporting clinical development in collaboration with the Spinal Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, and working closely with colleagues across the Trust to enhance the spinal patient pathway. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a passion for spinal care, service improvement, and leadership to shape the future of our spinal services across Frimley Health sites.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide skilled and effective leadership for the spinal team within outpatient physiotherapy, ensuring the delivery of a high quality, evidence based service.
• Manage a complex caseload of spinal patients using highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills as an autonomous practitioner.
• Provide an effective high quality service to all outpatients and oversee the supervision and teaching of physiotherapists and students in the spinal team and outpatient department, as per policy.
• Be responsible for service development, implement policy and policy changes in own clinical area and set and monitor standards of practice.
• Work within the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to monitor and improve the spinal patient pathway, including organising and implementing changes as appropriate.

Working for our organisation:

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the efficient, effective and safe physiotherapy management of all patients within speciality.
• Be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and use clinical reasoning skills to utilise a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
• Be responsible for the coordination and undertaking of complex clinical procedures specific to speciality.
• Provide patients, families and carers with specialist advice and/or instruction, to increase their understanding of their condition and the aims of physiotherapy.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with members of the MDT.
• Provide day to day management of the team within your speciality.
• Plan and prioritise own workload both clinical and managerial including responding to urgent referrals and unpredictable workload and assist the team with theirs.
• Play an active role in the education of the MDT, patients and carers, providing patient information, advice and support.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Essential criteria: BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy, Evidence of relevant spinal CPD post graduate courses.
• Desirable criteria: MSc level study in spinal specialism.

Experience:

• Essential criteria: Relevant B6 experience in MSK Outpatient Physiotherapy, Relevant line management experience of qualified physiotherapists.
• Desirable criteria: Previous B7 Outpatient Physiotherapy Experience, Spinal team rotation completed at B6 level.

Skills:

• Essential criteria: Excellent organisational skills, Excellent management skills, Excellent communication skills.
• Desirable criteria: Excellent clinical skills especially with spinal patients.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.