Team Lead

Team Lead opportunity: Ivybridge Community Rehabilitation Team.

The Ivybridge team are located at the Hayloft, Yealmpton. They deliver a dynamic service including Urgent Community Response, Home First and Intermediate Care across the South Hams. They provide a highly skilled community rehabilitation service for a range of individuals and conditions including falls, frailty and long term conditions. The team prides itself on skillfully supporting people to remain independent at home.

The team works closely with a multi-disciplinary team of community nurses and social care colleagues.

We are seeking an enthusiastic person with compassionate leadership qualities. You must be an appropriately qualified Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to support this dynamic, proactive team. We are seeking someone with experience of working in the community, across pathways, to develop our offer. We require someone who can work with our clinical leadership team to ensure equity of service delivery across South Hams and West Devon.

You will be supported and facilitated to develop in your role. It is encouraged that you maintain clinical work and support the weekend rota (approx one day 1:14 weekends / year).

For an informal discussion, please contact Jessica Clarke jessica.clarke27@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Undertake a team leader role, in planning, co-ordinating, delivering, developing and evaluating the community rehabilitation team.

To line manage the community rehabilitation team.

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

Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.

Supervise, educate and assess the performance of students and more junior staff; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To be professional and legallyresponsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including themanagement of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical carefor the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to dolikewise.

To interpret and analyse clinical andnon-clinical facts to form accurate clinical diagnosis and prognoses in a widerange of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course ofintervention, and to develop comprehensive management plans.

Torepresent the organisation externally (locally, regionally and nationally)regarding community rehabilitation services in older peoples rehabilitation.

To undertake the comprehensiveassessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, usinginvestigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised managementand treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range ortreatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care andto support junior staff in this work.

To demonstrate highly developeddexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manualtreatment of patients.

Use an extensive range of verbal andnon-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients/carers;to motivate, gain co-operation, to progress rehabilitation and treatmentprogrammes. This will include patientswho may have difficulties in understanding or communicating; e.g.: patients maybe dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind or who may be unable to accept diagnosis,or realistic expectations of Physiotherapy intervention.

To accept clinical responsibility for adesignated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively andefficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.

To participate in working partiesdeveloping policy changes within intermediate care, which will impact on allservice users.

To ensure, as team leader, thatdesignated staff implement policy and service development changes.

To work with the Professional Lead indeveloping the strategic and operational management of the rehabilitation service.

To provide spontaneous and plannedadvice, teaching and instruction to patients/relatives, carers and otherprofessionals, to promote understanding of the aims of rehabilitation, and toensure a consistent approach to patient care.

To provide specialist and highlyspecialist advice to colleagues working within other clinical areas.

To provide specialist advice, teachingand training to other members of the MDT regarding the management of patients.

To regularly teach, train, supervise andperformance -manage more junior staff, technical instructors, assistants andstudents. This will include the use offormal appraisal documentation.

To work jointly with other health andsocial care colleagues and services (for example medical,nursing, Social Services, private sector and therapy colleagues) to ensurepatients identified rehabilitation and care needs are met through delivery ofa co-ordinated multi-disciplinary service.

To advise on and prescribe asappropriate, and in line with organisational and departmental policies andprocedures, both general and specialist rehabilitation aids, equipment andrecommend low-level adaptations for patients.

To initiate, organise and attendmulti-disciplinary/multi-agency case conferences, liaison meetings and patientreviews as necessary and appropriate.

To assess capacity, gain valid informedconsent, which must be documented and have the ability to work within a legalframework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. To complywith local confidentiality policies and procedures to protect vulnerablechildren and adults.

Professional

To maintain own clinical professionaldevelopment (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, andincorporate them as necessary into your work.

To be an active member/lead of thein-service training programme by attending and delivering presentations andtraining sessions at staff meetings, tutorials, training sessions in house andby attending/organising external courses and practising reflective practice.

To communicate effectively and workcollaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues at all levels toensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. This will includecase conferences, ward rounds and discharge planning.

To participate in the staff appraisalscheme and Personal Development Plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee.

To undertake the measurement andevaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence BasedPractice projects, audit and outcome measures.Make recommendations for change.

To demonstrate a sound understanding ofClinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation.

To be responsible for the ClinicalSupervision and appraisal of the Community Rehabilitation Team.

To assist in the recruitment of relevantgrades of staff as required.

Managerial/Organisational

To line manage the CommunityRehabilitation Team, which includes senior therapists. Manage the recruitment process, conductinterviews, and be responsible for sickness absence, disciplinary and grievanceissues.

To be responsible for a designated areaof work, and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard topatients management and use of time.

To decide priorities for own work area,balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that theseremain in accordance with those of the section as a whole

To be responsible for ensuring theeffective selection and use of all treatment resources available both in thedepartment and on the unit.

To be responsible for equipment used incarrying out therapy duties, and to adhere to policies, including competence touse equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through,teaching, training and supervision of practice.

To maintain accurate, comprehensive andup-to-date documentation, in line with legal, organisational and professional requirementsand communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplinesin the form of reports and letters.

To be actively involved in thecollection of appropriate data and statistics in line with organisationalpolicies and procedures.

To be aware of Health and Safety aspectsof your work and implement any policies, which may be required to improve thesafety of your work area, including your prompt recording and reporting ofincidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment use is safe.

To comply with the organisationalpolicies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing, instigating,devising and updating as appropriate.

To undertake any other duties that mightbe considered appropriate by the line manager and/or Professional Lead.

PhysicalEffort:

Moderate to intense physical effort on a daily basis. Tasks include:

Static postures (kneeling/standing)

Moving/positioning inert adult limbs, unconscious/semi-consciouspatients and altered tone

Supporting patients whilst walking

Assisting patients during transfers

Pushing wheelchairs

Using hoists and other heavy gym equipment on a daily basis

Regular moving/adjustment of patients ward environment to maximisetheir independence and safety

Mental Effort:

Dealing with complex patients for long periods on a daily basis

Daily requirement for prolonged periods of concentration, e.g.assessment and treatment of complex and sometimes unpredictable patients.

Ensuring good communications with patients who have impaired understandingor communication difficulties.

Frequently using complex problem solving skills, making and dealingwith difficult clinical decisions, including use of medical equipment.

Daily requirement for multi-tasking e.g. writing notes, communicatingwith team, telephone calls, with regularinterruptions

With the team set goals and plans for the patient. Summarise treatmentand future goals when writing discharge reports.

On a daily basis prioritise the teams workload and coordinate workingpattern.

Prepare and deliver training packages to a range of staff.

Appraise and set personal development plans with the team.

With MDT visionary planning and delivering service development.

EmotionalEffort:

Dealing with patients and families undergoing major changes in theirhealth and social position, e.g. anxious and/or angry carers, family, familybreakdown, isolated and depressed patients and carers on a daily basis.

Frequently helping patients and carers come to terms with theirimpairments, disability and handicap.

Dealing with death, bereavement, the terminally ill, distressingconditions and treatments.

Immediate response tocomplaints/demands from distressed or anxious patients, carers and otherprofessionals.