Clinical Lead for Stroke Physiotherapy

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Physiotherapist to join our Integrated Community Stroke Therapy Team, based at Furness General Hospital, providing advanced clinical leadership across both inpatient and community settings. Our Stroke Therapy Team operates within a culture of a strong, supportive multi-disciplinary team which consists of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists as well as Assistant Practitioners. We promote an inter-disciplinary approach to working when supporting patients to set and work towards meeting person centred goals, helping to enable positive rehabilitation outcomes and facilitate timely discharge from hospital.

Our Stroke Therapy Team are committed to facilitating an environment which promotes professional development and engagement with research opportunities both in house and in collaboration with local universities. There is encouragement given to engage with regular clinical and managerial supervision, to help promote personal professional development and an interdisciplinary approach is taken with the facilitation of clinical supervision for our Assistant Practitioners.

Main duties of the job

• To be professionally and clinically responsible for highly specialist physiotherapy assessment and treatment, working as an autonomous practitioner managing patients with a wide range of highly complex conditions.
• Provide highly specialist advice, training and leadership to Physiotherapy staff, Staff within the ICST, GP’s, wider community MDT, ASC and 3rd sector.
• The post holder will assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate individualised programmes of evidence based care providing highly specialist advice to patients, carers/relatives, and the multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre. FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services. WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay. Our Community Service for adults are provided in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on the advertised position and the principal job duties/responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification found under the supporting documents section. Additional information about the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay can be accessed on our website.

Person specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

• BSc Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registered with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of relevant Post Graduate training or relevant experience
• Membership of appropriate Special Interest groups

Experience

• Previous relevant Experience at Band 6 or 7 level.
• Current knowledge and experience of caring for patients with conditions related to speciality.
• Evidence of mentoring, assessing, teaching and developing staff
• Exercise a high degree of autonomy within specialist area
• Experience of undertaking audit
• Evidence of management and leadership experience

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Demonstrable basic and advanced clinical skills in relevant clinical areas for this post
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others demonstrating effective time management and organisational skills and exercise sound judgements
• Demonstrate advanced people management skills including: Motivation of staff and team building, Negotiation, Decision Making, Leadership, Staff development, Line management, Conflict and problem solving, Initiating and managing change
• Competent in IT skills (in particular e-mail, use of internet ability to manipulate data electronically, power point presentations)
• Demonstrate ability to make clinical decisions and to develop others in this area.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL. The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive. The trust operates a No Smoking Policy. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview. We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received. The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert. If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts. Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

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