Therapy Team Lead

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Excellent opportunity for anyone interested and committed to providing therapy leadership and care in the community.

The role brings a number of exciting factors together, including excellent MDT working across all therapy services coupled with a beautiful location. The team, although small, is friendly and welcoming and warmly supports colleagues.

There is an exciting opportunity for a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to step into a Band 7 Therapy team lead post for the Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Team, Northallerton. They will be responsible for operational leadership for the Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Therapy Assistant Practitioners. The team provides a 2-hour and 2-day response for patients requiring urgent support in their locality of Hambleton & Richmondshire.

Main duties of the job

Based at the Friarage Hospital Northallerton, the role includes excellent MDT working across all therapy services coupled with a beautiful location. The team, although small, is friendly and welcoming and warmly supports colleagues.

This post holder will work closely alongside the existing Therapy Team for the UCR and H@H team Hambleton and Richmondshire. The Therapy Lead will lead an effective and efficient service providing support to the patients in remaining in their own home/ usual place of residence and maintaining their independence. The service will maintain and support the independence of our ageing population.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• To hold a Diploma or Degree awarded by a professional body, e.g. OT/Physio
• Registered as fit to practice by a professional body, e.g. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/development
• To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Demonstrates a highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to therapy provision in the community
• Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model.
• Able to assume additional managerial responsibility and prioritise this accordingly.
• Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service.
• Demonstrates competent IT and system skills.
• Demonstrates evidence of teaching skills to a range of professionals
• Member of a specialist interest group

Key Skills

• Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Demonstrates competent IT and system skills

Experience

• Experience of leading/managing staff within a health/social care operational environment.
• Experience of working within a community therapy service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata