Job summary
Are you looking at taking the next step in your clinical and leadership career? Notts Healthcare Trust is seeking for a dynamic energetic Clinical Team manager with proven skills, knowledge and experience to deliver clinical evidence-based practice by the community learning disability physiotherapy team to people with an Intellectual Disability/Mental Health, their families, and carers.
Do you have the emotional intelligence, competencies and drive to lead and coordinate effective multi-disciplinary working, coordinating care and services ensuring all performance management and clinical governance arrangements are in place, this is an opportunity for you.
The Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Team are prod of their values of team working, compassion, respect and shared vision for excellence enabling people with a learning disability to live their lives in the community, experiencing good physical and mental health outcomes.
Main duties of the job
To provide continuing management, leadership and development responsibilities for Community Learning Disability Physiotherapists based in the Community Intellectual Disability Teams (CIDT), ensuring effective delivery of clinical evidence-based practice by the team to people with an Intellectual Disability/Mental Health, their families, and carers.
To ensure effective multi-disciplinary working, working closely with other services as well as having a role in coordinating care and services.
Ensuring all Performance Management and clinical Governance arrangements are in place.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
Will require an experienced senior clinician, Allied Health Professional with proven clinical leadership skills in Learning Disabilities; to ensure delivery of high-quality assessment and treatment, clinical health care to patients, in line with specific standards within a community environment. The post holder will work collaboratively with Team Managers and other Professional Leads across the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Service.
The role requires an experienced clinician with proven clinical, leadership and managerial skills who demonstrates credibility and can influence specialist service delivery within an integrated partnership; including the Dynamic Support Register in order to avoid inappropriate hospital admission and keep people safe in the community.
The post holder will provide line management and offer support to community physiotherapists, through excellent leadership and management and clinical expertise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Will require an experienced senior clinician, Allied Health Professional with proven clinical leadership skills in Learning Disabilities; to ensure delivery of high-quality assessment and treatment, clinical health care to patients, in line with specific standards within a community environment. The post holder will work collaboratively with Team Managers and other Professional Leads across the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Service.
The role requires an experienced clinician with proven clinical, leadership and managerial skills who demonstrates credibility and can influence specialist service delivery within an integrated partnership; including the Dynamic Support Register in order to avoid inappropriate hospital admission and keep people safe in the community.
The post holder will provide line management and offer support to community physiotherapists, through excellent leadership and management and clinical expertise.
Person Specification
Physical Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to perform the full range of clinical duties.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to work to meet the needs of the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
- oHolds UK Driving Licence.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.
Qualifications
Essential
- oProfessional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities) plus further specialist knowledge/post registration experience to diploma level or equivalent
- oMaintain current registration with the NMC and adheres to the NMC code (or equivalent professional body) Demonstrates Professional Development within their specialism
- oManagement and Leadership Qualification and experience.
Desirable
- Working towards Masters in Learning Disability & Autism specialism
- Working towards Masters in leadership /Management
Training
Essential
- oWillingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced knowledge of the principals of medication management and concordance.
- oKnowledge of education of others and identification of training requirement.
- oLearning Disability and Autism strategy
Desirable
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of allied healthcare.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced knowledge of the principals of medication management and concordance.
- oKnowledge of education of others and identification of training requirement.
- oAdvanced knowledge of the Care Programme Approach, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty and Safeguarding etc.
- oKnowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of Clincal risk assessment.
Desirable
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of allied healthcare.
- Knowledge of management theories.
Skills
Essential
- oDemonstrate clinical leadership and management skills and qualities.
Desirable
- Demonstrate Emotional intelligence.
Person Specification
Physical Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to perform the full range of clinical duties.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to work to meet the needs of the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
- oHolds UK Driving Licence.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.
Qualifications
Essential
- oProfessional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities) plus further specialist knowledge/post registration experience to diploma level or equivalent
- oMaintain current registration with the NMC and adheres to the NMC code (or equivalent professional body) Demonstrates Professional Development within their specialism
- oManagement and Leadership Qualification and experience.
Desirable
- Working towards Masters in Learning Disability & Autism specialism
- Working towards Masters in leadership /Management
Training
Essential
- oWillingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced knowledge of the principals of medication management and concordance.
- oKnowledge of education of others and identification of training requirement.
- oLearning Disability and Autism strategy
Desirable
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of allied healthcare.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced knowledge of the principals of medication management and concordance.
- oKnowledge of education of others and identification of training requirement.
- oAdvanced knowledge of the Care Programme Approach, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty and Safeguarding etc.
- oKnowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of Clincal risk assessment.
Desirable
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of allied healthcare.
- Knowledge of management theories.
Skills
Essential
- oDemonstrate clinical leadership and management skills and qualities.
Desirable
- Demonstrate Emotional intelligence.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
