Job summary
The lack of paediatric LTV physiotherapy skills across South and North Thames Paediatric Networks poses a risk to the delivery of safe management of Children and Young People on LTV who present acutely unwell to ED. This often results in these patients deteriorating in their local hospital and having to be transferred to a Tertiary Centre.
The Pan Thames Paediatric Long Term Ventilation (LTV) Programme is recruiting a Physiotherapy Lead to review physiotherapy workforce and upskill staff (in both acute Trusts and in the community) with adequate physio skills. The aim is to reduce hospital admissions and transfers of CYP on LTV to a Tertiary Centre.
Main duties of the job
The proposed role will work independently and focus on four aspects:
- Mapping physiotherapy provision across the South and North Thames Paediatric Networks to canvas need and what is required;
- Develop and deliver a comprehensive MDT education and training programme focusing primarily on acute Trusts but also clearly articulating the education and training needs in the community;
- Create escalation procedures and bespoke best practice pathways between DGHs and tertiary centres to avoid admissions and prevent transfers;
- Work with the local teams to identify barriers and sustainable long-term solutions and support them with the development of business cases.
- The proposed role will champion and lead the delivery of the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV programme's priorities from a physiotherapy (and when required from a wider AHP) perspective.
- The proposed role will work collaboratively with the programme team and the provider and commissioning colleagues across the region.
About us
The Pan Thames paediatric LTV programme aims to to transform service delivery of paediatric LTV to reduce the time babies, children and young people on LTV spend in hospital and maximise high-quality care and time at home.
The Pan Thames paediatric LTV programme is commissioned by NHS England and is jointly managed by the South and North Thames Paediatric Operational Delivery Networks to transform service delivery of paediatric LTV (Tracheostomy and Non Invasive Ventilation) to reduce the time babies, children and young people on LTV spend in hospital and to maximise high-quality care and time at home.
Geographically, the programme covers the North Thames Paediatric Network (North London and bordering East of England Trusts), and the South Thames Paediatric Network (South London, Kent and Medway, Surrey Heartlands, Sussex).
The post holder will join a multi disciplinary team of highly passionate individuals. More information on our team can be found here .
The post holder will be asked to be in our offices based in Waterloo (St Thomas' hospital) and in Russell Square (Great Ormond Street hospital) at least two days a week, when not delivering training on site.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Consult with senior managers, clinicians and stakeholders to define the precise scope of the Pan Thames Physiotherapy lead role for CYP on LTV, effectively identifying key objectives, milestones and future research and development priorities.
- Have an oversight of formal and informal education programmes that are developed and implemented within the NTPN and STPN for physiotherapy workforce.
- Work closely with other educators and physiotherapists, in contributing to the development, review and delivery of specialty related physiotherapy training, and in the evaluation of relevant courses to help inform future educations programmes and requirements.
- Provide project management expertise to the colleagues involved in the work and ensure that all participants have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery.
- Develop and produce written documentation, including status reports to project and STPN and NTPN Boards, project information/data/audit reports, business cases for funding and/or explanations of technical and complex issues. Ensure all communication is appropriate for target audiences.As part of the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme team, proactively ensure that risks are managed effectively including risk identification and the implementation of mitigation plans.
Financial Management
- Inform internal and external commissioning and procurement of physiotherapy related products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the education programme and other relevant projects.
Communication and Partnership Development
- Manage engagement plans to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained with senior clinical and managerial staff to enable the achievement of change and the improvement of performance; building a coalition of committed partners.
- Work closely with staff across multiple organisations and healthcare sectors to understand their services and the opportunities and ideas they have for service improvement.
- Manage strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians.
- Use negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the programme across the breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, patients and providers.
Information management
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate both the education programme and project information management systems, ensuring they are fit for purpose to a range of audiences.
- Develop, refine and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data.
- Work in collaboration with the Pan Thames LTV Programmes data analyst to develop and maintain databases required by the project.Develop policies and protocols to support education and projects that are consistent with the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme standards.
- Support wider review and development of existing education courses and project information management systems to ensure an integrated approach to project management.
Business Development and Strategic Planning
- Maintain knowledge/understanding of the changing priorities/ pressures/ opportunities in delivering physiotherapy care for CYP on LTV.
- Identify potential physiotherapy workforce issues that will help to inform the planning and development of new models of care for CYP on LTV.
- Forecast trends and developments that affect service delivery and inform strategic planning.
- Manage the development of a physiotherapy workforce and education strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice.
- Ensure project plans for all service developments are in line with the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme mission and goals.
- Support the programme team in workforce capacity planning and analysis, as relevant. This may include physiotherapy workforce development needs.
- Implement innovative methods to gain patient and public involvement to inform service direction, improvement, user satisfaction and as a tool for performance management.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Consult with senior managers, clinicians and stakeholders to define the precise scope of the Pan Thames Physiotherapy lead role for CYP on LTV, effectively identifying key objectives, milestones and future research and development priorities.
- Have an oversight of formal and informal education programmes that are developed and implemented within the NTPN and STPN for physiotherapy workforce.
- Work closely with other educators and physiotherapists, in contributing to the development, review and delivery of specialty related physiotherapy training, and in the evaluation of relevant courses to help inform future educations programmes and requirements.
- Provide project management expertise to the colleagues involved in the work and ensure that all participants have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery.
- Develop and produce written documentation, including status reports to project and STPN and NTPN Boards, project information/data/audit reports, business cases for funding and/or explanations of technical and complex issues. Ensure all communication is appropriate for target audiences.As part of the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme team, proactively ensure that risks are managed effectively including risk identification and the implementation of mitigation plans.
Financial Management
- Inform internal and external commissioning and procurement of physiotherapy related products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the education programme and other relevant projects.
Communication and Partnership Development
- Manage engagement plans to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained with senior clinical and managerial staff to enable the achievement of change and the improvement of performance; building a coalition of committed partners.
- Work closely with staff across multiple organisations and healthcare sectors to understand their services and the opportunities and ideas they have for service improvement.
- Manage strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians.
- Use negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the programme across the breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, patients and providers.
Information management
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate both the education programme and project information management systems, ensuring they are fit for purpose to a range of audiences.
- Develop, refine and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data.
- Work in collaboration with the Pan Thames LTV Programmes data analyst to develop and maintain databases required by the project.Develop policies and protocols to support education and projects that are consistent with the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme standards.
- Support wider review and development of existing education courses and project information management systems to ensure an integrated approach to project management.
Business Development and Strategic Planning
- Maintain knowledge/understanding of the changing priorities/ pressures/ opportunities in delivering physiotherapy care for CYP on LTV.
- Identify potential physiotherapy workforce issues that will help to inform the planning and development of new models of care for CYP on LTV.
- Forecast trends and developments that affect service delivery and inform strategic planning.
- Manage the development of a physiotherapy workforce and education strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice.
- Ensure project plans for all service developments are in line with the Pan Thames Paediatric LTV Programme mission and goals.
- Support the programme team in workforce capacity planning and analysis, as relevant. This may include physiotherapy workforce development needs.
- Implement innovative methods to gain patient and public involvement to inform service direction, improvement, user satisfaction and as a tool for performance management.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
- Relevant Physiotherapist professional qualification and statutory body registration
- Professional or post graduate qualification and/or extensive relevant experience (experience in the healthcare field / NHS and or health science research preferably)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in service improvement e.g. process mapping, demand and capacity analysis, role redesign
Desirable
- Leadership/management training/qualification
Previous experience
Essential
- Experience in managing the care of a child on LTV (with relevant EBP) requiring stabilisation or escalation of care.
- Evidence/experience in education/teaching/workforce development.
- Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
- Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
- Experience of working within complex clinical environments, dealing with highly sensitive information and patients with complex needs.
- Experience of influencing staff at all levels to ensure project objectives are owned by all members of the team including users and stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience of working within Risk and Governance / Patient Safety.
Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Essential
- Ability to plan education programmes within a network.
- Advanced communication skills both written and verbal including advanced formal presentation skills
- Advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data
- Ability to gather and incorporate the views of service users and carers into service change
- Ability to set out conclusions and recommendations clearly and concisely in a range of written and verbal styles to reflect the needs of the audience
- Ability to present to large groups
- Ability to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
- Relevant Physiotherapist professional qualification and statutory body registration
- Professional or post graduate qualification and/or extensive relevant experience (experience in the healthcare field / NHS and or health science research preferably)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in service improvement e.g. process mapping, demand and capacity analysis, role redesign
Desirable
- Leadership/management training/qualification
Previous experience
Essential
- Experience in managing the care of a child on LTV (with relevant EBP) requiring stabilisation or escalation of care.
- Evidence/experience in education/teaching/workforce development.
- Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
- Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
- Experience of working within complex clinical environments, dealing with highly sensitive information and patients with complex needs.
- Experience of influencing staff at all levels to ensure project objectives are owned by all members of the team including users and stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience of working within Risk and Governance / Patient Safety.
Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Essential
- Ability to plan education programmes within a network.
- Advanced communication skills both written and verbal including advanced formal presentation skills
- Advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data
- Ability to gather and incorporate the views of service users and carers into service change
- Ability to set out conclusions and recommendations clearly and concisely in a range of written and verbal styles to reflect the needs of the audience
- Ability to present to large groups
- Ability to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
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
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).
