Job summary
Our Short-Term Support Service is a multi-disciplinary team, that consists of Occupational Therapists, Reablement Workers, Physiotherapists and Support Staff. The teams are instrumental in delivering a high quality of care to support rehabilitation and reablement across Northumberland.
We are pleased that we have been able to secure investment to enable us to recruit additional resource within our teams across the county and are excited to be able to offer an opportunity for highly motivated candidates to work within a leadership role within our Short-Term Support Services.
There are two posts available - the first is based in Blyth; the second will be based between Alnwick and Berwick. You may be asked to work across multiple Trust sites.
The successful candidate will have NHS Experience and will work as the Locality Lead AHP for the relevant STSS team. This will include managing a team of both Physiotherapists and Support Staff. The post holder will provide a link to our Local Authority colleagues and will work closely with the Operational Services Manager/Clinical Lead providing specialist advice and support as required. The post holder will also hold a caseload proportionate to their team.
The candidate will have undertaken leadership training and will have a high level of specialised knowledge in the field of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. Excellent communication and time management skills are essential, alongside previous experience in supervising staff.
Main duties of the job
- Operational management of core health and social care services to a defined population including maintaining overall responsibility for service planning and delivery in line with policies laid down by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Northumberland County Council Social Services Department.
- Day to day management of the community team within a specified area.
- Management of staff providing a range of community-based services which contribute to ongoing care, rehabilitation and intermediate care.
- To ensure effective and timely service delivery and development across the interfaces between professions, teams, and organisations.
- To maximise individual and service outcomes and facilitate a person centred approach to promoting clients' independence.
- Required to manage financial and physical resources in the team in accordance with legal requirements and service principles.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
Please note: this role may require assessment centre or psychometric testing.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work clinically as required.
- To advise and guide the physiotherapists and technical instructors (TIs) who work within STSS localities to ensure high quality service delivery in relation to the service guidelines, as well as organisational and national guidelines.
- To monitor the performance of the physiotherapists and TIs working in designated area and offer feedback to support clinical improvements.
- To work as a resource for all physiotherapists and TIs working in designated area to ensure the maintenance of equitable service delivery.
- To participate in the supervision of physiotherapy staff within designated area in the form of peer review, live supervision, clinical meetings and formal one to ones.
- To participate in annual staff appraisal.
- To ensure the progression of Continued Professional Development and the retention of documented evidence in the form of portfolios.
- To support locally with wellbeing/ HR/Occupational Health.
- To support the development of physiotherapy and rehabilitation services.
- To provide management and leadership to a team of physiotherapists and support staff within a given locality.
- Directly responsible to OSM/Clinical Lead.
- To inform the Senior Manager of professional requirements to maintain a high standard of physiotherapy interventions for and on behalf of designated area.
- To liaise with physiotherapists to create integrated pathways of care and to ensure best practice on behalf of the designated client group.
- To maintain a high level of personal / professional competency and to appraise that of others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work clinically as required.
- To advise and guide the physiotherapists and technical instructors (TIs) who work within STSS localities to ensure high quality service delivery in relation to the service guidelines, as well as organisational and national guidelines.
- To monitor the performance of the physiotherapists and TIs working in designated area and offer feedback to support clinical improvements.
- To work as a resource for all physiotherapists and TIs working in designated area to ensure the maintenance of equitable service delivery.
- To participate in the supervision of physiotherapy staff within designated area in the form of peer review, live supervision, clinical meetings and formal one to ones.
- To participate in annual staff appraisal.
- To ensure the progression of Continued Professional Development and the retention of documented evidence in the form of portfolios.
- To support locally with wellbeing/ HR/Occupational Health.
- To support the development of physiotherapy and rehabilitation services.
- To provide management and leadership to a team of physiotherapists and support staff within a given locality.
- Directly responsible to OSM/Clinical Lead.
- To inform the Senior Manager of professional requirements to maintain a high standard of physiotherapy interventions for and on behalf of designated area.
- To liaise with physiotherapists to create integrated pathways of care and to ensure best practice on behalf of the designated client group.
- To maintain a high level of personal / professional competency and to appraise that of others.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or professional qualification
Desirable
- Qualification or training in management
- Evidence of post graduate education
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or professional qualification
Desirable
- Qualification or training in management
- Evidence of post graduate education
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Short Term Support Services - Trust Wide
Blyth Community Hospital/ Alnwick Fire Station, Lionheart Ind. Est./MacDonald House, Berwick
Blyth, Alnwick and Berwick
NE24 1DX
Employer's website
https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
