Job summary
Join us as a Therapy Service Lead and play a pivotal role in shaping the
future of Therapy Services across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals. This is an
exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and educator to lead
innovation, drive high quality practice, and influence service development
across WAHT. You will guide the therapy service in evidence based
practice, clinical standards, leading education and CPD, and supporting the
growth of our current and future workforce.
In this role, you will inspire and develop therapy teams, oversee
training and quality assurance, and champion best practice through supervision,
audit, research and service improvement. You will work closely with Therapy
Managers and Service Leads to deliver our strategic vision, while maintaining
your own specialist caseload and modelling exemplary clinical care.
If you are passionate about advancing therapy practice, motivated by
developing others, and excited by the chance to influence service-wide change,
this role offers the scope, support and professional environment to thrive.
Join us and help shape a responsive, forward thinking Therapy Service that
delivers outstanding care for our patients and communities.
Main duties of the job
The role provides expert leadership in evidence based Therapy practice
and education across the service. It oversees the organisation and delivery of
training, audit activity and quality assurance, ensuring alignment with Trust
objectives and operating within allocated budgets.The post leads clinical
supervision, teaching and development for Therapy staff, offering structured
appraisal, guidance and support to junior and senior clinicians. It designs and
delivers service wide development activities, promotes best practice, and
ensures translation of emerging evidence into high quality clinical care.
Improving Diversity and
Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to
improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all
applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request
to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the
minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted
in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to
the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager -
Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large
acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute
services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a
larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from
three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our
caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred
care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to
work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our
everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise
accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working
within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a
DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check
(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting
Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full list of duties please refer to the attached Job Description document of which includes Key Duties, Clinical, Professional, Communication, Development and Delivery, Leadership, Training, Education and Research.
Key Duties:
To be the Therapy services expert lead in evidenced based and
current Therapy practice and Education.
Develops, oversees and is responsible for ensuring the
organisation and delivery of training, audit and quality assurance within the Therapy
Services.
Develops practice and educational developments and improvements in
line with the service and Trust objectives.
Ensures the service operates within the budgetary constraints allocated
to training and post graduate education and works with the Therapy Service Managers
to identify and deliver high quality training and postgraduate study.
To be responsible for leading with the clinical supervision,
teaching of junior and senior staff within the Therapy services and dependant
on individual speciality.
To provide structured appraisals, formal meetings and informal
support in order to manage and supervise the senior staff regarding clinical
issues.
Design and deliver development activities for Therapy activities
for Therapy staff throughout the service. This will include training
activities, workshops and practice sharing forums
To be a clinical leader within therapy services leading by
example, demonstrating good practice, openness and responsiveness to emerging
evidence and its translation into excellent clinical practice.
Provide guidance and support to therapy teams in all specialist
areas and to support the development of practice within Therapies.
To oversee the therapy student activity in partnership with local
universities.
Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of
practice within Therapies holding responsibility for defined projects.
To ensure regular managerial and clinical problem-solving and
supervision of all clinicians within a structured clinical supervision
framework.
To be responsible, with the other 8a Therapy Service Leads, for
leadership in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance,
evidence based practice and quality assurance within the Therapy Service.
Contributes to strategic planning and service development of the
Therapy service and deputises for Therapy Service Manager and other Therapy
Service Leads when required.
To work alongside the 8a Therapy Service Leads to initiate and
manage clinical service development initiatives, implementing and sustaining
change where necessary.
To utilise expert clinical reasoning and specialist skills to
assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions and to provide specialist
support and advice to other therapy staff whilst maintaining a caseload as an
autonomous practitioner which includes highly complex patients within
speciality area.
To utilise evidence based principles and current best practise
guidelines and ensure that all members of the Therapy service do likewise.
To develop and lead the CPD and other developmental activities and
encourage all members of the Therapy service to do likewise.
To participate in, facilitate or lead, research projects within
the Therapy services and designated clinical area.
To educate the multi-disciplinary team, therapists in the Trust
and therapists nationally (as appropriate) on elements of Occupational Therapy
and Physiotherapy, and raise the profile of the service and Trust.
To work closely with the other members of the multi-disciplinary
team and demonstrate excellent communication skills.
To support the Therapy Managers ensuring that the Therapy services
is responsive to user requirements within the available resources and in
accordance with directorate and departmental plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full list of duties please refer to the attached Job Description document of which includes Key Duties, Clinical, Professional, Communication, Development and Delivery, Leadership, Training, Education and Research.
Key Duties:
To be the Therapy services expert lead in evidenced based and
current Therapy practice and Education.
Develops, oversees and is responsible for ensuring the
organisation and delivery of training, audit and quality assurance within the Therapy
Services.
Develops practice and educational developments and improvements in
line with the service and Trust objectives.
Ensures the service operates within the budgetary constraints allocated
to training and post graduate education and works with the Therapy Service Managers
to identify and deliver high quality training and postgraduate study.
To be responsible for leading with the clinical supervision,
teaching of junior and senior staff within the Therapy services and dependant
on individual speciality.
To provide structured appraisals, formal meetings and informal
support in order to manage and supervise the senior staff regarding clinical
issues.
Design and deliver development activities for Therapy activities
for Therapy staff throughout the service. This will include training
activities, workshops and practice sharing forums
To be a clinical leader within therapy services leading by
example, demonstrating good practice, openness and responsiveness to emerging
evidence and its translation into excellent clinical practice.
Provide guidance and support to therapy teams in all specialist
areas and to support the development of practice within Therapies.
To oversee the therapy student activity in partnership with local
universities.
Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of
practice within Therapies holding responsibility for defined projects.
To ensure regular managerial and clinical problem-solving and
supervision of all clinicians within a structured clinical supervision
framework.
To be responsible, with the other 8a Therapy Service Leads, for
leadership in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance,
evidence based practice and quality assurance within the Therapy Service.
Contributes to strategic planning and service development of the
Therapy service and deputises for Therapy Service Manager and other Therapy
Service Leads when required.
To work alongside the 8a Therapy Service Leads to initiate and
manage clinical service development initiatives, implementing and sustaining
change where necessary.
To utilise expert clinical reasoning and specialist skills to
assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions and to provide specialist
support and advice to other therapy staff whilst maintaining a caseload as an
autonomous practitioner which includes highly complex patients within
speciality area.
To utilise evidence based principles and current best practise
guidelines and ensure that all members of the Therapy service do likewise.
To develop and lead the CPD and other developmental activities and
encourage all members of the Therapy service to do likewise.
To participate in, facilitate or lead, research projects within
the Therapy services and designated clinical area.
To educate the multi-disciplinary team, therapists in the Trust
and therapists nationally (as appropriate) on elements of Occupational Therapy
and Physiotherapy, and raise the profile of the service and Trust.
To work closely with the other members of the multi-disciplinary
team and demonstrate excellent communication skills.
To support the Therapy Managers ensuring that the Therapy services
is responsive to user requirements within the available resources and in
accordance with directorate and departmental plans.
Person Specification
Skills/ Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Highly developed clinical skills and advanced knowledge within the specialist therapy area.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others and manage change effectively.
- Experience of people management, supervision and performance management.
- Thorough understanding of professional, legal and clinical governance responsibilities.
- Ability to analyse and manage complex professional and ethical issues.
- Knowledge and application of audit and survey data to inform service improvement.
- In-depth understanding of current local and national NHS priorities and issues.
- Experience of leading or contributing to clinical audit, research, or guideline and policy development.
Desirable
- Experience contributing to business planning and financial or budget awareness.
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Achieved or working towards a relevant postgraduate qualification at Level 7 (e.g. MSc, PGCert etc.).
- Demonstrate evidence of management and leadership development (e.g. ILM, NHS Leadership Academy, MSc modules, or equivalent).
Desirable
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) or Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience as a senior clinician, including team leadership or management responsibilities.
- Extensive experience working within an acute NHS setting.
- Extensive post-registration experience within the relevant specialty.
- Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development (CPD).
- Experience of staff supervision, appraisal and professional development from different professional backgrounds.
- Demonstrable involvement in service development and change management.
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research and service evaluation.
- Operational management experience, including workforce management.
- Experience of teaching and supporting staff and students.
- Proven ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of liaising with external stakeholders and boundary spanning.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering teaching and lecturing.
- Active participation in research activities.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional, approachable and confident manner.
- Committed, enthusiastic and motivated.
- Demonstrates initiative and resilience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Values-led and aligned with the Trust and therapy service vision and values.
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Willingness and ability to work across multiple sites.
- Flexibility to work across a seven-day service, including participation in on-call and weekend rotas as required.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role.
- Commitment to working in Worcestershire
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Person Specification
Skills/ Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Highly developed clinical skills and advanced knowledge within the specialist therapy area.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others and manage change effectively.
- Experience of people management, supervision and performance management.
- Thorough understanding of professional, legal and clinical governance responsibilities.
- Ability to analyse and manage complex professional and ethical issues.
- Knowledge and application of audit and survey data to inform service improvement.
- In-depth understanding of current local and national NHS priorities and issues.
- Experience of leading or contributing to clinical audit, research, or guideline and policy development.
Desirable
- Experience contributing to business planning and financial or budget awareness.
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Achieved or working towards a relevant postgraduate qualification at Level 7 (e.g. MSc, PGCert etc.).
- Demonstrate evidence of management and leadership development (e.g. ILM, NHS Leadership Academy, MSc modules, or equivalent).
Desirable
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) or Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience as a senior clinician, including team leadership or management responsibilities.
- Extensive experience working within an acute NHS setting.
- Extensive post-registration experience within the relevant specialty.
- Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development (CPD).
- Experience of staff supervision, appraisal and professional development from different professional backgrounds.
- Demonstrable involvement in service development and change management.
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research and service evaluation.
- Operational management experience, including workforce management.
- Experience of teaching and supporting staff and students.
- Proven ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of liaising with external stakeholders and boundary spanning.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering teaching and lecturing.
- Active participation in research activities.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional, approachable and confident manner.
- Committed, enthusiastic and motivated.
- Demonstrates initiative and resilience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Values-led and aligned with the Trust and therapy service vision and values.
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Willingness and ability to work across multiple sites.
- Flexibility to work across a seven-day service, including participation in on-call and weekend rotas as required.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role.
- Commitment to working in Worcestershire
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
