Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge?
We are inviting applicants to join us to lead the Children's Physiotherapy Team. You will be accountable for the safe and high quality delivery of the service and the performance of the team through effective and compassionate line management and leadership.
The role involves working in partnership with parents, children, educators and colleagues throughout health, to deliver service innovation and improvement and includes the opportunity to continue your clinical career, providing clinical care for children as an expert generalist therapist or in your clinical speciality.
As a successful applicant you will have highly developed clinical decision-making skills to support children's assessment and care management. You will be confident in working in a flexible and responsive way.
We will support you through supervision , an amazing team and peer support across our three therapies. We look forward to supporting you on the next career step.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder offers dynamic leadership and management of the Paediatric Physiotherapy team to ensure a responsive, efficient and effective service of a high quality.
The post holder will seek innovative and creative methods of utilising the resources available while remaining focussed on service development.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Physiotherapy registration with the Health Professions Council.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development including specialist training and practical experience to postgraduate diploma level or equivalent.
- Health Service management within a health or care setting through a combination of in depth experience and training.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post graduate experience of which at least a significant proportion of the time has been in Community Paediatric Physiotherapy.
- Successful track record as an effective leader/team manager in health, social care or related environment.
- Demonstrate innovation and creativity to redesign and develop services.
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary/multi agency health care environment.
- Experience of working in a variety of settings.
- Experience of managing and delivering in a crisis.
- Experience of planning and providing clinical care to children and young people with physiotherapy needs.
- Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve the patient/users and families experience.
- Experience of managing resource, planning work and delegating duties within a team.
- Demonstrate development, implementation and delivery of successful service improvements informed by service users.
- Experience of building successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of the processes involved in developing integrated care pathways, clinical guidelines, governance systems and risk management acquired through training and proven experience.
- Good working knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
- Demonstrate knowledge of national policies, procedures and standards relevant to Children's Physiotherapy.
- Knowledge of benchmarking and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care, with an ability to evaluate clinical practice.
- A broad knowledge in a number of areas e.g. health /social care management, financial management, performance management.
- Some broad understanding/insight of NHS legislation, employment and health and safety legislation and national standards.
- Transfer acquired leadership and management skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation.
- Management and leadership skills that enable successful change management to occur.
- Demonstrate political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration skills used within a clinical setting and with external teams, organisations and partners.
- Some evidence of project management skills.
- Skills to manage day to day complaints pro actively.
- Communicate and translate clear vision and sense of direction for the team.
Other
Essential
- Must meet the travel requirements of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Physiotherapy registration with the Health Professions Council.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development including specialist training and practical experience to postgraduate diploma level or equivalent.
- Health Service management within a health or care setting through a combination of in depth experience and training.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post graduate experience of which at least a significant proportion of the time has been in Community Paediatric Physiotherapy.
- Successful track record as an effective leader/team manager in health, social care or related environment.
- Demonstrate innovation and creativity to redesign and develop services.
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary/multi agency health care environment.
- Experience of working in a variety of settings.
- Experience of managing and delivering in a crisis.
- Experience of planning and providing clinical care to children and young people with physiotherapy needs.
- Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve the patient/users and families experience.
- Experience of managing resource, planning work and delegating duties within a team.
- Demonstrate development, implementation and delivery of successful service improvements informed by service users.
- Experience of building successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of the processes involved in developing integrated care pathways, clinical guidelines, governance systems and risk management acquired through training and proven experience.
- Good working knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
- Demonstrate knowledge of national policies, procedures and standards relevant to Children's Physiotherapy.
- Knowledge of benchmarking and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care, with an ability to evaluate clinical practice.
- A broad knowledge in a number of areas e.g. health /social care management, financial management, performance management.
- Some broad understanding/insight of NHS legislation, employment and health and safety legislation and national standards.
- Transfer acquired leadership and management skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation.
- Management and leadership skills that enable successful change management to occur.
- Demonstrate political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration skills used within a clinical setting and with external teams, organisations and partners.
- Some evidence of project management skills.
- Skills to manage day to day complaints pro actively.
- Communicate and translate clear vision and sense of direction for the team.
Other
Essential
- Must meet the travel requirements of the post.
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).
