Community Therapy Team Lead

7 months ago


Chichester, United Kingdom Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Full time

It’s an exciting time to join our Community Therapy Teams. If you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced individual looking to be part of a supportive team and use your expert skills to provide excellent community care, we’d love to hear from you. Our aim is to maximise opportunities for the people living in our communities to be as independent as possible in what matters to them, living full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, and the workplace.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Team Lead in our West Community Therapy Team to come and work in the service delivering the aim above via holistic, personalised, therapeutic care. You will work as part of well-established wider Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across our local communities, where you will provide support across both proactive community rehabilitation and urgent care pathways. Our teams work flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.

Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an ideal opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service.

In this role, you will provide operational leadership, ensuring effective governance and support for staff working within the service. Operational duties will include overseeing the service budget, safe rostering of your staff to cover service demand and performing line management duties in line with Trust policy.

Working with the clinical leads, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. This will include reporting and managing incidents, and analysing data to monitor performance. You will develop key partnerships with colleagues to ensure effective working of the whole system.

You will have varied communication styles for strong leadership and multidisciplinary working. It will be your responsibility to ensure staff feel informed and to represent your team at a senior management level. You will be report directly to the Clinical Service Manager who will support you in your role.

Your experience of confident leadership while promoting a team philosophy of supporting reablement focused care will help you excel in this role. We will support you to develop your leadership skills through internal and external programmes.

Why work for us?

positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly

Rated ‘Good’ with 'Outstanding’ features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast

A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients’ homes and in our community hospitals

Excellent training and development opportunities

Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay

Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.

Supportive team environments

Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton

Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks

Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces

Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.

Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.

If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Clinical Service manager, Kate woods 07747717175


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