Lead Therapist

The role of the Intermediate Care Service is to provide efficient and effective patient focused care to all service users within primary and secondary care settings. This seamless provision ensures equity of service, patient choice and high standards of personalized care.

The role of the Intermediate Care Service is to provide specialised rehabilitation to patients within interim 24hr bedded settings, facilitating smooth transfer from Acute and Community Hospital settings. To assist patients to achieve their optimal level of independence and integrate back into their communities with the appropriate level of support for them and their carers. To prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and promote a supported discharge from hospital as early as is appropriate and safe. To provide high quality multi-disciplinary (MDT) assessment and treatment, advice/support and / or referral onto other agencies. The referrals will predominantly be from both the Acute and Community Hospitals, but where appropriate from community settings where is has been recognised that a patient needs to step up into a service such as the Intermediate Care Service to prevent an admission to the Acute Trust.

Base/location to be negotiated at interview.

Successful applicants from these posts maybe required to move dept if needed due to winter funding requirements.

As a senior Therapist within a multi-disciplinary team, you will work with other health and social care professionals to develop the ethos of multi-disciplinary, integrated care and seamless services ensuring that patient care is delivered to the highest possible standard.

**As the Lead Therapist the post holder will be responsible for**:

- Providing highly specialist clinical input to the discharge planning of interim bedded inpatients, demonstrating advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs
- Leadership and development of the Intermediate Care Service
- Actively managing and supporting the development of individuals and the team through appraisal, personal development planning, coaching and mentoring
- Provide professional assurance and quality governance
- Leading on the implementation of clinical protocols / pathways in identified service lines
- Supporting the service in its implementation of clinical effectiveness programs by taking part in research and audit projects, leading on key aspects when identified as appropriate; Including leading on the collection and distribution of D2A data.
- Provide strategic clinical leadership using the most up to date and evidence based theory
- Make a contribution to training, teaching and supervision of colleagues

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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