Physiotherapy Team Lead

**Physiotherapy Team Lead**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- Physiotherapy Lead
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-526**Site**
- Liskeard Community Hospital
- **Town**
- Liskeard
- **Salary**
- £41,659 - £47,672 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 18/04/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting post for a Physiotherapy leader committed to integrated working.

The East Integrated Rehab team provide services across two primary care networks (PCN) and two community hospitals in the area.

This post is central to fostering an effective integrated multi-disciplinary approach to meet the local health needs and the policy priority of developing services closer to home. The successful applicant will work closely with the East Occupational Therapy Lead and the other East Team Leads to develop integrated working that is aligned around PCNs.

**Main duties of the job**:
To lead and manage the operational services of the Community Rehabilitation and Inpatient Physiotherapy teams in East Cornwall, considering local health needs and the policy priority of developing services closer to home. - Responsible for the delivery and maintenance of a high standard physiotherapy service including complex assessments, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients, carers and affiliated services. - Responsible for creating an effective, integrated multi-disciplinary approach within the locality teams. - To ensure best practice guidelines and performance standards are met while meeting service targets. - To be an autonomous practitioner responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with highly complex health and social care needs. - To provide developmental leadership and management to all staff within the locality. - To participate in the planning, development, and evaluation of therapy services, holding responsibility for defined projects. - Provide support to Integrated Community Manager (ICM), to accept delegated responsibilities for specific tasks. - The post holder will work alongside existing therapy team leads in North and East to influence and develop the future vision for therapy.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists