Clinical Lead Physiotherapist

6 days ago

Gillingham, Kent, United Kingdom Medway NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Physiotherapy Team Lead to join our team at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our Physiotherapy department, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of physiotherapists and therapy assistants to provide high-quality patient care.

Key Responsibilities

  • To work as part of an integrated therapy team to provide excellent therapy care to children and their families.
  • To ensure timely assessments and interventions for women's and pelvic health, including pre-natal clinics, referrals from pre and post-natal wards, breast care clinics, and further interventions.
  • To work alongside and support the paediatric team lead in inpatient wards and outpatient paediatric follow-up clinics.
  • To provide specialist physiotherapy input to outpatient and follow-up clinics as required.
  • To ensure team members select and refer patients appropriately to other healthcare professionals and therapy services, ensuring planned continuity of care.
  • To assess patients for standard and bespoke aids and appliances, request their provision, and teach patients, carers, and more junior staff in their safe application and use.
  • To participate in physiotherapy and multi-professional working parties developing policy and service changes within the specialist area.
  • To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
  • To train, supervise, and performance manage less senior staff, assistants, and physiotherapy students.
  • To be a source of clinical expertise and advice for less experienced therapists in your team and to assess needs for, plan, and contribute to the delivery of an in-service training programme for your team.
  • To communicate in a highly skilled and effective manner with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of condition.
  • To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent, and have the ability to and support team members to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
  • To undertake individual patient and generic clinical risk assessments and ensure that the highest standards of patient risk assessment are met within your team.

Person Specification

  • Essential:
    • Degree in Physiotherapy
    • Current Health Professions Council registration
    • Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
    • Postgraduate training
    • Knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of pelvic and breast cases demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
    • Awareness of relevant specialist community services
  • Desirable:
    • Broad range of experience at junior and senior level, including highly acute environments with high demand for prioritisation of workloads
    • Experience of responding to demand/prioritising work/managing a caseload
    • On-call competence
    • MDT and collaborative working
    • Experience of clinical education of physiotherapy students
    • Experience in relevant clinical speciality

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and opportunities for professional development and career progression. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive environment, contributing to the delivery of high-quality patient care.

How to Apply

If you are a motivated and experienced physiotherapist looking for a new challenge, please submit your application, including your CV and a covering letter, to [insert contact details].

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