Community Physio Team Lead

There is a great opportunity for band 7 within the community physiotherapy team. This is to cover mat leave for an approximate 9 month period. This will be 29.5 hours per week cover.

The community team of West Essex is part of the wider Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System, supporting out of hospital care for West Essex residents.

To provide leadership to a multidisciplinary Integrated community care team to deliver patient centred care to people with a focus on rehabilitation. This will involve helping patients to engage as independently as possible in activities which enhance their health & wellbeing. Interventions will be carried out within patients own homes, 24 hour care facilities and clinics.

To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality person-centred services. day to day management and leadership of therapy and assistant practitioners. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills. Flexible working is required, as at times you will be expected to work across sites in our other West Essex localities depending on service needs.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with other health care professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver excellent standards of patient care for patients requiring support in planned care.

Clinical responsibilities
- To act as a senior decision maker to guide and support staff with complex patient cases.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatment and care and/or rehabilitation programs to people, promoting independence and autonomy; working within a multidisciplinary team.
- Provide expert clinical holistic assessment and evidence based pro-active and reactive health care interventions to support patients and their carers to achieve maximum health welling and independence
- To participate in duty clinician cover, triage and MDT/allocation meetings where clinically appropriate.
- To act at all times as an advocate for service users, carers and relatives.
- To be responsible for standards of care within the service area; to evaluate clinical care and develop actions with relevant line managers where required.
- To have overall responsibility for caseload management through continual monitoring and data collection.
- To maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate that practice is up to date and evidence based through regular management and clinical supervision/mentorship.
- Day to day management and leadership of therapy and at time nursing practitioners and other staff in the multi-disciplinary team. To provide senior clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills.
- To delegate day to day clinical duties appropriately to other team members.
- To inspire and demonstrate leadership qualities through excellent communication skills, delivery of specialist advice, working with others, demonstration of personal qualities and continuous service improvement.
- Act as a role model, provide professional leadership to the team and promote the Trust values.
- Actively participate in identifying training needs of self and others and participate in appropriate training programmes.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

**Communication Skills**:
Using verbal, non-verbal and written communication tools ensure that patients and carers have an understanding of their condition and the role and aims of Therapy in relation to this.
To be confident in their own diagnosis and be able to communicate that effectively to others (including medical do