Clinical Lead Therapist (Medical Rehabilitation)

To be the therapy services expert clinician for the acute care and downstream ward areas. To be responsible for the day to day operational management Medical Rehabilitation and Frailty team. To be responsible for the supervision, teaching and day to day line management of more junior staff within a dedicated clinical area. To provide structured appraisals, formal meetings and informal support in order to manage and supervise the senior staff regarding clinical issues. To include regular managerial and clinical problem-solving and supervision of band 7 clinicians within dedicated teams. To be responsible, with the other Inpatient Therapy Clinical Leads, for leadership in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence based practice and quality assurance inpatient therapy services. Contributes to strategic planning and service development of the Inpatient Therapy Service and deputises for other Inpatient Therapy Clinical Leads when required. To work alongside the
Inpatient Therapy Clinical Leads to initiate and manage clinical service development initiatives, implementing and sustaining change where necessary. To utilise expert clinical reasoning and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in your dedicated clinical area and to provide specialist support and advice to other therapy staff whilst maintaining a caseload as an autonomous practitioner which includes highly complex patients. To utilise evidence based principles and current best practise guidelines and ensure that all members of your team do likewise. To participate in CPD and other developmental activities and encourage all members of your team to do likewise. Have the opportunity to participate in, facilitate or lead research projects within therapies and designated clinical areas. To educate the multi-disciplinary team, therapists in the Trust and therapists nationally (as appropriate) on elements of therapy in your designated clinical area, and raise
the profile of the therapy service in your designated clinical area within the service and Trust. To lead on the student, preceptorship and apprenticeship work streams within the trust, and to act as a central point of reference for stake holders both internal and external to the trust. To ensure that the therapy service in the designated clinical area is responsive to user requirements within the available resources and in accordance with directorate and departmental plans. To be responsible for the supervision and teaching of students and more junior therapy staff, and to take an active role in multi-disciplinary teaching sessions within the orthopaedic unit.