Specialist Therapist / Team Lead

The role is for 37.5 hours per week working at the North West Centre of excellence for orthopaedics. The role will primarily involve working Monday - Friday, with some weekend working involved.
You will be providing management and rehabilitation for patients who have undergone both routine and complex elective orthopaedic procedures. This role will also include seeing trauma patients at RAEI as service need requires.
You will provide both clinical and developmental leadership to a dedicated team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists and therapy assistants, as well as leading on projects to enhance and develop the service.
If you are seeking a new opportunity to develop your career then this role is definitely for you!
Please note this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received.
Evidence of qualifications will be requested for interview., As clinical and team lead you will be required to work closely with other members of the MDT including Orthopaedic Consultants, Matrons, Ward Managers and nursing staff.
You will work both clinically and non-clinically, overseeing training and development for the team. Experience of delivering training and supervision of staff/students are essential.
You will be involved in rostering for the 7 day service and recruitment and selection of the inpatient team on both elective and trauma sites.
You will need to be enthusiastic, forward thinking and have a problem-solving approach to patient management. The ability to work within a fast paced and pressured environment is essential, along with having excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You will need to have a strong vision and direction for the service and be able to develop and support other team members through change.

Working for our organisation
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
On-Call
Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational., Key results from the job holder
+ To provide clinical leadership for a designated area of work and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time.
To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into the work of the team.
To establish priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that they remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole.
To ensure excellent standards of evidence based care are delivered in specialist area of responsibility.
Provide day to day management for designated staff.
Planning and Organisational Duties
+ To be responsible for a designated area of work, as agreed with the Therapy Lead/Clinical Lead, and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patients management and use of time.
+ To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole.
+ To be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available.
+ To be responsible for ordering, monitoring and maintaining equipment used in carrying out therapy duties, and to adhere to departmental policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through, teaching, training and supervision of practice.
+ To deputise for the Therapy Lead/Clinical Lead in terms of operational issues as required.
+ To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in form of reports and letters.
+ To be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the therapy department.
+ To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing and updating as appropriate.
+ To be actively involved in the recruitment and selection of lower grade staff.
+ To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work.
+ To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraise.
+ To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with Therapy Lead/Clinical Lead. Use information gained to make recommendations for change.
+ To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation
+ To undertake any other duties as considered appropriate by the Therapy Lead/Clinical Lead for MSK.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
+ To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure high standards of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
+ Post holders are required to work independently, within broad clinical and professional guidelines. Work is supervised rather than managed and this supervision may be provided by peers who may be internal or external to the organisation
+ To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.
+ To produce informative and detailed information for out of Trust patient transfers for continuing physiotherapy management.
+ To deliver the physiotherapy element of care for patients within the orthopaedic units, and on occasions to deliver appropriate elements of care normally undertaken by medical, nursing or other therapy colleagues.
+ To represent the Trust externally (locally and regionally) regarding physiotherapy services provided to patients within the speciality.
+ To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
+ To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
+ To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients.
+ To participate in the development of policy and practice changes within the musculoskeletal and Therapy services which will impact on service users.
+ To communicate complex patient-related information (as well as non-patient information) effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service.
+ To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Use communication skills such as persuasion, motivation explanation to encourage patients to undertake their management programme.
+ To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, fear etc.
+ To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
Responsibility for Human Resources
+ Provide day to day supervision, management and development for designated staff,
+ To work with Team Leaders within the Therapy service to ensure smooth running of the overall service.
+ To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and personal development plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation
+ To accept appropriate responsibility for any tasks delegated to less senior qualified or unqualified staff.
+ To ensure that designated staff implement policy and service development changes.
+ To work with the Therapy Lead/Clinical Lead and other staff in developing the strategic and operational management of the service.
Responsibility for Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 - the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Responsibility for Teaching
+ To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives,
carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
+ To provide specialist and highly specialist advice to physiotherapy colleagues working within other clinical areas (outpatients departments, sub-acute sites and other in-patient specialities etc) re: patients with upper limb conditions.
+ To provide specialist advice, teaching and training, including presentation to other members of the IDT/MDT regarding the physical and medical management of patients with upper and lower limb conditions.
+ To educate, supervise and performance manage more junior staff, trainee assistant practitioners, physiotherapy assistants and students. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation.
+ To educate, supervise and performance manage via the use of competencies qualified and unqualified nursing staff, in specific areas of physiotherapy management.