Professional lead physiotherapist

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Part time 15 hours per week

Base: Derby City base TBC

Working for a Trust like Derbyshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust is exceptional in so many ways. Here are a few of those reasons:

• Up to 33 days' holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Join one of the best pension schemes in the UK
• Health Service discounts
• Staff health & wellbeing programme
• Free parking at all of our sites
• A fair mileage scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Supported study leave

Main duties of the job

Professional Lead Physiotherapist -

1) To provide professional leadership within area of responsibility - influencing national policy and strategies and holding professional responsibility for establishing, ensuringand governing standards.2) The post holder will be an accountable source for policy level thinking within their own profession to support the on-going development of professional practice and development of staff.3) Acting as the link between DHCFT and the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy CSP professional body, the post holder will primarily be responsible for addressing the professional issues relevant to, and affecting, their area of responsibility in and DHCFT.4) To ensure the overarching guidance to ensure safe, effective, patient centered and high quality direct patient care which is consistent and equitable across all care groups in DHCFT.5) To be accountable for the governance and oversight of patient care for the Physiotherapy profession within area of responsibility, clinical governance, equity, implementation of evidence based practice, continuous quality improvement, research and development.6) Will also contribute to the collective - AHP perspective through working in partnership within the AHP Committee group

About us

Derbyshire HealthCare Foundation Trust has been rated as 'good ' by the Care Quality Commission we have achieved this by providing high quality patient care, within an inclusive organisation that works together and shows care and compassion for each other.

DHCFT is an NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it. Our Vision is to make a positive difference in people's lives by improving health and wellbeing. Our objectives are to provide great care, be a great place to work and best use of money. Our values of People first, Respect, Honesty, & Do your best are why our workforce chose to work for the NHS & DHCFT.

Job description

Job responsibilities

So now lets talk about you

1. Are you a registered physiotherapist

2. Are you educated to degree level or hold demonstrable equivalent experience

3. Are you educated to Post Graduate level study or demonstrable equivalent experience

4. Do you have a proven track record in service user and carer engagement and involvement in service development

5. Do you hold have exceptional leadership skills and proven ability to motivate others

6. Do you have a proven track record in working across systems and with partners to deliver improved services

7. Are you a keen, compassionate, dynamic practitioner with experience of working within mental health, learning disability or child health?

8. Are you passionate about our services and ensuring safe and effective interventions are delivered to service users, their families and other professionals.

9. Are you an experienced clinician who empowers others and is able to support a culture of change within services.

Are you a great communicator who strives to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care

Are you able to work effectively within a team and with our partner agencies

If so here are the Next Steps:

Submit your application via this advert and our recruitment team will support your through your application.

If you wish to discuss the role/service further then please contact me (Becki Priest, Deputy Director of Practice & Transformation and AHP lead) via email becki.priest@nhs.net or call me on 07584 855825

As an employee it will be your responsibility to ensure that your behaviour and values reflect those set out in the DHCFT Way outlined on our website and in the additional information provided

We Look forward to hearing from you.

Person Specification

attainment and quals

Essential

• HPC registration
• physiotherapy leadership experience
• CSP membership
• leadership training or equivalent experience
• oExperience of working as a specialist clinical physiotherapist

Desirable

• Needs to be a member of professional network groups
• has masters level qualification or working towards / willing to undertake

Skills

Essential

• oProven facilitation skills in relation to workforce issues and complaints
• oHigh level of communication skills able to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff or members of the public
• oAbility to adopt necessary leadership styles depending on the context. Effective negotiation and influencing skills.

Desirable

• oProject management skills/experience
• oExperience if leading Audits against National Policy Guidance

Knowledge

Essential

• oExperience of leading a lead with accountability
• oExperience of leading a team through transformation
• oExperience of leading complaints resolution
• oExperience delivering supervision - professional related
• oDealing with complaints
• oExperience of recruitment

Desirable

• oAbility to demonstrate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• oExperience in managing budgets
• oKnowledge of Learning Disabilities , Mental Health, Paediatrics
• oWorkforce planning and development
• oLinks with professional networks

other

Essential

• oExperience in representing physiotherapy in wider stakeholder engagement Able to travel from various bases as required by the post

Desirable

• oExperience in providing organisational change management

values

Essential

• oRespect oHonesty oPeople First oDo your best

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

kingsway

kingsway hospital

Derby

DE22 3LZ

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383-SPE-4862-24