Principal Therapist - Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service Lead
Are you an experienced clinician who is:
Ambitious to improve services?
- Passionate to teach and inspire?
- Seeking freedom to lead?
- Innovative and driven?
Sandwell & West Birmingham are seeking to recruit an experienced Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist with well-developed leadership, communication and engagement skills as the Service Lead within our Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service. This Service Lead role includes both clinical and service leadership & development responsibilities so is ideally suited to someone with advanced clinical skills looking to retain a clinical portfolio whilst also having the opportunity to lead and influence service change.
This exciting role could either provide a new opportunity for an existing Service Lead, or an opportunity for an individual looking to work at this level who is keen to broaden their experience and scope within the specialty of Trauma & Orthopaedics.
Main duties of the job
As an integrated Acute and Community Trust, this role will be acute service facing, based at our new acute hospital site - Midland Metropolitan University Hospital - but with a focus on development of services and pathways to provide excellence in clinical care across the patient journey.
The successful candidate will have a clinical background in Trauma and Orthopaedics and the ability to work at an advanced clinical level, alongside a proven track record of leading for quality improvement including the ability to develop multidisciplinary working relationships to enable and lead delivery of change at pace whilst strengthening quality and safety standards.
Alongside relevant clinical experience, applicants will demonstrate excellent communication and critical thinking skills, with strong leadership skills, including in challenging situations. The successful applicant will also be passionate about the value of our AHP workforce and in continuing to develop our workforce of highly engaged and skilled therapists and therapy support workers.
The successful candidate will also be an integral part of the multidisciplinary iBeds Directorate Senior Leadership Team, with a chance to develop operational and service development skills and to influence improvements across multiple clinical areas.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
We have three strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
As a team, we live our core Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. Our Trust takes a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where independence and early intervention is promoted and encouraged using 'What matters to you?' principles. We are looking for a suitably aspirational candidate who will share these core values and behaviours. Following appointment, ongoing support and coaching, with a variety of learning opportunities and a detailed induction and handover will be provided.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job including main responsibilities.
Candidates interested in the role are encouraged to make contact and/or arrange an informal visit to find out more about this exciting new post and the upcoming opportunities it presents.
Person Specification Qualifications
- Degree in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Post-graduate education to Masters level or equivalent
- Membership of the CSP/RCOT
Experience
- Extensive post graduate experience across a range of specialties including experience within either a trauma & orthopaedic therapy setting
- Sufficient experience at Team Lead level (Band 7) to demonstrate knowledge and skills required for the post
- Evidence of having delivered change for improvement
- Working with Higher education institutes
- Developing policy and clinical protocols
- Education of therapy staff and the MDT
- Involvement in clinical audit, research and quality improvement projects
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.