Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges.
We’re looking for a therapy team lead to join our existing multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you’re motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
You’ll have operational leadership for: occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants/assistant practitioners, ensuring high standards of therapeutic interventions are delivered to our patient population, alongside maintaining performance in line with CQC standards. Thisincludes provision/oversight of audits, staff development, sickness management etc. There may also be a clinical element to the role dependant upon capacity and service delivery needs.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long term conditions, Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL) – working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.
As a leader there are many development opportunities such as ICRAS succession plan including management modules, ARRIVE training, Edward Jenner and much more.
Shortlisting date - 17 June 2024
Proposed Interview date - 28 June 2024
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for a therapy team lead to join our existing multidisciplinary
teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you’re motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
You’ll have operational leadership for: occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants/assistant practitioners, ensuring high standards of therapeutic interventions are delivered to our patient population, alongside maintaining performance in line with CQC standards. This includes provision/oversight of audits, staff development, sickness management etc. There may also be a clinical element to the role dependant upon capacity and service delivery needs.
You’ll be part of a very supportive team - senior nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrist, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long term conditions, Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL) – working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Team Lead responsibility for a cohort of staff - occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants
Responsibility for service development through audits, overseeing training and staff development
Operational and leadership of sickness management, staff/team performance, audits, datix, annual leave, team meetings, staff health and well being etc
Service/team development initiatives
Oversee recruitment and retention
What we offer as a Service to support all staff within the team
1. A robust clinical support structure with regular clinical supervision and performance development review
2. Team Lead meeting
3. Opportunities to lead on service delivery, audits, in-service training, etc.
4. Monthly peer group support
5. An innovative NHS trust, committed to investing in its future and its staff
6. Opportunities to supervise junior staff, develop peers, students and therapy assistants
7. Be part of the development of services at the centre of the future direction of healthcare
8. Structured career progression, support and opportunities
9. Flexible working patterns and our commitment to a good work life balance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Degree or equivalent qualification
11. Appropriate prescriber
12. Evidence of CPD/Short courses
13. Registration with relevant professional body
Desirable criteria
14. First Line management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
15. Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
16. Experience of management and clinical leadership
17. Experience of successful multi-agency working
18. Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
19. Understanding how other agencies work
20. Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
Skills
Essential criteria
21. Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
22. Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
23. IT literate
24. Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
25. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
26. Ability to understand and analyse complex data
27. Risk assessment skills
28. Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
29. Self-management and motivation skills
30. Research skills
31. Report writing skills
32. Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
33. Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable criteria
34. Research skills
Values
Essential criteria
35. Continuous Improvement
36. Accountability
37. Respectfulness
38. Enthusiasm
39. Support
40. High professional standards
41. Responsive to service users
42. Engaging leadership style
43. Strong customer service belief
44. Transparency and honesty
45. Discreet
46. Change oriented
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