Acting Team Lead Therapist - Surgical

Job overview

Acting Team Lead Therapist - Surgical

Directorate: Cancer and Core clinical services

Care Group:  Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 7

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata

Please note this role is Fixed term/Secondment for 3 months

We are recruiting for a Acting Team Lead Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

As an Acting Team Lead Therapist, you will need to be motivated and enthusiastic with a broad range of acute hospital experience, demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to contribute to service development.

You will get an opportunity to develop your managerial and supervisory skills providing supervision to rotational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and Students. CPD is encouraged and supported.

We offer in-service training, peer groups, robust mandatory training in addition to many interesting courses run by the trust. External training is also supported where appropriate. The team provides robust Speciality specific training and upskills team members through area specific competencies.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be jointly managing alongside a Physiotherapy counterpart  an integrated team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist and Therapy assistants

Your team will be working as part of an MDT including therapy staff, nurses, CSW's, Doctors and more to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality of care.