Team Lead Therapist - Enablement

Job overview

Team Lead Therapist - Enablement

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: Band 7

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a 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

Undertake a team lead role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating a specialist Therapies Service, including specialist outpatient and follow up clinics as required.

As an autonomous practitioner to take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy treatment indicated.

Seven day working patterns apply. Involvement in the hospital wide physiotherapy on-call emergency physiotherapy service is required for Physiotherapy Team Leads.

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

To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patents where appropriate.

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.

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 or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.