Team Lead Physiotherapist - Paediatrics inGillingham inGillingham PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
Medway NHS Foundation Trust r4SHtV4X
The Medway NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Team Lead Physiotherapist for their Paediatric department in Gillingham. This role, part of the Cancer and Core Clinical Services division, is a Band 7 position with a salary range of £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata). Responsibilities include leading a multidisciplinary therapy team, delivering high-quality care and interventions for children aged 0-18 with various health conditions, including musculoskeletal, respiratory, oncology, and mental health issues.
Key duties involve conducting comprehensive assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, and providing specialist physiotherapy input in outpatient clinics. The role also includes clinical and management responsibilities across women's and pelvic health specialties. Candidates should embrace the Trust’s values of Boldness, Inclusion, and Collaboration.
Training and professional development opportunities will be provided, and a commitment to diversity and fair recruitment practices is emphasized. Applications are encouraged from those who aspire to contribute positively to the team's future.
Team Lead Physiotherapist - Paediatrics
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Interview date: Monday 18th November 2024
We are recruiting for a Team Lead Physiotherapist who sharesour ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
To work as part of an integrated therapy team, consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants in order to provide excellent therapy care to children and their families
To ensure that you provide timely assessments and interventions to a variety of patient's aged 0-18 across paediatrics, including baby MSK clinics, referrals from maternity, CF clinic, and respiratory outpatients by consultant referral, inpatient oncology, respiratory, orthopaedic, rheumatology and mental health patients
You will be provided with training and development opportunities to support your progress in this specialist role. Please note that this role will also involve some clinical work and management across the women's and pelvic health speciality.
With strong leadership the day to day experience for our teams is a great one, staff are valued, excellent quality care is provided and the passion for continuous improvement is high.
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.
About us
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
To provide the specialist physiotherapy input to any outpatient and follow up clinics as required
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