Clinical Team Lead - Surgery/Respiratory

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist who has an interest in leadership, management and has existing experience in respiratory and surgical care to join our Surgery team as a Clinical Team Lead.

The successful candidate will work alongside the current Team Leads and will be responsible for combined clinical leadership and management of the team. There will be the opportunity to work across the Respiratory, Surgery, Vascular wards and the Intensive Care and High Dependency units ensuring excellent clinical care. The role will allow experience of quality improvement initiatives, service development projects and audit as well as progression of leadership skills.

You will need to demonstrate advanced planning, organisation, and communication skills, managing the team on a daily basis but also expert clinical skills.

It is expected that the successful candidate will contribute to 7-day services and the Physio on call rota (as appropriate).

Main duties

The post holder will organise and oversee the running of the Surgery team, ensuring appropriate skill mix and adequate staffing to meet the clinical demand.The role will be accountable for the production of the rosters, supervision, appraisals, job plans, and staff support and development.The role will be responsible for team and department service improvements, recruitment, development of procedures and audit.

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Main duties of the job

The post holder will be predominantly clinical to provide high standards of therapeutic assessment and treatment working as an autonomous practitioner on all surgical wards.

The post holder will support the immediate therapy team on surgery and will oversee the quality of the clinical caseload across the team, assisting the partner Clinical Team Lead to provide the optimal staffing, and skill mix to match capacity and demand, whilst working closely with therapy staff and the MDT to provide the best patient care and experience.

This post will be responsible for providing staff development and training programmes. The post holder will complete supervision, appraisals, staff competencies and assist with students, induction and training.

The post holder will also deputise for the partner Clinical Team Lead during absence to ensure efficient day to day running of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.