Therapies Team Lead - Trauma and Orthopaedics

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service as Team Lead.

This role involves both clinical and operational responsibilities.  The successful candidate will provide a high quality, evidence based therapy service to patients admitted to hospital on a trauma and/or orthopaedic pathway. This will include, but is not exclusive to, trauma, major trauma, elective surgery, fractured neck of femur and amputee patients.

The Team Leader will provide highly specialist Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapist intervention for a caseload of Orthopaedic patients and and offer advanced clinical reasoning within the specialism to support complex decision making.

The Team Leader will be responsible for developing, managing, planning and delivering the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy service with support from the Clinical Lead and Clinical Therapy Manager.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dynamic individual to lead the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy team to provide clinical expertise and to deliver a high quality effective service in line with best practice.

The successful candidate  will operationally manage the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy service and clinically lead the team.

The Team Lead will have a clinical role; to receive referrals, undertake full assessment and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programmes for patients using advanced clinical reasoning and a variety of highly specialist skills to rehabilitate and safely discharge their patients.

In addition, the Team Lead will have daily operational responsibility in managing a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants.  In this realm you will be responsible for supervision, education and training and will have opportunity  to develop the current service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To lead a team of therapists to provide a high quality, evidence based, up to date Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy service.

To be operationally responsible for the day-to-day management of this team ensuring they have regular supervision, PDR and are compliant with Mandatory training.

To lead service developments including policies, education and training of other health professionals on matters of rehabilitation.

To work as a member of the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and enhance the Therapy services for this rehabilitation.