Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
Job Description
Job summary
Ready to take the next step in your physiotherapy career? We're offering an exciting fixed-term Clinical Lead opportunity within our Children's Therapy Service in West Lancashire -- and we're looking for someone who brings energy, curiosity and a passion for improving care.
If you're keen to explore new ways of working, bring your ideas for service improvement to life, and support colleagues to deliver the highest standard of person-centred care for children and families, this role could be the perfect fit.
Based at Milestones, our purpose-built children's physical therapy centre in Ormskirk hospital, our service supports children and young people aged 0-19 across a range of specialist pathways including MSK, Early Years, Coordination Difficulties and Long-Term Conditions. We are looking for an experienced Children's Physiotherapist with strong clinical skills who can work autonomously in community settings as the postholder will manage a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs. The service delivers responsive and flexible physiotherapy assessment and intervention for children across the West Lancashire footprint and therefore you will be expected to travel on a daily basis from our base to a range of community settings including mainstream and special schools, nurseries, family hubs and children's homes, often in rural areas across.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you'll also provide expert clinical guidance and supervision, lead on specialist pathways, and help shape the future of the service. You will play a key role in shaping and transforming the service in line with best practice, upholding Trust values and ensuring excellent service-user experience.
Whether you already have leadership experience or are eager to develop this aspect of your practice, we will support you. An induction and handover from the current Clinical Leads will ensure a smooth transition, and relevant support will be provided to help you thrive in the role.We have a strong clinical and professional leadership team who are invested in supporting and developing staff backed up by the Trust's commitment towards staff well-being. We, in turn, would welcome applicants with innovative and creative ideas, who will demonstrate a keen willingness to support the continued development of themselves and others as well as the service.
About us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- Current Professional Registration with HCPC
- Evidence of formal training / self study / specialist experience to Masters level equivalent
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
- Extensive knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs
- Extensive knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes and their applications for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
- Extensive critical understanding & knowledge of research, evidence-based practice and current issues relating to client group
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area
- Extensive experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community settings
- Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ormskirk District and General Hospital
Ormskirk
L39 4QX
United Kingdom
