Clinical Lead OT/PT Barnet Wheelchair Service
We are looking for a Clinical Lead to lead our small and friendly Clinical team. The Services will run from our clinic location, as well as operating from schools and other community locations to further facilitate MDT working.
The Clinical Lead will be supported by members of our Senior Clinical Management Team, and will form part of our national Clinical Lead Group, who have a weekly meeting for information sharing and peer support. The service is lead by the Clinical Director who is a member of the Board and ensures that Ross Care services are clinically lead and operate to the highest standards of clinical practice and safety.
The Clinical Lead will manage the local team, working closely with Operational colleagues and will carry a small complex caseload, bringing clinical expertise in key areas of postural management, pressure care and complex seating/mobility equipment.
We would be delighted to have a chat with you to discuss the role, flexibilities offered and the experience you can bring to the team.
Main duties of the job
This role will provide leadership to the team, developing both new staff and the service itself.
This exciting role offers opportunities to build contact with other services, develop service user engagement, and engage with other Ross Care managers, from both clinical and operational service and repair teams. Senior managers will provide close support, and there will be regular meetings with the Clinical Director in addition to Clinical Supervision.
This role is an ideal combination of a small complex caseload and management duties. The post offers an opportunity to utilise existing management experience and build new skills, and experience of previous wheelchair provision is essential.
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and expertise to the wheelchair service clinical team and other wheelchair service team members, from a background of Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy. The post holder will be required to run clinics in Tameside and Oldham as well as Wigan Wheelchair Services and provide clinical leadership in both sites.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
- Demonstrate strategies for organising own workload.
- Demonstrate a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet competing priorities.
- Demonstrate strategies for managing waiting lists.
- Demonstrate and provide evidence of skill development and provide examples of practice where key skills have been applied.
- Confident in the use of IT with strong skills in Microsoft Office
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal; positive interpersonal skills with an ability to community appropriately with colleagues, other professionals, carers and service users.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information in written and verbal forms to service users, other professionals and in-house staff.
- Knowledge of a wide range of medical conditions (eg. respiratory, neuro, orthopaedic), their management and implications for wheelchair prescription or other intervention.
- Effective strategies to cope with a variety of distressing situations, including challenging behaviour from service users, other stakeholders and staff.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Demonstrate understanding of risk assessment and management in all aspects of the work environment and service provision.
- Demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding, including how to identify potential safeguarding situations, how to report them internally and ensure action within the MDT.
- Knowledge of legal issues (eg. data protection, child protection, health and safety, vulnerable adults, human rights etc).
- Demonstrate an understanding of health and safety responsibilities and compliance.
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance requirements
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of moving and handling techniques and procedures.
- Understanding of information governance and data protection issues.
Qualifications
- BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
- State registration with the HCPC
- DBS Clearance
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Member of relevant special interest group, eg. PMG
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience working with patients who have long-term or complex medical conditions
- Previous experience of wheelchair provision
- Experience of team leadership, management and positive role modelling
- Experience of managing and supervising junior staff
- Experience of managing a budget
- Experience of working within the NHS
Additional
- Full driving licence and a willingness to drive Ross Care/ own vehicles
- An ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, such as weather, exposure to unpleasant environments, bodily fluids, pets and other unspecified hazards
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.
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