Clinical Lead Therapist - #192416

Are you ready to take the next exciting step in your career?

Do you want to lead a patient centred, forward thinking team in a dynamic, supportive environment?

We’re thrilled to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Band 8a Clinical lead therapist to join our Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service (HICAF). If you're passionate about promoting independence, delivering person-centred care, and making a real difference in people’s lives, we want to hear from you!

We’ve been on an inspiring journey to transform intermediate care in Halton, bringing together health and social care into one integrated, collaborative team. You’ll be part of a service that truly puts people first, working in their own homes or in discharge-to-assess units, following a “home first” approach.

You’ll have opportunity to utilise your leadership and advanced clinical skills working across key areas of our service including:

• Single Point of Access
• Community Rapid Response / Frailty Team
• Reablement Team
• Intermediate Care Unit

Join our vibrant multidisciplinary team including GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Therapy & Nursing Assistants, Dieticians, Care Support Workers, and Administrators.

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do.

• To utilise highly developed, expert, specialist clinical skills in the assessment and treatment of your own caseload of patients with complex conditions.
• To develop specialised programmes of care, individually and/or in groups, as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a variety of settings.
• To develop and use skills outside the normal scope of therapy/nursing practice to support patient care.
• To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist advice, taking an active role in both the operational decision making with the clinical team manager, providing support to the Principal Lead for the Service
• To ensure efficient and effective use of resources and the development and maintenance of the highest standards of patient care and delivery.
• To lead in the development of the therapy service in line with the requirements of the commissioners.
• To take the clinical lead in this specialist area of work, acting as a principal resource providing advice, supervision, and training into a variety of disciplines.
• To lead clinical audits and undertake research for therapies in this specialist area.
• To establish and nurture strong working relationships with other members of the wider community team, social care and general practice.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation

Our mission is to be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision is to be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our approach to healthcare is founded on our four core values :

• Kind – we are caring, supporting and respectful to everyone
• Open – we are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair – we listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team – we work well together and with our communities

We employ almost 6,500 people from more than 80 nationalities and are fully committed to being an equal, diverse and inclusive employer. Our culture and values ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and that no job applicant or employee is disadvantaged at any stage of their journey.

We are also proud to be an Armed Forces Friendly organisation and welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists and families.

Working at NCM means becoming part of a dedicated team of clinical and support staff who are passionate about keeping people well and supporting wellbeing. If you share our values and are motivated by making a difference for our patients, we'd be delighted to receive your application

1. Manage a complex clinical caseload with autonomy, guided by policies, procedures, codes of practice and departmental working practices, guiding the patient’s treatment through your clinical expertise and clinical judgement.

2. Undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with a highly complex presentation, using investigative and advanced analytical skills and clinical reasoning including beyond the normal scope of practice.

3. Use highly developed specialist knowledge and experience to make a medical/therapeutic diagnosis of a patient’s condition and interpret clinical findings and documentation to formulate a comprehensive specialised programme of care, including decision making about the most appropriate treatment options.

4. Clinically supervise less experienced staff and students in the provision of patient care.

5. Provide planned and spontaneous expert advice to patients, staff, other disciplines, carers and relatives, where there may be conflicting evidence.

6. Organise access to appropriate treatment/opinion in response to clinical findings. E.g., other community health care workers.

7. Support the Principal lead and therapy manager to develop the Intermediate Care Service in line with patient need, national and local drivers and up to date clinical research and guidance.

8. Lead the co-ordination of patient care within the team, with a strong focus on patient experience and customer care.

Please see attached JD and PS for more details.