Clinical Service Lead - Falls, Stroke and Neuro-Rehabilitation

Job summary
This is a great opportunity for an experienced and talented Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join the senior management team at Ealing Community Partners. This is a full time Clinical Service Lead position where you will be responsible for the day to day management and leadership of our multi-disciplinary community Falls and Neuro-Rehabilitation teams. The role will include ensuring the delivery of high quality, personalised and accessible services for patients, in line with commissioned service levels.

The post holder will be required to engage and empower clinical staff in the provision of high quality care, developing clinical expertise within the teams to assess and enhance the quality of service in line with best practice.

Main duties of the job
As Clinical Service Lead, you will provide direct line management for the Falls and Stroke/Neuro-Rehabilitation teams, based across 2 locations within the Ealing borough - Ealing Day Treatment Centre in Southall and Clayponds Hospital in South Ealing. The postholder will require strong clinical leadership skills to develop staff within the teams, providing supervision and appraisal in line with Trust policies,

As a registered therapist, you will need knowledge and experience of delivering neuro-rehabilitation in the community to support patients with long term neurological conditions and those recovering from stroke. The postholder will need a pro-active approach to increasing team efficiency and effectiveness, and will be required to work collaboratively with other rehabilitation leads.

About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Job responsibilities
Please see the job description. Key responsibilities include: Leading and managing the multidisciplinary Community Stroke and Neuro rehabilitation team, and the Falls team for Ealing. Responsibility for the day to day operational management and service delivery Acting as a role model in expert practice facilitating and supporting the delivery of effective patient care. Developing and monitor clinical outcome metrics for designated areas proposing and implementing improvements where they are required. Acting as an ambassador for the service developing robust communication strategies that provide all stakeholders with the opportunity to be engaged in service developments and informed on progress. Developing partnership opportunities and integrated working with all health and social care providers ensuring personalised quality care for patients. Ensuring high standards of clinical practice through education and training to staff and students. Participating in the transformation of services within Ealing Community Rehabilitation.

Qualifications

• Registered therapist with current HCPC registration
• Relevant therapy degree or equivalent
• Post-registration qualification and evidence of continuing CPD

Experience

• Extensive post-registration relevant clinical experience at a senior level
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of undertaking complex assessments and providing care to people with rehabilitation potential
• Experience in managing, auditing and evaluating clinical services
• Experience of initiating and implementing changes to services
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies and professionals and across organizational boundaries
• Proven ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision
• Experience of participating in Clinical supervision
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies and professionals and across organizational boundaries

Knowledge

• Knowledge across a range of long-term conditions
• Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures
• Knowledge of clinical governance processes, risk assessment and personal accountability etc
• Knowledge of current NHS organisational structures and policy initiatives
• Knowledge of resource management

Abilities

• Ability to communicate highly complex information both verbally and in writing
• Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence
• Able to teach in formal and informal settings

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).