Job summary
Employer heading
Team Lead Trauma Therapies
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
Come and join us! This is a great opportunity to become part of our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking, inclusive Therapy Team for Trauma and Orthopaedics at the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
You will lead the therapies teams working at the Major Trauma centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the trauma out-patient therapies teams at the John Radcliffe and Horton General Hospitals. You will work closely with other team leads for hand therapy, pain rehabilitation, in-patient orthopaedics, Advanced practice and MSK out-patients.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the trauma therapies team in conjunction with the Head of Physiotherapy – [1]JR in-patient trauma, [2]JR out-patient trauma, [3]fracture clinic & [4]Horton General Hospital out-patient/ trauma.
- To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the physiotherapy and other clinical staff whilst maintaining a caseload of highly complex patients as an autonomous practitioner within the major trauma service.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To demonstrate competence against the 4 pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice.
- To ensure efficient day to day running and evaluation with particular emphasis on integration of the inpatient and out-patient programmes.
- To provide high quality clinical input for complex trauma patients.
- In conjunction with the T&O head of physiotherapy to ensure excellence of training across the organisation.
- To be a member of the Senior Therapy Management team, contributing to planning and policy development in the physiotherapy department, and to deputise for the Head of Physiotherapy as required.
- The balance of clinical : management time to be evenly split with 50% clinical in any of the 4 designated areas.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Qualified and HCPC registered physiotherapist
- 5 years or more Trauma or orthopaedic experience
- Msc or working towards / equivelent
- Evidence of involvement in Quality improvement, audit or research
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience leading a team
- Experience of working in MTC environment
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Professor Karen Barker
- Job title
- Head of T&O Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 738080
- Additional information
Lynne Hazel - 01865 738079
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