Job overview

Be at the heart of our community!

We are looking for a dynamic and patient focused individual to join our multidisciplinary team in the Rehabilitation unit at Herts and Essex Community Hospital, Oxford and Cambridge Ward in Bishops Stortford. Herts and Essex has 32 rehabilitation beds and takes patients on one of these pathways: 17 day Rehab pathway, Non-Weight Bearing pathway, Complex pathway.

This post is a job share with a Band 7 Physiotherapy Team Lead already doing 3 days a week. You will work alongside the Physiotherapy Team Lead, Occupational Therapy Team Lead and Ward Manager to provide leadership for the inpatient unit, managing your team, ensuring patient flow, and identifying and taking forward quality improvement.

You will deliver high quality, highly specialist clinical care to patients within scope of professional practice. Assisting Physiotherapy staff in the advanced assessment, formulation of clinical diagnoses and treatment of highly complex physical and psychological conditions.

You will work closely with the Lead Nurse, Clinical Lead and other members of the Senior Team to continue to develop the service. You will be required to travel to various locations within Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust to attend meetings that cannot be held virtually. 

We will consider applicants who wish to work full or part time and we offer flexible working patterns.  

Main duties of the job

You will provide clinical leadership within the unit, ensuring all members of the therapy team deliver high quality clinical care within scope of professional practice and work within the competency framework.

You will support the therapists with managing their caseload, goals setting and meeting the estimated discharge dates to maintain patient flow through the unit.

To ensure patient flow you will have a close working relationship with the In Reach Team and social workers.

You will support and continually develop your therapy team, encouraging training, managing sickness, addressing performance issues, and undertake recruitment of new staff.

Through audits and feedback you will work with the OT therapy lead and ward manager, clinical quality lead and senior operational team to take forward continuous improvement.

The therapy team works closely with the nursing team. There is a lead OT and ward manager on the unit and together you will lead the 32 bed unit. Herts and Essex, Oxford and Cambridge Ward is one of 3 community hospitals in HCT and the leadership teams of these units come together regularly to discuss performance and continuous improvement. Clinical supervision is readily available and actively encouraged. The senior leadership team are visible and approachable. There are opportunities for continued professional development with leadership courses/one off study days/forums available. 

Working for our organisation

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust 

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities  

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages 

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.