Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-CC7859108
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Netherton Health Centre (Trust wide)
- Town
- Bootle
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Team Leader
Band 7
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The Rehabilitation at Home (RAH) Team supports adult patients following fracture neck of femur surgery from the Orthopaedic wards at Aintree Hospital. They aim to maximise the potential and capability of patients to achieve independence through intensive, short term therapy interventions, delivered in the home.
The service provides Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Therapy Assistant input in the home and loans equipment to patients for short term use.
RAH team covers the Liverpool city boundary, South Sefton and Knowsley working in close collaboration with Orthopaedic wards at Aintree Hospital as well as other services and stakeholders.
The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the department and the provision of the leadership and management to the team.
The post holder will ensure the delivery of high quality, effective, efficient, co-ordinated and responsive care to the patients / clients. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment
of systems and processes.
The post holder will collaborate with the service lead to support service development and modernisation in line with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s objectives.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership, management, communication to and for the clinical team.
Ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients.
Ensure the delivery of quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes in working in collaboration with other services/stakeholders.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring that the team works proactively providing a responsive and a high-quality service to its clients.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical expertise and knowledge to the team, demonstrating evidence based clinical decision making when managing complex situations.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Monitor clinical activity and performance of the team ensuring that it reflects the core objectives.
Work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development. Provide reports and data that supports the monitoring of team’s performance.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Undertake personal development plans, supervisions, ensure team’s compliance with mandatory training and mentor developing staff.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients in a variety of forums, professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the clinical team.
Ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.
Ensure the delivery of quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes in working in collaboration with other services/stakeholders.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring that the team works proactively providing a responsive and a high-quality service to its clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical expertise and knowledge to the team, demonstrating evidence based clinical decision making when managing complex situations.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Monitor clinical activity and performance of the team ensuring that it reflects the core objectives of the service.
Work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development. Provide reports and data that supports the monitoring of team’s performance.
Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Undertake personal development plans (PDP), supervisions, ensure team’s compliance with mandatory training and mentor developing staff within the clinical environment. Initiate training and development of team members.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Deliver holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs and consider a range of interventions’ options with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students. Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
* The post holder shall as necessarily provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Appropriate prescriber – if required within the role
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Registration with relevant professional body.
Desirable criteria
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi -agency working
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Understanding how other agencies work.
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
- IT literate.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills.
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Research Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Iwona Kurdziel-Quirk
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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