Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Physiotherapy Service Lead / Integrated Therapy Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 34 hours per week
- Job ref
- 179-7420313-I
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Main Community Bases for ICPS in Suffolk ( Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich)
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich (Flexible)
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Service Lead Children's Community Physiotherapy/ Integrated Therapy Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Due to retirement we have an exciting and rare opportunity for a highly specialist paediatric physiotherapist to join Integrated Community Paediatric Services(ICPS) in the role of Physiotherapy Service Lead. The post holder will take responsibility for the delivery of the Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Service, the Paediatric Community Orthotic service and Therapy Focus Suffolk and will also support management of integrated therapy teams working within specific special schools and child development pathways.
This post is an integral member of the Integrated Community Paediatric Services management team and will also lead on projects and delegated areas of responsibility within community services. The post will be based in one of our core bases in Ipswich or Bury St Edmunds with travel expected across the county to support service delivery and management. The successful candidate will be dynamic and able to develop positive and productive relationships with our core partners across children’s and young people's services in Suffolk.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be leading a large countywide team supporting children, young people and families( 0-19) with primarily long term neuro- developmental conditions. The role requires a good level of highly specialist clinical paediatric PT experience & skills coupled with skills in management and leadership.
Knowledge and understanding of professional and governance issues related to Physiotherapy, Community Children's services, SEND and Safeguarding is critical to the post.
You will be working in a multi agency and multi disciplinary context developing collaborative working relationships at a clinical, operational and strategic level.
The post holder will be leading service developments and should have experience of leading innovative change.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· The Service Lead Paediatric Physiotherapy/Integrated Therapy Manager is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of their portfolio of high-quality specialist clinical services (Countywide Physiotherapy Team, Therapy Focus Suffolk Service and specific integrated therapy teams)
· To be responsible and accountable for a countywide Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Team (36 staff) including recruitment, budgets, resources & development. To facilitate CPD, performance management and appraisal (10 direct reports).
· Service Lead Paediatric Physiotherapy/ Integrated Therapy Manager is responsible for delivering key quality, performance and financial plans, achieving key service improvements within Integrated Community Paediatric Services and line managing designated complex pathway leads and highly specialist PTs
· To work with the Integrated Community Paediatric Services (ICPS) Associate Director to provide a safe, efficient and cost effective patient centred Paediatric service throughout ICPS and deliver national and local KPIs, targets, standards and contractual requirements of commissioners.
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Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
- Masters level clinical/managerial qualification or equivalent level of highly specialist PT and leadership experience
- Registered health care professional with extensive knowledge and experience of paediatric services
- Significant evidence of postgraduate personal development (e.g. diploma, management certificate, regular short courses etc).
- Knowledge and understanding of children’s service agendas and government policy relevant to children and young people.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate management & leadership qualifications and training
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of management of Paediatric Physiotherapy services at a senior level
- Extensive experience and understanding of professional and governance issues relating to Physiotherapy
- Highly developed specialist clinical skills and experience relating to Paediatric Physiotherapy practice
- Significant experience in the development of strategic and service objectives, and performance standards
- Extensive experience of working in a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary context, developing collaborative working relationships at an operational and strategic level.
- Experience of leading innovative change
- Experience of successfully managing large budgets, financial planning for services
- Proven success in developing/reconfiguring services
- Experience of consultation and involvement of service user groups, parents, carers, children and young people.
- Experience of business planning techniques, compiling business cases, developing operational plans and performance standards.
- General Management theory and practice in relation to the NHS, including quality, financial and performance management, HR management and service/business development.
- Change management/service improvement techniques.
- Significant operational management experience, in a complex organization
- Experience of analysing and interpreting information to identify and manage variances in performance and identifying solutions to deliver improvement.
- Ability to interpret and implement national policies & guidelines
- Demonstrable experience of working autonomously and making complex management decisions
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the NHS locally and key policy issues that affect business performance.
- Experience of designing/ improving business systems and processes.
- Project management experience.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- First class interpersonal skills with ability to gain and sustain credibility with clinicians, managers and senior leadership teams.
- Highly skilled in influencing and persuading others to deliver in the context of organizational operational goals and strategic objectives.
- Able to prioritise and manage the on-going work of services Advanced verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to respond according to the needs of the situation
- Able to negotiate successfully at strategic level.
- Advanced interpersonal skills and collaborative working approach to inspire and motivate
- Able to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing.
- Advanced ability to facilitate, influence and shape service/situations and developments
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
- Well-developed skills in Computer literacy, including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Effective planning & decision-making skills. and/or projects.
- Results orientated and delivery against targets and deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Proven skills in developing new and innovative services and solutions.
- Political awareness – ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.
- Capability to stand in for Associate director of ICPS when required.
- Commercial acumen.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Desire to succeed and make a real impact on the quality of care and efficiency of services provided for children, young people and families.
- Committed to achievement of overall ICPS and Trust performance and willing to challenge practice/behaviours that undermine the need to work as one team within ICPS and the Trust.
- Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
- Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurised environment and is motivated by stretching targets and achieving continuous improvement.
- Committed to living the Trust’s values, willing to inspire others to act in accordance with those values and motivated to use those values to drive business performance and service development.
- Comfortable in challenging traditional approaches and enjoys winning support for new ideas.
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
- Christine Hawley
- Job title
- Service Lead Children's Community Physiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 321220
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