clinician Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 8a
- Part time
- Flexible working
Job overview
Therapies and Rehabilitation are seeking an innovative and creative AHP for a Clinical Lead post in Critical Care. This exciting role will offer clinical and strategic leadership to AHPs supporting this clinical area, across dietetics, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. The post is part time for one year, and will work jointly with an established part time Clinical Lead.
The Clinical Lead post supports existing AHP services to critical care, which includes in- and out-patient services across both sites. We are looking for a senior clinician in any of the above AHP professions who can offer advanced-level clinical skills and senior decision-making, quality improvement and service development support, reflecting national best-practice guidelines and local innovation. The post will act as a strategic link between the Therapies and Rehabilitation Directorate and Specialty Management Teams within Critical Care.
The post-holder must be able to offer strong, visible and accessible clinical leadership. They will contribute to teaching and training within the wider team, and will ensure services are developed in line with NUH’s vision, values and behaviours.
The postholder will be supported by Clinical Lead peers across our respective professions and clinical specialties, alongside therapy service managers and our Directorate Leadership Team.
Main duties of the job
This role will provide strategic clinical leadership in the management of patients under the care of NUH across Critical Care, and will contribute to direct patient care in the postholder’s clinical profession. Core responsibilities are spread over the four pillars of AHP practice: leadership; clinical practice; facilitated learning; evidence, research and development.
Please refer to job description and person specification for full details of the job.
As a key leadership role, it is critical that NUH values and behaviours are embedded in everyday practice.
Working for our organisation
As a large acute teaching hospital, NUH has a range of fantastic opportunities for staff to develop their careers within the NHS. Therapies and Rehabilitation is a supportive Directorate with a robust appraisal process and many learning opportunities.
The Therapies and Rehabilitation Directorate sits within the Clinical Support Division at NUH. We are a diverse pathway of over 700 AHPs and business/support staff, working together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to, led strategically by our Chief AHP. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists, physiotherapists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists. Practice Development Therapists support career development for all.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will be supported by Clinical Lead peers across our respective professions and clinical specialties, alongside therapy service managers and our Directorate Leadership Team.
Please see the attached full Job Description and Personal Specification for further specific details of this post.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Hons in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy or Dietetics or equivalent
- Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty preferably including research skills to a Master’s level.
- Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD
- Knowledge of National, Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Full HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Require highly advanced / theoretical / practical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills relevant to Critical Care pathways
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a broad range of services
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate highly complex information which may be sensitive or contentious to all concerned where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. psychosocial issues language barriers, speech problems, learning difficulties or where English is not the first language.
- Able to communicate effectively establishing and maintaining relationships
- Able to utilise persuasion, negotiation and reassurance skills to ensure agreement and co-operation.
- To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy.
- Ability to communicate and present highly complex information effectively, in written and verbal formats to individuals or groups
- Ability to motivate, train and teach own and other disciplines of staff.
- Able to influence Senior medical consultants, GP’s and Commissioners
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse, interpret and compare information e.g. interpreting results of investigations
- Ability to assess, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management, using highly specialist clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of treatment options.
- Ability to provide an expert ‘second opinion’ to patients with highly complex clinical conditions.
- Ability to assess and manage risk in relation to patient care and working environment.
- Ability to critically appraise research literature and together with the team, implement evidence based practice in order to deliver an effective service.
- To evaluate own clinical interventions and that of the team.
- Provide critical evaluation of service delivery and facilitate necessary change
- Ability to allocate limited resources in accordance with changing needs.
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload, by using planning, organisational and time management. This requires flexibility to work over a number of different settings.
- Ability to delegate effectively
- To contribute to the overall service delivery with the multidisciplinary team in own work section/ department/ directorate.
- To develop the Critical Care therapy service in relation to Trust objectives and National guidelines.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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Consent:
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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