Team Leader Physiotherapist Inpatients

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job overview

We are looking for dynamic and highly skilled clinician experienced in all aspects of medical inpatient rehabilitation. A forward-thinking clinician with the skills to combine highly specialist clinical practice with innovation you will be committed to following best practice and the promotion of high-quality physiotherapy services.

Through your knowledge of emerging clinical advances within the speciality, you will be expected as part of the senior clinical inpatient team to advise the Operational Manager and Senior Management team to inform future service development.

Main duties of the job

The post is based in Nevill Hall Hospital but may support other sites within ABUHB if the service needs require. The post holder will clinically lead a team of static and rotational staff, HCSW and students. They will work closely with the clinical lead and band 7’s across the neighbourhood and ABUHB wide.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide training, education, supervision and appraisal for staff and students, locally and across the service. As part of the role, you will contribute to the development of professional practice and the transformation and evaluation of service delivery and support research and innovation agenda.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, those who have a disability or impairment or are from the LGBTQ+ community and those who are underrepresented within the Health Board.

Please note that we will not be accepting TEAMS interviews at this time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Person specification

Education, Qualifications, Training

• Diploma / degree in Physiotherapy
• Registered with HCPC
• Appropriate range of post graduate training
• Completion of Clinical Educator's course or equivalent

• MCSP
• MSc
• Active participation in relevant interest group
• Evidence of or willing to undertake completion of an appropriate advanced assessment, diagnostic and treatment course that is recognised/ accredited

Experience

• Significant experience at band 6 with appropriate experience within speciality applied forpeciality
• Senior postgraduate clinical experience encompassing complex case management
• Significant senior postgraduate experience requiring people management skills
• Experience of and commitment to leading clinical and organisational audit
• Evidence of supervising staff
• Previous leadership experience
• Evidence of having worked unsupervised at a senior level
• Experience of facilitating learning with undergraduate students

• Evidence of having participated in on-call and weekend duties where appropriate
• Evidence of change management in clinical and operational practice
• Experience of developing and implementing guidelines and standards
• Experience of and commitment to teaching locally at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Experience of working across multidisciplinary and multiagency boundaries
• Experience of representing the physiotherapy profession in public/ professional arena
• Experience of integrating user participation in service development
• Experience of presenting to a wider audience
• Experience of leading meetings
• Evidence of having worked in the UK as a HCPC registered physiotherapist

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to discuss clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
• The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
• The ability to demonstrate critical appraisal skills
• The ability to facilitate reflective practice and learning with others
• The ability to manage personnel issues
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other professionals, patients, and their families
• The ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
• Evidence of initiative
• Good organisational skills
• Good time management
• Able to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and it's implementation in physiotherapy practice.
• The ability to lead discussion on the NHS and challenges facing the physiotherapy service with specific reference to matters relating to ABUHB
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development sufficient to meet HCPC standards

• Awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
• IT literate
• Ability to communicate in Welsh

Other

• The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling as demanded by the job role
• Professional appearance
• The ability to adapt to changes in work routine
• Available for on-call and seven day working rotas where appropriate
• The ability to travel between sites within the health Board or patients' residences in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the post

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.