Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner

at  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner to be part of the Integrated Care- Therapy leadership team in Sheffield.
This role will work alongside an established operational team and will report to the Assistant Head of Integrated Community Care, Lead for Community Occupational and / Physiotherapy. The service has recently established clinical specialist posts at band 7 level; the successful post holder will be instrumental in embedding this role, coaching and developing both our Clinical Specialists and the wider staff group, and providing expert clinical practise with advanced clinical reasoning.
Sheffield Community Integrated Therapy is “proud” to deliver high-quality therapeutic community rehabilitation. The successful candidate will be someone who has excellent compassionate leadership skills, is person-centred and can develop relationships with all stakeholders to deliver “what matters” to the patient.
The successful candidate will be able to lead the care of complex frail older adults and those with specialist respiratory needs, and ensure developing services consider the advanced practise therapy needs of such complex patients.
Continuous service improvement will be an integral part of the role, leading evaluation and audit within the specialism, and ensuring compliance with national and local guidelines and frameworks are met.
The post is advertised at 30 hours per week, however there may be opportunity to increase this.

THE SKILLS AND QUALITIES NEEDED FOR THIS POST:

To utilise highly Specialist Autonomous Professional skills to assess and manage complex frail patients with multiple pathologies including respiratory diseases.
To support the development of new pathways of care, ensuring governance ,national and local standards are met working with business partners and operational leads to design and embed services an example of such work being the development of tracheostomy care.
Provide education and leadership to community services, maintaining staffs competencies and enabling improvement to ensure high quality clinical therapy continues to be delivered.
To communicate with the clinical team in a sensitive professional manner using a positive approach to problem solve complex issues and challenges.
Work with the operational leadership team to manage staff and ensure HR policies and processes are followed.
To lead the evaluation and development of Clinical Practice ,providing leadership across the speciality to critically appraise current practice.
To build relationships across the clinical network, co-ordinating, integrating and improving care pathways and processes across teams, professions and/or sites.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Integrated Community Care is one of three Directorates within the Combined Community and Acute Care Group - it supports people in their own homes and communities by providing high quality health services promoting independence and improving quality of life. The services are delivered by interdisciplinary teams, therapists and district nurses working in partnership to deliver, “what matters to the person” in a patient centred therapy / care plan.
The teams work at neighbourhood level, integrating with social care and voluntary services, developing relationships to meet the longer term anticipatory care needs of individuals.
Relationships with stakeholders based on compassionate and collaborative leadership enable the delivery of high quality rehabilitation.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria

Please refer the Job description for details