Job summary
An exciting opportunity to be part of something new and innovative in Community.

We are recruiting a band 6 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join the Hospital at Home team within South Tees and help support some of the initiatives being implemented in the community.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust Community Collaborative are working hard to improve the offer of community services ensuring that the local population across Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland receive support in their own homes. As a result there has been changes to service provision recently meaning that services can be delivered by the right member of staff in the right place at the right time.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country, close to the North Yorkshire Moors and within easy reach of Newcastle and Leeds. It comprises two acute hospitals, James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital Northallerton and a number of community hospitals and community services. Therapy services at South Tees NHS trust are also part of the wider Integrated Therapy service in Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role

If you are applying for a secondment post, you must seek authorisation from your manager who will go through the secondment policy with you.

Main duties of the job
You will also work closely with the Home First and UCR therapy teams to help step up and step down patients to help prevent deconditioning and unnecessary admissions to hospital.

The post holder will be expected to have experience in both acute and community care, and have gained experience across a variety of specialities to help manage patients with various acute and long term conditions. As services are delivered across the Redcar and Cleveland Locality there is an expectation that you will have an ability to work flexibly and travel independently within the community.

Support and in-service training will be provided to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding of the role. This post offers development in clinical and leadership skills and the post holder will be supported to attend relevant post graduate courses.

We have an established and comprehensive training programme and our staff have £1000 allocated funding each to support in their CPD. There is also an expectation to actively participate in audit and research and the Hospital has close links with both the University of Teesside and Durham University.

About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Qualifications & Training

• To hold a Diploma or Degree awarded by professional body
• Registered as fit to practice by professional body, e.g. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development
• To have completed the physical assessment and disease management skills course (level 6) or be working towards this within the first 12 months.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to degree equivalent level.

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management
• Participate in regular clinical supervision
• Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Able to assume additional managerial responsibility and prioritise this accordingly
• Demonstrates competent IT and system skills.
• Effective people management skills
• Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model.
• Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service.
• Evidence of a flexible approach
• Willingness to be challenged.
• Ability to work across localities.
• Ability to work flexibly

Experience

• Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skills relevant to role
• Able to evidence team leadership experience
• To display effective communication skills, communicating complex, sensitive and contentious information to others
• Demonstrates an ability to prioritise and co-ordinate the workload of the team to ensure fairness and equality
• Demonstrates excellent organisational/ delegation/ prioritisation skills
• Demonstrates evidence of teaching skills to a range of professionals.
• Evidence of continual professional development.
• Evidence of MDT working

Desirable

• Evidence of post graduate training/ experience in leadership.
• Experience of Change Management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.