Clinical Team Lead - Early Years and NICU | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2025 |
| Location: | Burnley, BB10 2PQ |
| Company: | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7186949/435-D058-25 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic band 7 Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover a maternity leave.
East Lancashire Hospitals Paediatric Physiotherapy Department are dedicated to enabling children and young people to fulfill their physical potential in every aspect of their lives. We provide both acute inpatient service to the paediatric medical wards and the Neonatal Unit, as well as community services managing a range of short and long term neurological, developmental, genetic orthopaedic, MSK and respiratory needs.
The post holder will team lead the early years and Neonatal pathway, providing staff support and service development, as well as clinically delivering Physiotherapy care on the Neonatal Unit and provide follow up community care.
You will be supported to continue to learn and develop your clinical knowledge and skills, alongside opportunities to develop leadership skills. Previous knowledge and experience is required, however additional training, development and support will be offered throughout.
Informal visits / discussion are encouraged and can be booked by contacting Nikki Gannon, Clinical and Operational Service Lead at communitytherapiesadmin@elht.nhs.uk. Band 5 to 6 development roles will be considered.
Working within the multidisciplinary teams, act as the Clinical Lead for the designated service area providing a high level of clinical expertise with regard to highly specialist assessment skills and interactions within a defined patient group.
Provide operational and line management to a designated team in the delivery of a highly effective, safe and personal service, delivered around the needs of individual patients/carers as described by agreed goals/outcome measures and within defined clinical pathways.
An active member of the leadership structure, the postholder will contribute toward the strategic operational and clinical development of the service. Provide teaching and highly specialist support in the management of complex conditions, educating other healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders. The service operating hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm. There is a requirement to work on call.
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area.
We employ over 7,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work
COMMUNICATION
1.Communicate with professionals, patients and families/carers in a professional manner and appropriate to the individual using a range of mediums and techniques including letters, reports, groups, verbal, emails and onward referral.
2. Act as an advocate on behalf of patients.
3. Deal with challenging situations using conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
4. Provide early intervention of HR issues such as performance, disputes, behaviour, sickness etc with the support of HR and operational management.
5. Advise and support your team in adapting communication skills to meet individual patient’s needs.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
1. Ensure compliance with mandatory training for yourself and your team.
2. Take responsibility for own professional development and the development of your team using a training needs analysis and competency framework across a variety of settings and patient groups and clinical pathways.
3. Provide regular supervision and feedback to your team to facilitate self-development.
4. Plan, organise and deliver training to students, assistants, junior staff and colleagues including wider multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as required.
5. Lead on and participate in research and development activities as required.
6. Provide training to other health care professions, both undergraduate and post graduate level.
7. Review, update and produce guidelines/procedures and educational resources that reflect national guidance/clinical standards and evidence-based practice.
ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Work closely with the operational service lead, Head of Service and clinical leads to interpret and implement Trust and Directorate targets, national guidelines and AHP strategies within your specialist area.
2. Actively contribute to the development and delivery of the Therapies Directorate and service level business and improvement plans.
3. Undertake line management duties including rostering, job planning, appraisals, clinical supervision, approval of travel expenses, sickness monitoring and support etc.
4. Undertake a team leader role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the designated clinical service.
5. Identify areas for, lead and implement, continual improvement, underpinned by evidence-based practice.
6. Lead on the performance management of the designated clinical team across a range of Quality, Delivery, Finance and People measures.
7. Lead on the recruitment and retention of staff, ensuring competency frameworks are in place, supporting staff through probationary and preceptorship with training and feedback. Facilitate the ongoing development of your team and facilitate rotations of clinical staff where appropriate,
8. Assist the service in involving service users, their families and carers in service evaluation and associated developments.
9. Be responsible for deputising for the Clinical and Operational Service leads.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Ensure you and your team adhere to the HCPC standards of conduct and professional proficiency.
2. Understand and demonstrate the need to respect and uphold the rights dignity and values and autonomy of every service user.
3. Understand your role, and that of your team’s, in the process of promoting and maintaining health and wellbeing for patients, self and others.
4. Ensure you and your team operate within the codes of practice outlined in the Trust Behavioural Framework.
5. Undertake the measurement and evaluation of the work of you and your team and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with colleagues. This will include leading on and participating in research and development.
6. Support staff and patients with protected characteristics, to be a role model and ally in challenging and eliminating discrimination of all forms.
7. Undertake as directed the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects. To manage and undertake research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of multi-disciplinary team audit and departmental research initiatives.
8. Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, clinical interest groups, peer review, ICS wide review and standardisation of services and professional development initiatives.
9. Promote awareness of the professional role within the Trust and externally.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Jul 2025